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Garden, Seed Packets & Yard Crafts

Ladybug Gloves
submitted by Kristin Alberts

Supplies:
1 pair of gardening gloves....I use the ones with patterns...such as flowers or leaves
red fabric paint
black fabric paint

Put a small glob of red paint on the glove (the size of a ladybug)...let that dry and then take your black fabric paint and draw the lines and dots....now you have a cute little lady bug on the gloves.
 

Simple Birdfeeder
(made from stuff around the house)

This spring craft is useful as well as being charming!  Cut the birdhouse shape from scrap 2" wood (or buy a pre-made one), Find an old pie pan, glue house into pan (or use screws from bottom of pan), cut out a couple of stars from thin wood or thin metal (carefully)! Paint as needed, add wires for hanging all of your goodies!  Add a bird if wanted, hang from a tree, add some birdseed, sit back and enjoy the birds!
 
 
 

Stepping Stones
submitted by Jessie

I used the tops from the large containers of Ice-cream, Baskin Robins or any ice-cream store have them in their dumpster, though it's so much easier to ask if you could have the tops and it's the right size with no cutting and it pops out  without any problem, and you may just get enough for all your stones in one stop.  On my first visit to the ice-cream store I got 15 tops from the trash and the guy wanted to open another couple that were running low in the case, said he would be more careful taking the tops off, all
in all I came home with 22 tops and it took about an hour out of my day.

Stepping Stones
submitted by Patti

e used QuickCrete (sp) sand mortar mix to do our stones.  Then I used patio paint to put each of the kids names on the one that had their footprints on them.  Then on one I wrote Footprints in Time and put a vine on it.  Sealed them with concete sealer he got at the concrete plant. Any plastic will work as a mold, we even poured some out on the ground and free-form shaped them, then just picked them up and moved them when dried. The ones that we made to put outside our back door we made with one of those
commercial stone shape molds and added cement dye to the mix.  Made gray, black, red, and brown.  Can get the Quick Crete and dye at Lowes or Home Depot or probably any home center.

Seed Packet Birdhouses
submitted by Barbie

Materials needed: 6 flower seed packets ( I was able to find 10/$1.00 packets at Walmart)
1 or 2 of those little birds ( feather or mushroom: about an inch
nesting material ( Spanish moss or whatever)
scotch tape and a glue gun.

Construction:  Using 2 seed packets place bottom end to bottom end and tape along this "seam" on both sides.  This is the bottom and sides of your birdhouse. Using the bottom of another seed packet,
measure the center  area of previous taped packets and bend sides towards middle (should look like this front view): I_I .

Now using 2 more seed packets for front and back of birdhouse, fit and tape in place to the  bottom and
side shaped packets.  You should have a square box with 2 lower sides and front and back higher.  These higher packets, you must now shape and pitch like roof peaks. bending each of the upper outside corners to the inside of birdhouse and creasing.  Sides and bottom of pitched roof should kind of match. Now
the last 2 seed packets you tape together side by side and tape the "seam" on the underside only.  This is your roof, which is glued on the bent back parts of the pitched front and back seed packets.  HOWEVER before you put your roof on, make you bird hole at front of
house. I trace around a quarter and cut pie wedges  back from center of my
circle and bend these to the inside of house( these yopu use to glue into the
hole your Moss or nest material and then glue bird onto that. NOW position
and glue your roof on and some more moss on the roof with another bird glued on
that.  I have made some with out the moss on the top and just used a
butterfly or a bee on top of the house.

I usually use 3 sets of 2 when choosing my flower packets so I have matching front and back packets, matching side packets, and matching roof sides.  I have done some veggie houses......... my favorite is a
cherry tomato one using all 6 packets the same.  Once you get the idea down, I am sure you all can think of neat things to do with them.  My MIL loved hers at Easter.. so "Springy".  Someone said for the fall, pumpkins and squash packets would be neat! They are just so fresh  and cheerful to look at......cute little gifts too,  And no I do not take seeds out of the packets.
 
 

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