Flower Photo Holder Tutorial
You will need:
2. Paint your stems green. I hoard chopsticks from the dining hall at my school all year long so campers can use them, but I ended up sawing them both because they were a bit high and too uniform for my liking. Feel free to add leaves, or not.
3. Glue the stick onto the back of the flower, not allowing the stick to cover more than half of it. (you need room for a paperclip on there.)
4. I missed photographing this, but this is really a pretty simple project so it’s probably unnecessary. Glue a paperclip above the stem. This will hold the photograph. I was thinking later that a teeny clothespin might do a better job (the paperclip might distort a photo) but I don’t have any, and paper clips are cheaper for a camp budget anyway.
5. You could decorate your pot/vase any way you wanted to, but I opted to wrap variegated yarn all around it. You could achieve a neat striped effect by using two colors of yarn at once, which I intended to do but opted not to when I found the variegated.
6. Place a substrate in your vase. At camp, I would probably have the kids help me whip up a batch of salt dough, but I didn’t feel motivated at home (and I would have had a lot left over) so I just poured some rice in. A little messier, but it does the job. I might replace it with dough at camp, but it really doesn’t matter.
7. Place in photos and voila! A beautiful, customized photo-holder. (note the completely camp appropriate photos, necessary for any camp prototype.)
- Cardstock (for flowers)
- Chopsticks, wooden skewers, pencils… anything stem like
- A disposable cup (or, if you have a nicely shaped one, a bottle)
- Glue(I used a glue gun and tacky glue and a glue stick, but most glues could be adapted for any of my purposes)
- Yarn
- Paper clips
- Rice, clay, salt dough, or some other substrate to weight down your vase and hold the flowers up
2. Paint your stems green. I hoard chopsticks from the dining hall at my school all year long so campers can use them, but I ended up sawing them both because they were a bit high and too uniform for my liking. Feel free to add leaves, or not.
3. Glue the stick onto the back of the flower, not allowing the stick to cover more than half of it. (you need room for a paperclip on there.)
4. I missed photographing this, but this is really a pretty simple project so it’s probably unnecessary. Glue a paperclip above the stem. This will hold the photograph. I was thinking later that a teeny clothespin might do a better job (the paperclip might distort a photo) but I don’t have any, and paper clips are cheaper for a camp budget anyway.
5. You could decorate your pot/vase any way you wanted to, but I opted to wrap variegated yarn all around it. You could achieve a neat striped effect by using two colors of yarn at once, which I intended to do but opted not to when I found the variegated.
6. Place a substrate in your vase. At camp, I would probably have the kids help me whip up a batch of salt dough, but I didn’t feel motivated at home (and I would have had a lot left over) so I just poured some rice in. A little messier, but it does the job. I might replace it with dough at camp, but it really doesn’t matter.
7. Place in photos and voila! A beautiful, customized photo-holder. (note the completely camp appropriate photos, necessary for any camp prototype.)
Who's that awesome-looking person standing next to you in the top picture? I only wish I could be as cool as her. Congratulations on starting up the blog! I'm looking forward to seeing all your crafts!
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