DIY Garden Markers - How To Upcycle Paint Stir Sticks
This month I am focusing on how to upcycle our trash into useful, practical items around the house. In doing all of these home improvement projects I've noticed that we go through alot of paint stir sticks. Now there are alot of projects on how to use pristine, unused paint stirrers to create DIY projects but what about USED wood paint stirrers? We recently started staining our backyard fence with Thompson's Water Seal Waterproofing Stain - Solid in Acorn Brown and I was using paint stir sticks to mix the various jugs of stain so we'd get an even color across the 40 foot fence. The color on the stir sticks looked amazing! Could it be possible to upcycle these paint stirrers into something practical? That's when it hit me: How to upcycle paint stirrers into garden markers.
If you aren't staining your fence, you might not have used stained paint stirrers. Maybe your paint stirrers have paint on them. That's cool. Just save up your paint stirrers, no matter the color, and make plant markers, signs, arrows or other projects with them. The idea is to make something useful from something you normally would have thrown away.
In the video which you can find in the link below, I apply the stain directly to the stir sticks just to demonstrate how easy the color goes on. Also, I only have 2 paint stirrers from my backyard fence project that had been used and I am growing way more than 2 plants in my garden this year.
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
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Love this idea! These are great :)
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Love these, great idea. Great way to help me remember what I planted and where.
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@Linda @ Mixed Kreations Thanks!
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