Fall and Painted Flower Pots

 



 

OK, I'm beginning to get into the spirit of Fall.  This old wagon I've had for years and each fall, I fill it with real flowers and some not so real.  I got the wagon new but use it outdoors, so it looks old from the weather.

How about a quick and easy Fall project?  These are some painted flower pots I do every year.  You can usually get the flower pots on sale pretty cheap.

On to the the Candy Corn and/or Pumpkin Flower Pot!!

 

 

  You might want to do several at a time since you do them in the steps as follows:

 

 

These pictures and instructions are for the candy corn flower pot.  I'll tell you farther down about the pumpkin one.  Take a plain terra cotta flower pot (duh) and spray paint it white. I suggest you use a primer because the terra cotta clay pots really soak up the paint.

 

   After the white paint dries, cut candy corn shapes out of Contact paper.  You can buy this at the Dollar Tree.  What I got was a wood grain Contact paper.  Adhere the Contact paper to your white pot randomly around the sides. Make sure you have the edges down securely.

 

Next, spray paint the whole pot black.  Spray over the Contact paper cutouts.

 

 

 

 

Next, splatter the black pot with bright orange paint.  To do this, thin your acrylic paint down with water and load your brush.  Then take your finger and pull back the bristles and it will cause a splatter effect.  Try this on paper first until you get the hang of it. 

 

As soon as this dries, carefully take off the Contact shapes and you have your candy corn ready to paint.  The reason for this procedure is that you would never get the bright white, orange and yellow on top of the black if you painted it all black to start out with.

 

 

Carefully paint in the candy corn in a bright yellow and orange.  The white undercoat serves as your white part of the candy corn.

 

I added a orange swirl around the top.

 

DONE!!

 

Now to the pumpkin flower pot!!

 

 

This one is so much quicker.  Start out by using a sponge* and covering it in orange.  Do a least two coats.  Then sponge a little darker orange and dab on some yellow.  No pattern - just a variation in color.  The use of the sponge really helps cover up the flower pot. 

 

* I buy 1" foam at JoAnns and cut into squares and fold them up to use in painting.  This works very well and is less expensive than buying the foam brushes or pouncers.

 

Now, just paint a Jack-O-Lantern face on and you are done.

 

These are fun to do with your children and they will love it.  Now, if you have your nails done, your manicurist will not like it.  It really makes a mess under your nails.  Oh well....

 

Enjoy!!

 

Till next time, Judy