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Give dads something to smile about this Father’s Day with these DIY pasta planters! While working on this project, we’d been calling them “papa pasta planters” and, really, that’s exactly what they are! If you’re as big a fan of pasta-based crafts as we are, you likely have some fun shaped noodles in your stash perfect for this project. If not, this is your excuse to go find some at the supermarket or local specialty food store!
And the crazy thing is that some of the less traditional shapes don’t end up looking like pasta at all once they’re painted, don’t you think? For this project, we used our handy set of Apple Barrel paint. We went for a bright and colorful look, but wouldn’t these be neat painted all white or grey? They’d almost look like stone! Keep reading for all our tips and tricks below.
Step 1
Begin by painting the outside of your terra cotta pots. We also chose to paint the top couple inches of the inside of the pots too, but you can leave this unpainted if you prefer. Let dry completely.
Step 2
Time to make some silly faces! Gather up all the pasta you have and start playing with the different shapes to form faces. The possibilities are endless! Farfalle makes excellent bow ties while radiatore can look just like a mustache. If you’re in the market to increase your pasta collection, we suggest checking at specialty grocery stores for the widest variety. Whatever noodles you pick, lay them out as you like on your work surface and give each one a coat of paint. Let dry completely.
Step 3
Once the painted pot and pasta are dry, use tacky glue (or a hot glue gun) to attach the features onto the planter. If using tacky glue like we did, you’ll want to leave the pot horizontal as it dries so that the pasta doesn’t slide off. If you have an empty bowl or similar to rest the pot in to prevent it from rolling around, that tends to work best. Allow to dry for several hours. If you plan to use the planter inside only, you’re ready to put your new plant inside! If you’d like the planter to be weatherproof, apply a coat of Mod Podge Outdoor to seal everything in.
Happy crafting!
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After crafting some wooden moths and dragonflies, I knew I needed to throw a summer garden party, and make some matching cupcake toppers! All you have to do is trade out the wooden body and head for Styrofoam, and add some Glitterific! These would also be fun for a bug bash, and the colors could easily be swapped for a more masculine or gender-neutral scheme.
Any budding entomologist would be thrilled with some moth toppers, and the kids could make the wooden bugs as a party craft, or take one home as a favor – along with a butterfly net and magnifying glass. Outdoor parties can be so simple, and nature is the perfect backdrop. Just add watermelon, a kiddie pool or sprinkler, cupcakes, and bug toppers!
• Large Styrofoam egg
• 1” Styrofoam ball
• 24 GA (.51 mm) black vinyl coated bead wire
• Wood shapes (raindrops)
• Tacky glue
• FolkArt Acrylic Paint (black, and colors of your choice)
• FolkArt Glitterific Acrylic Paint
• Scissors
• Sponge brush
• Paint brush
• Toothpick
• Extra-long toothpick
• Wood glue
Step 1
Paint your Styrofoam egg in the color of your choice, and allow to dry. Next, paint a coat of Glitterific in a coordinating color, and allow to dry.
Step 2
Paint two large wooden raindrops in the color of your choice, and two medium wooden raindrops in a second color. Allow to dry.
Step 3
Use a sponge brush to paint your Styrofoam ball in black acrylic paint.
Step 4
Use wood glue to glue a medium wooden raindrop to the bottom of a large raindrop, with the points lined up, and a sliver of the medium raindrop showing on the side. Glue the second pair of raindrops together, mirroring the first set.
Step 5
Use a toothpick to paint small lines around the bottom edge of the large raindrops. Next, paint lines, shapes, and dots that mirror each other on each wooden raindrop “wing”.
Step 6
Use tacky glue to attach the black head to the narrow end of the egg. Place a large dot of glue on the bottom of the narrow end of each wing, and attach the wings to the egg body – with the narrow ends near the head, and fanned out just a bit.
Step 7
Cut two 1” pieces of black wire, and stick them in the top of the head to look like antennae.
Step 8
Poke the tip of an extra-long toothpick in the bottom of your moth’s body. You may want to make some of them stick into the “belly”, and others in the “tail” end, for some variety when you place them in cupcakes.
Your moth toppers are superfly! Happy crafting! :)
