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

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.

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

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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