Kid made flower planting kit

In May we have lots of family birthday's and this year I'm trying to make as many homemade presents as possible.  What can be better than a handmade present from your Grandchild / nephew.  As we are big on gardening at the moment we thought we'd try our hand at making some flower kits that I'd seen in a kids activity book we have.  Here's how they turned out....

First up the bits the kids were involved in - the painting.  They got stuck in quite quickly painting the pots upside down, meant the bottoms were a little bit more beautiful than I'd anticipated, but as long as I kept putting different colours in front of the boys the results were quite pretty.

This was a good craft for Little Dude too, he happily painted away and doing it outdoors meant I didn't have to worry about the mess.   

The finished results looked pretty good.  I accidentally left the price label on and the boys painted over them so when I peeled them off I wrote 'flower pot' in permanent pen.  I also varnished them with glue so that hopefully they can be used outdoors without the paint washing off.

Then to make it a flower planting kit and not just a plant pot I bagged up stones to go in the bottom of the pot for drainage, a bag with some summer flowering bulbs (I snipped some holes in the bag so they don't go mouldy), I also added some instructions and a bag of dirt.

This is the full kit all lined up, plus a saucer for the plant pot to sit on.

Then I packed it all inside the pot.

I placed the saucer on top, added the instructions and tied it all up with ribbon.

I hope you liked out flower planting kit, hopefully everyone receiving this gift will enjoy it too.

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