Making pots with your own hands. Materials, methods, recommendations

Flowers in the house are always a beauty and a cosiness, especially when they grow in beautiful pots or pots. An original highlight, giving an additional charm to the design of the room, can become pots, with their own hands made and attracting the gaze of everyone who enters your home.

Now you can buy everything that the soul likes, there would be a desire and means. But things look much more attractive, which are made in accordance with their imagination, in addition, it is a great leisure time together with children, their involvement in creative development. Such crafts will become a source of pride, and for a long time when you look at them the mood will increase, because they are charged with your own positive energy.

What can you make a pot with your own hands? Yes, of everything that comes to hand and even recyclable. All kinds of pails from ice cream, paint, ordinary glass jars, clay pots , old suitcases, etc. And all this rubbish can turn into colorful decorative pots, and completely unique. The ability to weave macrame in this case will do the best - made from synthetic strands of pots with their own hands look great, they are well washed, suitable for use inside and outside the room or in the garden.

An ordinary clay pot decorated with colored braid, unnecessary buttons, beads, stones, shells, seeds becomes truly exclusive. And decorated with colors - this is already a kind of a masterpiece - it's impossible to buy anywhere, it exists in one single copy. Produce a variety of pots with their own hands. They are weaved from rods, they are made of planks, crocheted, wrapped with various materials, including a relief inner layer from the box of sweets (golden and brown look better). Consider the simplest and most original way of decorating flower pots.

Suspended pot with own hands, made in decoupage technique

For this venture, the following items must be prepared:

• Plastic bucket;
• scissors;
• Brush;
• Rope (2 m);
• PVA glue;
• Acrylic lacquer;
• A wooden (metal) ring;
• napkin;
• A piece of foam rubber;
• Acrylic paint white.

Kashpo hanging by own hands. Manufacturing techniques

1. On a suitable bucket (from sweet wool, ice cream, paint), first apply acrylic paint with a piece of foam or sponge in several layers, until the bucket is completely white. Layers are applied gradually, giving a complete drying out to the previous one and applying paint as thin as possible.
2. Pick up a napkin with such a coloring that the future of the pots fit well into the overall interior. Carefully not to tear the napkin, separate the white layer from the colored one.
3. From the napkin cut a piece to the size of the bucket.
4. Glue PVA diluted with water in a proportion of 1: 1.
5. A colored napkin is applied to the bucket.
6. Brush over the napkin, starting from the middle to the edges, apply diluted glue. A wet cloth immediately sticks. Watch that no air bubbles remain, lifting the napkin and gluing it again.
7. After gluing a napkin, the flowerpots can be decorated with crystal paste, contour or glitter.
8. Acrylic lacquer is applied over the pasted napkin. Also consistently, waiting for the previous layer to dry out.
9. The pot must be hung, so the rope cut in half is passed through the holes in the rim of the bucket, made with sharp scissors or knife, after attaching the rope to the ring. Knots are fastened on the inside of the pots.
10. Suspended pots are ready, it remains only to put a pot of your favorite flower in it.