How to Make Pop Can Flowers

Hurry and finish that pop you are drinking, because you will want to make these adorable flowers made from recycled pop cans. Decorate your yard and garden with these adorable daisies and sunflowers and enjoy the compliments of your neighbors. Recycling pop cans into flowers is a great way to beautify our world rather than dirty our landfills. Spend an afternoon crafting these pop can flowers and have them blooming proudly in your yard by nightfall.

Things You'll Need

• 3 Pop cans per flower
• White matte spray paint or primer
• Yellow acrylic enamel paint
• Brown acrylic enamel paint
• Black acrylic enamel paint
• Green acrylic enamel paint
• Kitchen utility scissors
• Wire cutters
• Craft wire
• Hammer
• Nail
• 24-inch long 1-inch by 2-inch board

Instructions

1. Cut the top from a pop can using the scissors. Discard the top.

2. Cut down the side of the can to just above the bottom. Repeat and cut approximately every inch from the top edge down.

3. Bend the strips down flat, creating the petals of the flower.

4. Round the ends of the pop can strips for daisy petals or cut the ends into a point for the sunflower petals.

5. Repeat Steps 1 through 4 for the second layer of petals using a second can.

6. Spray both sides of the flower layers with the white matte spray paint or primer. Allow to dry.

7. Cut the top from another pop can. Discard the top. Cut the side open, then cut the side from the bottom of the can.

8. Sketch two leaf shapes on the side of the can and cut them out.

9. Hammer four holes in the bottom edge of the leaves. Hammer four holes in the can bottom--like button holes for the flower center.

10. Paint the two layers of petals yellow on both sides using yellow acrylic enamel paint for a sunflower. Allow the paint to dry. If making the daisy, leave the petals white.

11. Paint the center of the flower yellow for the daisy or brown for the sunflower. Allow the paint to dry.

12. Layer the two petal pieces slightly off center and insert the pop can center into the center of the petals. Poke the nail through the center holes as a guide and hammer through both layers of the flower petals. Sew craft wire through the holes, attaching the layers together. Twist the wire ends around the top of the 1-inch by 2-inch board.

13. Paint both sides of the leaves green and allow to dry. Sew craft wire through the leaf holes and attach to the 1-inch by 2-inch board below the flower.

Tips & Warnings

• Experiment with different colors to match your house or to create a colorful display in your garden.