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Spring is in the air and with it comes the irresistible urge to create some DIY craft projects to beautify your home. It’s the time for transition, growth, opportunity and new beginnings. What better to show it than with flowers? Especially that it wouldn’t require many more items than what you already have around the house.

Here are 5 DIY crafts projects that are easy, worthwhile that will add that spring sunshine to your home.

Flower Power DIY Craft Projects

#1 Spring Flower Popsicles

These spring treats are loaded with the vibrant essence of wildflowers!

 

Here’s what you will need:

• 16 ounces of water
• 1 ounce Orange Blossom Water
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• Sweetener to taste (a dropper of Stevia extract, a bit of honey, or sugar)
• A handful of edible flower petals, such as clover, dandelion, rose, lavender, sunflower, marigold, or nasturtium
• A popsicle mold or Dixie cups and popsicle sticks

How to:

1. Mix the water, orange blossom water and lemon juice together.
2. Add whatever sweetener you like, to taste.
3. Pour this mixture into popsicle moulds and freeze for 1 hour.
4. Remove from the freezer and gently and artfully push the flower petals into the moulds or cups with a spoon or popsicle stick.
5. Add the sticks, and freeze for 2-3 hours more until solid.

I’ve found this amazing idea first on Jerry James Stone’s blog.

#2 A Simple, Rustic Display of Flowers

Try a basic yet elegant, shabby chic way of displaying the flowers from your garden or your local farmer’s market for your DIY craft projects using milk bottles.

Here’s what you will need:

• Use 6-9 clear, vintage milk bottles for this project, which you can find at a thrift store, on eBay, or on Amazon.
• Twin thread or natural raffia ribbon
• Flowers

How to:

1. Line up the bottles in 2 or 3 rows on your table.
2. Tie gardener’s twine or natural raffia ribbon around the lot of them, looping it around a couple of times and tying it off.
3. Use your spring eye for colour and design to place 2-3 stems in each bottle, creating a beautiful display of blooms.

You can also use beverage bottles as Eat Drink Chic did so beautifully in her wedding post.

#3 Graceful Rose Napkin Rings

This easy, classy trick may move you to create an entire rose-themed spread based on it this spring for your DIY craft projects. The result is a surprisingly elegant floral touch to your table.

Here’s what you will need:

• Package of hair elastics
• Faux roses
• Needle and thread

How to:

Take a package of hair elastics, and simply hand-sew a pair of faux rose blooms onto each one with a couple of stitches.

You can alternately try what the Chic Site did. She used plastic shower rings, covered them with coloured ribbon and glued a silk rose onto it with an equally beautiful setting.

#4 Hanging Wall Vases

These little fairy-like vases will make the room come alive with spring.

Here’s what you will need:

• Order some test tube vials on Amazon.com
• Fishing Line
• Cut some clear fishing line into 12 inch pieces.
• Glue gun
• Nails
• Hammer

How to:

1. Loop a piece of fishing line around each vial, using a hot glue gun to secure it.
2. Hang the tiny vases from little nails in a lovely pattern on your wall.
3. Pick some pretty stems of spring flowers to add to each one.

Rustic Wedding Décor did a similar project on her blog with glass vases that have holes on the sides to thread through a ribbon or line.

#5 Eggshell Flowerpots

If you are a gardener, here’s a cute way to start your seedlings this year and your DIY craft projects.

Here’s what you will need:

• Clean eggshell halves
• Seedling mix
• Seed package

How to:

1. Fill the eggshells with seedling mix to plant your seeds in.
2. Plant seeds according to the directions on the package
3. Set them in the base of an egg carton on a sunny windowsill.

Soon you will have a beautiful display of new green growth sprouting from eggshells.

How much more spring-like can you get? Gently break/peel off the shells to plant your little seedlings in the garden when the time comes. You can also paint them in beautiful colours as Livas Crafts did in her post.

To Summarise….

These ideas will really get you started on your flower DIY craft projects to amplify your home this spring.

1. Flower popsicles
2. Rustic display of flowers
3. Rose napkin rings
4. Hanging wall vases
5. Eggshell flowerpots

What’s your idea of flower power DIY craft project?

About the author

Jessica Kane is a professional writer who has an interest in arts and crafts, DIY, and other handmade products. She currently writes for Indian Traders, a leading vendor of native american blankets and jewellery.

This is Grace

Grace from Color & Grace. Based in Troy, Michigan, Grace is a 41 year-old petite woman who loves colours. Born and raised in China, she moved to America for love in 2007. Her day job – teacher. Her dream job – fashion blogger. Make sure to go and check out her blog and leave her a comment on her awesome outfit.

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