You'll need:
Thrift store dishes & candle holders
Silicone
Skewers
Easy Dish Flowers
3 Materials
$2
15 Minutes
Easy
Inexpensive and easy dish flowers for your garden!
Pick how you want your dishes to go together.
Glue them with a glue of your choice - I recommend either silicone or E6000. Let dry completely.
Glue your skewers onto the back of your dishes.
Let dry completely.
Place them in your flower pot or garden.
For larger dish flowers, all you need to do is glue your dishes together and let dry.
On the back I have flattened a spoon and bent it.
I glued the flat part of the spoon to the dish, and put the bend part of the spoon in a pipe in my flower pot.
Place them in a garden or flower pot to enjoy.
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Joa33953855on Aug 17, 2018Yes I would try it too
Chas' Crazy Creationson Aug 17, 2018Thank you and I'm glad you want to give them a try :)
Gloriaon Oct 18, 2018Not so much a question as an 💡 idea. If you bend the top of the skewer down and you can sit the “flower” on it then stick it in the ground or pot and use as a bird feeder! Thank You 🙏🏽 Love Your Ideas❤️
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Have a question about this project?
How difficult is it to bend the skewers?
I didn’t bend the skewers but if you wanted to bend them you could pretty easy. The spoon was easy to bend.
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