Coffee cans? Why yes!
I had a bunch of potted flowers left over from
the grad party and no extra pots to plant them.
I needed some cheap, as in free, and quick planters. These babies were pot bound!
I had been saving some 'real' coffee cans and decided I'd use them for this. Some coffee cans are actually cardboard these days so if I ever happen to get a metal one, I keep it.
I added some drainage holes with a screwdriver and mallet.
It was a windy day and my whole set up blew over (but the cans were fine). I gave them each 3 light coats of spray paint.
See how windy it was, the pots were blowing over too. I also had snagged this popcorn bowl from my donate pile. We had gotten it at Cut Throat Christmas last year--(full of candy, microwave popcorn and movie tickets=nice) but it's been too big to keep in my kitchen. If we do have popcorn, it's a little too heavy so it hasn't gotten any use and kept getting in the way.
I grabbed the thrifted little basket off of my craft shelf too. It already had a plastic pot in it so that made it super easy. I added some rocks for drainage in the popcorn bowl.
Bada-bing! Two free planters.
After the coffee cans dried, I filled them up with flowers too.
The chalkboard paint really works.
I need to come up with something a little more creative than what's in the pot.
I'll get my artistic daughter's on that, stat!
The popcorn pot has petunias and daisies but 'somebunny' munched off all of the daisy flowers.
So whaddya think? Cheap can be good, right?
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