Gardening Pots

Now, I am all about arts and crafts projects from stuff we already have at home, but this one made me want to RUN out right away to get the things we needed to buy. Trust me when I say it takes something really special for me to be willing to do that!! Immediately, we all fell in love with the painting technique. I mean, who doesn’t love squeezing stuff out of a bottle? And the layers of colors that slide down the sides of the pot are just mesmerizing!

For our first attempt, we painted 8 small terra cotta pots. I painted them white with indoor/outdoor spray paint first. Then we used acrylic paint in rainbow colors. The next day, I painted the lip and interior with some of the red acrylic paint once the pots were dry enough to be placed upright. I sprayed them with polyurethane after they were completely dried.

I think the pots turned out beautifully, but we did run into a few issues- too much paint, bugs, un-level ground, and smeared paint (with the pots surrounded in a puddle of wet paint, you have to move them once the sides seem dry. Unfortunately for us, even though the sides felt dry to me, I managed to get fingerprints or smear the paint on several of our pots).