Decorated Baskets
Ready-To-Go® PetalPots
I donated 33 petal pots to my daughter’s kindergarten class. The teacher and I thought they would make perfect spring baskets to hold the eggs that the class will be dyeing.
I painted the pots 6 different spring colors, using only 3 acrylic paint colors and lots of white (red, blue and yellow). I used a Japanese screw punch to place a hole on 2 of the sides for the handle.
I then used artist’s tape on the inside to hold down the sides of the pot. I wanted to make sure that the pots will stay open (these are kindergartners after all and I didn’t want the eggs falling out).
Painted Petal Pots
The children each chose their own basket, and decorated with foam stickers: grass to go all the way around the bottom, one easter egg, and assorted bugs.
For the handle, I lightly twisted 3 chenille sticks and inserted in the holes. I held it down on the inside with artist’s tape.
They came out really cute and are being used as decoration for the center of their working table until their big Spring Celebration. On the day of, we’ll put grass in each basket and 3 dyed eggs for each child to bring home.
My contribution was the little Chinese Coins quilt on top of all the mattresses, which I embellished with lace, some of my sewing machine’s fancy stitches, and my very first yo-yos. I discovered that yo-yos are very easy to make with a special yo-yo gadget from Clover.
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