Miniature Flower Vase Tutorial
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Spring is here! And even though the weather may not be cooperating - we are celebrating with flowers! flowers! flowers! Today I have my daughter without my son and so I though it was a perfect time to do a project just for her.
We picked up some little vase shaped beads at Creation Station and I had the idea of making flower vases for her dollhouse. She loves anything for her dollhouse so she was very excited! This was a great project for her as she was able to work along side me and she felt like she was fully involved. Also, aside from the beads... I used things that I had around the house (in fact, the flowers were going to be going to a swap tomorrow).
Materials:
- Beads (for the vases - you could used the large macrame ones if you don't have the type we used)
- Tiny flowers
- Small Buttons
- Wire
- Scissors
- Air Dry Clay
- Super Glue
Step 1: Stuff the bead hole with clay (this was the perfect project for my daughter).
Step 2: Trim flower steps short enough to fit in vase. Push the stem of the flower into the clay (I had my daughter push the flowers in)** For button flowers, I stacked two buttons and threaded the wire through two holes. Then I twisted them and trimmed the wire to make the stem.
Step 3: Allow the clay to dry at least 24 hours. For extra sturdiness, you could dip each stem into super glue before pushing them into the clay. I put a drop of super glue at the base of each stem as I had found that my daughter swirled them in the clay a few times before they dried which made them a little less secure. 
