Clay Pot Butterfly And Flowers Card Holder- Clay Pot Crafts

This little bit of sunshine can be used for a place card holder or a decoration. It combines a clay pot, fake flowers, wooden butterfly, wire, paint, and glue to help inspire a spring mood. Kids will enjoy trying this craft too, just make sure they have adult supervision with the hot glue gun.

Materials:

Clay pot – 1 and ½ inch tall
Fake flowers – 1 inch big, cut to 4-7 inches tall. 3 sets of light blue, 2 sets of light yellow.
Wood butterfly – 4 inches tall and 2-3 inches wide
Green wire – 6 inches tall and about 1/8 inch wide
Paint – Forest green, white, black, lavender, light blue, and fuchsia
Paintbrush
Hot glue gun and glue

Instructions:

1. Paint the small clay pot forest green as shown in the “Step 1” picture and let dry.

2. Paint butterfly as shown in the “Step 2” picture and let dry. I painted the body light blue with very light lavender dots. Then I made the wings lavender. I added tiny black, white, and fuchsia dots to the wings.

3. Stick some salt, sand, or scrap Styrofoam into the bottom of the clay pot. Cut your flowers to the height desired and stick them into the foam, as shown in the “Step 3“ pictures. Glue flower bottoms into place and let dry.

4. Heat up your glue gun and secure the thin green wire to the back of the butterfly and let dry, as shown in the “Step 4” picture.

5. Stick the wire into the pot and secure, as shown in the main picture above. You may or may not want to glue the wire in place, depending on what you’re using the decoration for. Let dry if glued.

6. Slip a place card between the butterfly’s first antenna and opposite wing, as shown in the pictures, if you want to make it a place card holder. You can also place it on a shelf, give it as a gift, or use it as a decoration on a platter of appetizers.

Notes:

The wooden butterfly should be easy to find at almost any craft store. If it’s not ready made, just get two wings, a bead for the head, a bead for the body, and two snippets of black wire for the antennas.

The craft can be used just to help cheer up a room, or as a fun birthday party place card holder. It’s simple enough to create a large quantity, and if you have enough time you can even paint each butterflies wings a little differently.

by Aysha Schurman