Come On In: Bucket of Flowers Tutorial

Needed Supplies:

Box of Ink Pens (Red ones for teachers-)

Scissors

Stem Wrap

Bag of marbles

Flower Pot

Ribbon

Fake Flowers (Pretty ones...)

What are you making?

Well, Let me tell you-This was the hit at Mother's Day!

They are Flower Ink Pens!

I can't take the credit for the idea, but I saw them when I was substitute teaching one day.

This would make a great teacher / end of the year gift.

And-

It made a great Mother's Day gift!

My mom is always in need of pens to write with, and I thought this would look pretty on her kitchen counter:

I was on a roll, and made one bucket for my sister, and one of  my friend too:

Here is how to make a Bucket of Flowers:

1. Fill the flower pot half way with pretty marbles, or rocks.

(This will anchor the flower pens as they are in the pot-)

2. Tie a cute ribbon around the flower pot...

(-or as some pots I've seen-make a chalk board square on the pot with chalkboard paint, and write something on the pot-)

3. Clip the flower so there is not a long stem, but a stem that is one inch or so-

4. Hold the stem of the flower at the top of the pen, and start wrapping the Stem Tape around and around, and around the stem, and the pen so they are taped together, and the pen now looks like the stem of the flower.

5. Wrap so many pens to fill a bucket. Maybe a dozen. -Until your fingers hurt, and you think to yourself, maybe three dozen pens was really too big of a project, but I must finish what I started. Or something like that....

(...Who would like Someone-!- to make me a bucket of flower pens because my hands are really sore since I made 36 of these crazy things!)