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Crafting for the holidays is the most usual type of crafting there is. If you are looking for dissimilar projects for your holiday decor, think flower pot crafts. Turned upside down they become holiday characters for your tables or tree. With a little paint, a few odds and ends and a originative eye, an general flower pot may be transformed into a snowman, reindeer, Santa Clause or a gingerbread man for Christmas.

These crafts may use an assortment of sizes to get the same look. The only preference is where and what you intend the finished project to be. The basic pattern for most all reputation is an upside down pot for the body and a wood bead for the head. Styrofoam balls may be substituted for the head.

Flower Pot Craft Characters

Snowman – Paint the entire pot white for the body and the wood ball white for the head. Glue the ball to the bottom of the flower pot. Make a stocking cap and scarf from a scrap of fabric and glue to the snowman. Dab pink paint lightly on the cheeks using a cotton swab. Dip dot black paint for the eyes and mouth using a paint brush handle. Dip dot orange paint for the nose using a paint brush handle and using a toothpick point, pull the orange dot to the side making a pointy carrot nose. Glue buttons down the front of the pot.

Reindeer – Paint the entire flower pot chocolate brown for the body and the wood ball chocolate brown for the head. Glue the ball to the bottom. Twist two pieces of pipe cleaners into antler shapes and hot glue to the back of the head. Cut two brown felt triangles and glue to the head for ears. Paint the eyes by dip dotting black paint and glue a red pom pom for a nose. String a miniature jingle bell on red ribbon and tie around the neck.

Santa Clause – Paint the entire pot body red and the wood ball head peach. Glue the wood ball to the flower pot bottom. Paint the eyes by dip dotting black paint using a toothpick point and the nose using red paint. Glue strips of white felt around the bottom rim and top edge of the pot for fur. Cut a black strip of felt and glue around the flower pot for a belt. Form a cone shaped hat from red felt and a white felt brim. Glue the hat to the head. Attach white doll hair around the face for the beard.

Gingerbread Man – Paint the entire pot body tan and the wood ball head tan. Glue the ball to the flower pot bottom. Glue miniature rick rack around the face. Start at the flower pot bottom, over the head and back down to the bottom. Glue more miniature white rick rack around the flower pot rim. Dab pink paint lightly on the cheeks using a cotton swab. Paint the eyes by dip dotting with black paint and using a paint brush handle. Using a black marker, draw a mouth and a little curved nose. Tie a little bow using scrap fabric and glue to the head. Glue two buttons down the front of the pot.

PotLifter is an fantastically versatile tool designed distinctively to aid do-it-yourselfers move heavy, awkward-to-lift objects, such as: big flowerpots, landscaping stones, tree root balls, firewood rounds, bags of mulch, feed, cement, etc. Due to their shape and weight, all of these objects may be challenging . . . even dangerous! . . . to try to pick up and move. PotLifter moves these objects without apparent effort and safely . . . even over uneven terrain, or up and down steps; places where wheeled conveyances cannot go. PotLifter mechanically adjusts to enable lifting of objects from 12-to-30 inches in diameter, and readily lifts objects weighing up to 200 lbs. The tool has been rigorously engineered and is built of durable, high-strength polymers. Comes with a lifetime warranty.

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Most helpful customer reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
HUGE BACK-SAVER
By jgh
Even with good lifting techniques, it’s hard to lift heavy plants with branches in your face and more weight than one person should lift. This device permits two people to work together comfortably to lift and move large pots or other heavy objects. Even straight-sided objects can be lifted, because the straps have a rubberized surface, but it works best on objects with sides that are somewhat tapered or textured, so that the straps grab the surface and do not slip. This is a well-engineered tool and a huge back-saver.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Great Idea
By RT
We have used this same idea many times to lift and move objects, using rope or whatever happened to be handy. Once we even used dog leashes to lift a piano up/over a large doorstop. We decided to try this product and it works very well. We have a large garden that is terraced up a fairly steep hill and we are constantly adding, changing, moving things around. Pots, plants, bags of dirt, bags of rock/sand etc you name it. The pot lifter has come in pretty handy I must say. The price seemed a little high at first, however since we bought it and have used it so much it now seems worth it. Stairs are a little tricky if you are carrying anything very heavy, but once you get into sink with it and each other it works perfect.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Potlifter review: AWESOME
By dgreens
This thing is worth it’s weight in gold. Bought it to move a Big Green Egg grill that was impossible with just my wife and I. Bought this, and we were able to move it around like it was 10 pounds.

Seriously, the person that invented this should get a freakin medal.

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