Pipe Cleaner Flower Pots

This is a great Spring project, and doubles as a gift your children can give to relatives for holidays and birthdays.

What you need:

Pipe cleaners - assorted colors

Pony beads

Dry beans

Dixie cups

Small Styrofoam balls (1 for each "pot")

Paint - we chose green and brown to be realistic, but get creative here!

Craft Glue or Glue gun

1. Paint the Dixie cups and Styrofoam balls and allow to dry.

2. Once dry, fill each Dixie cup with about a half inch of beans - give or take so that your painted ball will still rest nicely inside the Dixie cup.

3. Glue the ball to the Dixie cup by applying glue along the inner edges of the Dixie cup where both objects will touch. This secures the beans.

4. Take one pony bead and one pipe cleaner, loop the pipe cleaner threw the pony bead to create the petals. Expect to ruin at least one pipe cleaner while you get the hang of this - I tried doing this in a bit of a rush, big mistake! :) Allow a bit of pipe cleaner to extend from the loops so that you can attach it to the stem.

5. Create stems by folding a green pip cleaner in half and cutting at that fold (1 pipe cleaner will give you two identical stems).

6. Twist together the flower and stem, and then push the bottom of the flower into the pot.

That's it!

This was a fun project for us, and I think it turned out pretty cute.

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