Do you love your garden but are looking for something beyond planting? Or maybe you're looking for ways to add a unique touch to your garden to show your personality?
Then you're in luck because there are plenty of gardening projects you can do that will add a splash of color to your garden without breaking the bank. You can make some amazing DIY art projects for your garden and make it look more beautiful.
We give you some ideas on how you can make garden art yourself and give your garden a lot of original accents and pizzazz. These garden crafts are inexpensive and easy. Check out our suggestions and get inspired!
DIY stylish garden sculptures made of concrete and jewels
Spring is a time forcreative garden art ideas. For these layered concrete vases you will need an inner container like a glass as it will have some voids due to the layers. Plan the height of the vessel with the outside shape.
- Take any mold for concrete (in the example, plastic panels were glued together).
- To secure the pieces, use clear packing tape.
- The concrete mix should NOT be too liquid, but rather have the consistency of yogurt.
- Pour some of the mixture into the bottom of the mold.
- Press the glass lightly into the mixture, but not so far that it touches the ground, so that a concrete floor remains.
- Place some stones and “jewels” on the concrete layer. How many and how thick is up to you.
- Be creative, use pebbles, glass stones, gravel - whatever combination you like.
- You can add subtle additional color.
Colorful hanging ladybugs
Making garden art yourself is definitely exciting and creative. ToRefreshing your gardenyou can make these happy ladybugs.
Materials required:
Plastic bowls
Acrylic paint for outdoors
Acrylic sealer
Wire for stringing beads
Small beads that help stop and place beads
Jewelry tools – needle-nose pliers or crimping pliers and wire cutters
Colorful beads
Waterproof glue
Wire for the antennas
drill
Loops for hanging
- Drill 9 holes in each shell. 6 for the legs, 2 for the antennas and 1 on the top for hanging. Mark the holes beforehand with a marker. For the legs, drill 3 holes on each side of the bowl about 1 inch apart. You can wait to make the antenna holes until after you paint the face.
- Using black paint, paint a large semicircle for each ladybug's face.
- Once the face is painted, add a line down the center of the shell to separate the wings.
- Next, add dots and finally paint eyes and a smile on the face.
- Make the dangling legs out of beads! Cut a long piece of beading wire and thread a black bead onto the wire, leaving a small end.
- Thread both ends of the wire (the long and the short) through a bead and use crimping pliers or needle nose pliers to clamp and secure the bead.
- Repeat this pattern for all six legs. Make sure you thread everything over the two strands of beading wire until eventually the shorter strand is completely covered in beads and only the longer strand remains.
- When you have finished the leg, place a crimp bead on the top. Thread the wire through one of the drilled leg holes in the shell and then thread the wire back through the crimp bead and down through as many beads as possible. Use needle nose pliers or crimping pliers to hold the crimp bead in place.
- Cut off any remaining wire.
- When all the legs are finished, attach the top of each leg to the shell with a little glue.
- Attach an eyelet to the top of each ladybug if you want to hang them on hooks in the garden.
- Complete these ladybugs by adding their cute little wire antennas!
Make garden art yourself: turtle shape with succulents
We also offer you oneoriginal garden craftsfor your succulents.
Materials required:
Hanging basket
The coconut phase
4 small terracotta pots
4 washers
Garden fleece
wire
chicken wire
Torfmoos
Succulents
Tools Needed for DIY Turtles:
Needle-nose pliers, wire cutters
Scissors
sharp, pointed knife
serrated knife
four small clay pots, chicken wire, wire plant basket for turtle forming
- Fill the coconut fiber lining to the top with high-quality garden soil. Cut the garden fleece to size and attach it to the coconut fiber lining with the wire.
- Then cut the chicken wire and attach it to the metal frame.
- Attach the legs to the edge of the frame and chicken wire for stability.
- It is easy to insert the plants by poking a hole in the lining of the coir basket with a sharp knife and then using a serrated knife to cut an “X” large enough to insert the plant roots.
