Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Florida Gardening: DIY Vase

Team leader, The Wooden Bee, has a passion for gardening and nature. She blogs about gardening with her children and recently shared this easy DIY vase idea!

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We love upcycling materials around the house. One weekend while playing in the backyard, the little gardeners gathered up a bunch of sticks from our rain tree.  We decided to glue them to a washed tin can to make a little backyard vase.
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Materials:

tin can, or other recycled container

sticks

hot glue

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We left the sticks different lengths to help arrange and hold the flowers.
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We doubled up the stick layers to cover the aluminum.  You could also paint the tin can for a little extra color to show through.
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We've been enjoying flowers in our eco-friendly little vase all week!

5 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous! Wish I had a rain tree in my yard.

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  2. Bee,
    This is so adorable! Looks expensive too! Great project for my nephew when he arrives! Thanks for sharing!
    Rebecca

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  3. Oh I will defintely be doing this one! How awesome. Thank you for great tips!

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  4. What a great Earth Day project! Awesome!

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