How to Make Flower Pots From Newspaper
Children and adults can make newspaper flower pots. This green craft allows you to reuse newspaper and teach children about gardening. Making newspaper flower pots is also an excellent craft for a classroom. The newspaper plant pots can be set directly into the garden when the threat of frost is over for the spring season. Or, if you prefer, they can be placed in your indoor or outdoor planter, such as a deck planter or concrete planter.
Instructions
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Make a Newspaper Flower Pot
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Spread four newspaper sheets on a work table. Measure the width of a strip at the height you desire for the flower pot, add 2 inches to this. Draw a line to mark this strip. Select a "pot maker," a can or jar to serve as a mold for your newspaper flower pot.
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Cut down the entire length of the newspaper sheets using the drawn line as your guide.
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Place the pot maker (the empty can or jar) on to the strip of newspaper with the bottom of can level with paper edge.
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To form your newspaper flower pot, wrap the end of the strip of newspaper layers around the pot maker and roll it across the work surface, holding firmly.
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Carefully push the paper roll down to sit evenly with the top of the can. Your newspaper flower pot is starting to take shape!
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Loosely press in the edges of the newspaper against the bottom of the pot maker.
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Set pot maker up on work surface, press firmly down and twist hard several times to mold the newspaper against the container bottom.
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Stand the newspaper flower pot up to make sure it can stand alone. The flower pot is now ready to be filled with potting soil. Plant a seed or flower seedling in the flower pot.
Decorate Your Newspaper Flower Pot
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Place the pot maker back inside the newspaper flower pot. Mix up papier-mache paste and tear an additional sheet of newspaper into strips.
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Dip strips of newspaper into mache mixture. Turn newspaper flower pot upside down. Apply moistened strips to the paper pot until it is entirely coated. Let dry thoroughly.
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Remove pot maker from hardened newspaper flower pot. Paint the flower pot with nontoxic paint.
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Poke three to five small holes in the bottom of the dry painted flower pot for drainage.
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Tips & Warnings
Plain newspaper flower pots can be placed directly into a flower bed or can be placed into an indoor or outdoor planter.
There is a plant pot maker on the market that is a two-piece mold for an easier tool.
Set newspaper flower pots into trays to keep water from leaking out.
Resources
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