Can you give me some ideas for making a water well?

Functioning well or just decorative?

Shellie, do you mean the decorative mini well for the yard, or do you mean actually digging a shallow water well? To find the decorative kind, I typed "wishing well" in the search box. There are more ideas from different materials. If you want the decorative well:

https://www.hometalk.com/diy/outdoor/garden/how-to-make-a-wooden-garden-wishing-well-9014156

https://www.hometalk.com/diy/outdoor/garden/make-a-wishing-well-from-scrap-wood-31580667

https://www.hometalk.com/diy/outdoor/garden/well-wishes-3920760

Functional ones are all but prohibited in many parts of the world, due to commercial wells having severally dropped major aquafers.

Here is a post about how to make a shallow water well - but do please check any restrictions for where you live https://www.shtfpreparedness.com/how-to-drill-your-own-water-well/

If the cost of a well is too much, you can also recover and store water from your gutters. YouTube has many off grid water resource ideas.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NvbcbF8ykQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHQmvjF89pE