Fun Recycling Projects
Spring Flowers

Before throwing away empty soda or juice bottles, here are fun decorative recycling projects for you and your kids. Create a flourishing spring garden from used bottles.

My daughter and I made this project for her preschool fundraising and it was a big success.

An adult help and supervising is required.

Materials:

• Empty bottles (don't throw away the cork)
• Sharp knife
• Marker
• Scissors
• Gesso or some other kind of primer sealer
• Acrylic paints
• Brushes
• Stickers
• Acrylic varnish
• Skewer

1.Take an empty bottle and cut it about 3"-4" from the top using a sharp knife. An adult help is required!

2. Using a marker, paint petals on the bottle using the cork as the base of the flower.

3. Cut the petals with scissors - an adult help is required.

4. Paint a white base coat on both sides of the petals using gesso or some other primer sealer - you need a base coat so that the paint will stick on the bottle. Let dry.

5. Paint the petals with acrylic paint using any color your kid likes.

6. When the paint is dry use stickers, markers, or any thing you or your kid wants to decorate the flower.

7. Paint the skewer

8. Optional: when the flower is dry you can finish it with an acrylic varnish for more durability.

9. Make a small hole at the center of the cork using a sharp knife. An adult help is required.

10. Insert the skewer into the hole. And you're done!

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