Everybody loves a garden, especially one with cool decorations, but it can be hard to make your space unique when everyone’s picking up the same garden-variety decor from the local garden center. But now you can make your own creative items with these 3 great ideas.
1. Garden Chickens
You’ll Need:
- condom
- cement
- twine
- acrylic paint
Here’s How:
1.1 Roll out the condom and spoon the wet cement inside.
1.2 Tie off the condom and knot a piece of twine around both ends.
1.3 Tie the other ends of twine to stable surfaces and stretch out the condom to dry in a way that it will take on the shape of a chicken.
1.4 Once the cement has dried, remove the twine and condom. Make a chicken head,comb, eyes, beak, wattles, and feet out of wet cement, and once they have dried, decorate them with acrylic paint.
2. Giant Toadstools
You’ll Need:
- metal bowl
- red spray paint
- white spray paint
- stencil
- thick tree branch
- screw and cordless screwdriver
Here’s How:
2.1 Drill a hole into the bottom of the metal bowl.
2.2 Spray the bowl red and use a round stencil to spray the spots white.
2.3 Place the bowl on the thick tree branch and drill the screw through the bowl into the branch.
