Handmade plant crafts to fill your home with plant colors

Slender stems, flamboyant leaves, plump soybeans, round rice grains... These very common plants, when used in handmade crafts, can produce what kind of stunning effects? Do you want to know? Then let's learn together!

Placemat

Materials to prepare

Stapler, scissors, white glue, palm leaf strips (39 strips), paint (purple, blue, yellow, red), paintbrush

1. Paint the 39 palm leaf strips in different colors: 12 red, 11 yellow, 6 blue, 10 purple.

2. Interlace the red and yellow palm leaf strips, then weave in the blue and purple palm leaf strips. The weaving order is: yellow over purple, red over blue.

3. Leave out 4 purple palm leaf strips, and weave all the others together. Trim off the excess edges, leaving only 1 cm as spare.

4. Fold up the edge strips and staple them in place.

5. Use white glue to stick the remaining 4 palm leaf strips onto the 4 sides of the placemat, covering the staples.

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Now, hurry and prepare a hearty meal, so you can use your own placemat.

You can skip coloring the brown leaf strips, and after weaving, paint on patterns you like.

Gourd garden

Materials to prepare

5 gourds, small knife, fine sandpaper, paint, rubber bands, 2 wooden sticks

1. We need 5 gourds of similar size. Take a small knife and cut a small opening in each gourd.

2. Pour out the gourd seeds inside, then smooth the opening with fine sandpaper.

3. Paint the gourds. Choose a few colors you like.

4. Arrange the gourds in a row, alternating the different colors. Place one gourd on each side of the waist of each gourd, and wrap with rubber bands.

5. Wrap string around both sides of each gourd, then cut off the rubber bands.

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Insert fresh flowers into the gourds! A tiny gourd garden can make your home colorful!

Give wings to your imagination (put beans inside the gourds, and the gourds become maracas! Remember to plug the openings of the gourds with peanuts so the beans won't fall out.)

Wheat ear hat

Materials to prepare

A large bunch of wheat ears, scissors, paintbrush, white glue, cardboard (40 cm long, 20 cm wide), black elastic cord, hole punch, red paint, compass, ruler, clothespins

1. Use a compass to draw a semicircle with a radius of 20 cm on the cardboard, then divide a 1 cm wide strip from the semicircle. Find the midpoint of the strip and draw a diagonal line there. Cut off the strip to the left of the diagonal line, keeping only the right part.

2. Apply white glue to the strip, roll the semicircle into a cone-shaped hat and glue it in place.

3. Use clothespins to hold the glued seam until the white glue is completely dry.

4. Cut off the wheat stalks, and paint about half of the wheat ears red.

5. Apply white glue to the outside of the hat, and stick the wheat ears on.

6. Continue sticking wheat ears until the whole hat is covered, making sure to alternate the red and natural-colored wheat ears. After sticking, press a book on the hat and wait for the glue to dry, so the wheat ears will stick more firmly.

7. Punch two holes in the edge of the brim, and thread the black elastic cord through as a chin strap.

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Now, with the wheat ear hat, you don't have to fear even the scorching sun!

You can also use colorful leaves or seeds instead of wheat ears to make a different hat.

Fan

Materials to prepare

Palm leaf (smaller), reed stalk (40 cm long, finger-thick), sandpaper, scissors, paintbrush, paint (pomegranate red, pink, orange, yellow), white glue

1. As shown in the picture, use scissors to trim the palm leaf into a peach shape.

2. Press a few books on the trimmed palm leaf, and after the palm leaf dries, paint it pomegranate red.

3. Sand the reed stalk with sandpaper to make it easier to paint.

4. Paint pink, red, yellow and orange stripes on the reed stalk.

5. Apply white glue all over the palm leaf stem, then insert it into the reed stalk, pressing firmly with your fingers.

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How is it? With this little fan, even the hot summer days are not so unbearable!

You can trim the palm leaf into various shapes: triangle, butterfly, heart...

Seed box

Materials to prepare

Black watercolor pen, small paper box with a lid, corn kernels, white glue, red beans, black beans, rice

1. Use the black watercolor pen to draw a car design on the lid of the small paper box.

2. Stick corn kernels all over the car body, and stick black beans on the windows and wheels.

3. Stick several rows of red beans below the wheels.

4. Cover the rest of the box lid with rice, leaving no gaps.

5. Put the lid on the paper box. Use the black watercolor pen to draw a line along the edge of the lid.

6. Apply a layer of white glue to the box body below the black line, then stick corn kernels on the front and back sides of the box, and black beans on the left and right sides.

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The seed box is done, quickly put your treasures in the box! You can also hide some little secrets in it!

Besides a car, you can also make patterns of a house, a flower, a bird. You can also try a round box!