Category: Outdoors

Spring in a Bottle

 
  • Total Time Needed:
1 Hour

If it feels like spring’s taking too long to sprout, liven up a winter windowsill by making this mini greenhouse — a recycled take on a cloche, traditionally used outdoors to protect early plantings.

Materials
  • Clear 2-liter soda bottle
  • Small flowerpot
  • Potting soil
  • Seeds
  • Saucer
  • Craft stick marker
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Instructions
  1. Cut the top from a clear 2-liter soda bottle.
  2. Find a flowerpot that fits inside the dome. Fill the pot with potting soil, then plant the seeds according to the packet directions.
  3. Place the pot on a saucer and poke in a craft stick marker. Slip the dome over the pot. Be sure to water the soil when it looks dry.
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Seashell Collecting Bag

From Come Together Kids : My kids love collecting seashells, but I never liked how gross their shells got by the end of the vacation. Take some wet, sandy shells, leave them in plastic buckets in the hot summer sun for a few days and you’ll end up with a stinky mess that you don’t want to transport home.   I decided I’d try my hand at making my own mesh seashell bags.  I was really pleased with the way they turned out and they worked just as I’d hoped ~ the perfect bag for collecting and no stinky, sandy buckets of wet shells to lug back home.

SUPPLIES:

  • mesh fabric ( I found a utility mesh at JoAnn’s that worked perfectly)
  • cotton fabric (1/2 yard is plenty)
  • sew on velcro
  • about 20″ of 1/4″ ribbon

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