By Kid’s Craft Contributor Tracey, from the blog We Made That.
My mother has to be one of the hardest people to shop for. So with mother’s day fast approaching, I thought it would be nice for the kids and I to make her something special. She has always LOVED bird watching and has a ton of bird houses and feeders around her yard.
That is why I thought she would love these tin can flowers. I think they are so pretty and will brighten up the yard just as a decoration. They also work great as a bird feeder, we have had them in our yard for about a week and the birds are all over the place. I have seen birds that I have never noticed before come to eat our bird seed out of these feeders.
I had to do all the cutting of the tin cans. Even though the girls could not make these flowers totally on their own, they are still so proud that they made them and are so excited about giving them to grandma for Mother’s Day. It is the perfect gift for my mother who has everything!
Supplies
- 14oz Tin Can
- Tin Cutters
- Washable Marker
- Hammer
- Nail
- Green Plant Stake
- Outdoor Craft Paint
- Heavy Duty Glue
- Clear Sealer/Protectant
Directions
Use your hammer and nail to put a LARGE hole in the bottom of your can. NOTE: You need the hole to be big enough to fit your plant stake, so you may need to do more than one hole and connect them.
Make sure you don’t make the hole too big, this is what it should look like when done.
Use your washable marker to mark off where you are going to cut.
Use your Tin cutters to cut the can where you marked.
Bend your petals down
Using your tin cutters snip the ends off of each corner of petal
Now paint your flowers. You can do any pattern you like, make sure to paint the inside and outside since you will see both.
Once the paint is dry. Insert your Planting rod into the bottom of your can. Then apply your heavy glue on the inside of your flower
And then apply the glue on the outside of your flower.
Once the glue is dry bring your flowers outside and spray your flowers with clear protectant to help protect from the elements.
Fill your flowers with bird seed and watch the birds come to enjoy your pretty flowers.
The kids have really enjoyed watching all the birds coming to eat from the flowers they made.
Have you tried making them with 2 liter bottles instead? You use just the top half. Less dangerous for the children also..
That’s a great idea! They would be a lot of fun for parties!
How did you make it so the edges weren’t razor sharp?
Love this craft idea!! I’m going to make me some 🙂
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Where do you get the rods?
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What about filing all the edges, very sharp. Great idea!
love the idea and will have to do it myself!
I do can flowers,how were the kids able to paint them without you filing the sharp edges?Their razor sharp
wow amazingly beautiful and great fun for the kids and mom !! what a great present!!!
Can you make a Tin Man for us out of cans? Love your flower idea.
I will be making this tin flowers very soon I always save cans and do decoupage on them
This is a great idea, thanks so much for sharing with instructions and pictures for us to understand all the details.
You can find it at any lawn & garden store, or department.
The girls & their Mom did a fantastic job with bird feeders out of cans for Grandma’s Mother’s Day……I know she was so proud of them…..
Prekrasna ideja. Ja cu posaditi cuvarkuce u njih i mislim da ce biti cool. Hvala na ideji
I’m going to make me a couple. Were did you find the post to stick the cans on
What do you do to the edges from being sharp
Home Depot or Lowes i believe Walmart has the as well
Yes they will but will Hv2 put plastic straw. Around the cas. That way know one will get cut. I like to know wat kind of rod is on it.
Moments with your children are always priceless.
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I done this with my grandkids, all you have to do is sand the sharp places and rhe kids loved it!!! Thank you what an awesome idea.
Just a suggestion if you don’t have a garden stake…I used a long skinny branch.
Worked perfectly.
I have been reading through the comments.
Concerned of sharp edges..first thought that came to my mind is to take your hot glue gun and give each pedal a rounded petal finish with the glue no more sharp edges and I believe It would look really good..
Hope it works have not tried it..
I have been reading through the comments.
Concerned of sharp edges..first thought that came to my mind is to take your hot glue gun and give each pedal a rounded petal finish with the glue no more sharp edges and I believe It would look really good..
Hope it works have not tried it..