DIY Cactus Painted Rocks

Weeks ago I did Fun Summer Activity For Kids which is Rock Painting and I was painting fruit rocks with my kid. It was fun to spend time with your kid in doing something together and my kid was happy to play with colors and brush. Since I enjoy the rock painting project so much, I did another rock painting again, This time is DIY Cactus Painted Rocks. Super cute! Okay, I’m so excited to share with you all my steps in painting those small rocks into adorable cacti. Let’s find out more!

Things To Prepare

I save some rocks to paint with from my last fruit rock painting. Maybe some of you have rock collection and I guess now it’s your time to give a new look to your rock collection. Let’s see what are the complete super short list supplies that are used to make this DIY Cactus Painted Rocks :

White rocks (choose long and bulky or round-bulky rocks. If you have black or other color rocks, paint it in white first as the base color.)
Acrylic paint (white, green, yellow, red)
Tooth picks and paint brush
Glue

How To Make

Rock painting looks pretty simple and easy, but it takes some patience and tricks to do it in a faster way. Follow these easy steps on how to make DIY Cactus Painted Rocks :

1 . Make sure your rocks are cleaned. If your rocks are not white rocks, paint it into white first. Mine are white rocks. Choose some long-bulky rocks and some round-bulky rocks for cactus variation.

2 .Prepare your paint and a big bowl of clean water. The water is to wash the color away from the brush every time you need to change color. I also use large paper to protect my floor from the paint, it’s going to be a bit messy.

3. I started with green paint. I have prepared green and lighter green (use white to lighter the color you want by mixing it). I painted some rocks with green and some others with lighter green. Let it dry.

4. Get a toothpick and use it to give a white paint dots, row by row. Other may just in random dots. Get another toothpick and this time use darker green to make dots. followed by yellowish green dots. In that way, you will get different looks on your cactus rocks. Let it dry.

5. Now take small rocks and paint them in orange (mix red with yellow paint), red and pink (mix white with red).

6. And last is to glue the small colorful rocks to the green cactus rock as flowers. Let it dry and you are finished with the cacti rocks! Yay! Take a cute vase and arrange them. Super adorable!

The awesome thing about painting some rocks into cacti is not just about fun painting but you get a vase of mixed flowery cacti that you can use for decoration without ever having to water it and you can keep it inside a room with no sunshine forever! How cool is that?!

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DIY Upcycled Cute Animal Pot

Your cacti, succulents or your other plants are multiplying and you have run out of your pots? Wait, don’t rush yourself to the hardware store and buy pots! Try to find things at home that you can turn into a pot. Like what? Try my fastest and easiest way to get a new pot from anything found at home. I usually make use of plastic bottles. A big empty bottle of soda is the easiest thing and common thing you can find at home. You can use them straight away after cutting it or you can do a little effort to make the plastic bottle pot more attractive. I share with you how I make my DIY Upcycled Cute Animal Pot.

Since it’s been school holiday, my kid was insisted on helping me with the plastic animal pot. It’s just a painting job with a very low skill needed. My kid wanted to make a pig pot, not a regular pig though, but Minecraft’s pig. As for me, I painted a cute puppy pot. Let’s see all the steps I had to make the cute animal pot from upcycling plastic bottles.

Things To Prepare

Super easy to make and easy-to-find supplies, so this animal pot is just great for Summer activity. Let’s see what are the complete super short list supplies that are used to make this DIY Upcycled Cute Animal Pot from plastic bottles :

Big plastic soda bottles
Acrylic paint (red, white, brown)
Black marker

How To Make

This surely a painting work, but super easy I’m sure. Besides, you and your kids can choose what kind of animal that is easy enough to paint. You can copy any animal or use your own creativity to paint animal you like. Anyway, if you wanted to make the same animal as mine, just follow these easy steps on how to make DIY Upcycled Cute Animal Pot :

1 . Make sure your plastic bottles are cleaned. Cut a bottle into two, about half from the bottom bottle. Actually the height is up to you to decide, a shallow pot or deeper pot. Don’t forget to make holes on the bottom of the plastic pot. But if you need it as a pot for a water pant, then you don’t need to make holes.

2. Start with mixing the paint. Combine red with white paint to get a desired pink color for the Minecraft pig. Mix brown with white paint and make into three tones for the brown. We’ll use it for the puppy pot.

3 .Paint the pig pot with pink evenly, then leave it to dry. Followed by painting the puppy pot with very pale brown (almost like a cream) evenly and leave it to dry.

4. When the pig pot is dried, get a black marker and start to draw the rectangle nose which followed by a pair of square eyes. Don’t forget to draw black nails on the pig’s feet. The Minecraft pig plastic pot is finished! So easy, I think my kid has done a good job with the pig pot.

5. As for the puppy pot, draw the nose in the middle then the mouth and dots around it. Put a pair of circle eyes by using black marker. Paint a little white for the eyes.

6. Continued painting a light brown to make a circle on one of the puppy’s eye. Let it dry.

7. Add pale pink of circles on both of the puppy’s cheek and also a pink tongue. Then paint a pair of darker brown ears for the plastic pot puppy. Let it dry. Remember to add two stripes on each puppy’s feet. Finished! How cute it is the puppy!

Super cute and fun to make! These animal pots from plastic bottles project is just great Summer activity to do with your kids. This is the second Summer activity I did with my kid, the other one was Rock Painting – Fruits. And the best part that I like most beside spending creative time with my kid is I get two free pots for my succulents! Look how cute they are!

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Fun Summer Activity for Kids – Rock Painting

My kid kept asking me to paint some rocks together. Finally, I have the rocks to do it. We were looking for a theme for the rock painting until my kid agree to make some fruits out of rock painting. It’s summer and fruits do looks very yummy on hot days. So we made different kind of fruits and if you look carefully, you will know which ones are my kid’s and which ones are mine.

Rock painting fruits is easy to do but it’s surely need some patience because it has to be done in phases and waiting for the paint to dry. So I guess, this rock painting activity does teaches kids to be patience, be detail and careful, aside to learn about painting works and color selection. Rock painting for colorful fruits is just one of perfect summer activities for kids. Let see how!

Things To Prepare

I intentionally bought white rocks for this fruit rock painting project. So if you like collecting rocks, then this is one of the great way to upgrade your rock collection. Let’s see what are the complete super short list supplies that are used to make this Fun Summer Activity For Kids – Rock Painting :

White rocks (choose wide, flat and smooth-surface rocks. If you have black or other color rocks, paint it in white first as the base color.)
Acrylic paint (red, white, green, yellow)
Tooth picks and paint brush
Black marker

How To Make

Rock painting looks pretty simple and easy, but it takes some patience and tricks to do it in a faster way. Follow these easy steps on how to have Fun Summer Activity For Kids by doing Fruits Rock Painting :

1 . Make sure your rocks are cleaned. If your rocks are not white rocks, paint it into white first. Mine are white rocks. Decide what fruits do you want to make.

2. Me and my kid made kiwis, oranges, strawberries, and watermelons. What you have to do is to choose the shape of the rock that resembles the shape of each fruit that you’re going to paint. Like for example, try to find round shape rock for an orange, a triangle shape rock for a piece of watermelon and so on.

3 .Prepare your paint and a big bowl of clean water. The water is to wash the color away from the brush every time you need to change color. I also use large paper to protect my floor from the paint, it’s going to be a bit messy.

4. I started with green paint. I paint the strawberry leaves on one side of the rock; continued with watermelon’s skin, also on one side of the rock; and last with the kiwi’s skin. Ask your kid to go along or copy the way you paint it. By the time I finished with the kiwi, the strawberry would already dried, then you can do the same again by painting the strawberry’s leaves on the other side and so on.

5. We went back to strawberry rock again. After cleaning our brush, we use red paint and paint the strawberry and continued with watermelon. Then wait for a while and do the same on the other side of the strawberry and watermelon rocks.

6. Move on to the kiwis, have the paint in lighter green (mix green with white to get lighter green). paint the inner kiwi and leave a little circle for some yellowish green in the middle. let it dry.

7. It’s time for the oranges! Get orange paint (can mix red and yellow to get orange color) and start to paint the outer rock. Continued with lighter orange color for the inner orange. Let it dry.

8. Now we go back to the strawberries! Get a toothpick and use it to give a white paint dots all over the strawberry rock. Let it dry.

9. Get a black marker and start to give dots on the watermelon rock; it will look like watermelon seeds. Followed by strawberry, make the dots next to the white dots. And you are finish with the strawberry and watermelon.

10. It’s turn for the kiwi, give the black dots around the inner circle. And kiwi is finish!

11. And last is the orange, apply white paint or you can use white marker to make the orange pith. I use toothpick, but I think you can have a better result with white marker. Orange is finish too! Yay!

Rock painting is just a great kid’s activity to do together on Summer holiday. Your kids can learn to be patience and play with color mixing and and have fun painting. With good result, your rock painting of fruits can be presented as a plater of fruit rock decoration. Cute vibrant colors of the fruits will look perfect for Summer.

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Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #434 Summer Ideas

Welcome to the first Happiness is Homemade Link Party of July 2022! Yes, summer has come and we are having FUN! Happy 4th of July! Sinea from Ducks ‘n a Row is our July hostess and I think that July may just be my favorite month of the year. For certain, I am looking forward to as much outdoor time as possible. I just love the warm sunshine. How about you?

Before we tart with the party, let’s see what I’ve been up to lately. Check out my latest posts!

Easy DIY Patriotic Napkin Ring

Free Printable July 2022 Calendar

So, let’s not waste any time and take a look at our featured posts from last week’s party!

This Week’s Featured Posts

BBQ Chicken Sheet Pan Nachos from Homemade On A Week Night

By The Sea Mermaid Homemade Tray from The Painted Apron

Rainbow Button Earrings from Artsy Fartsy Mama

Mango Parfaits from {NancyC}

MEL’S PICK OF THE WEEK

5 WAYS TO SET AN EVERYDAY SUMMER TABLE from White Arrows Home

TIME FOR THE PARTY!

Thank you for joining us this week whether you are a blogger sharing your latest posts OR a reader enjoying all of the inspirational shares! Don’t forget to drop by and say hello to all our hostesses, they always appreciate your visit! Here are all of our hostesses at Happiness Is Homemade!

Welcome to our newest link party hosts: Kim & Rachel! Be sure to stop by their blogs and say “hello.”

Linda @ A Labour of Life

Sinea @ Ducks ‘n a Row

Beverly @ Eclectic Red Barn

Katie @ Love My Messy Messy Mess

Mel @ Décor Craft Design

Niki @ Life as a Leo Wife

Allyson @ Southern Sunflowers

Kim @ Once Upon A Special Needs Life

Rachel @ The Antiqued Journey

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Home Matters Linky Party – Red, White and Blue Summer

Welcome to the weekly Home Matters Linky Party #385.

A great place to come, share your blog posts, and make new friends.

We are so glad you are here with us each week.

Before we start the party, let me share my latest projects:

Easy DIY Patriotic Napkin Ring

I have this cute DIY Patriotic Napkin Ring that is so easy and cheap to make. Find out more!

Meet the hosts!

Donna @ Modern On Monticello — Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

Mel @ Decor Craft Design — Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

Allyson @ Southern Sunflowers — Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram

My feature picks this week!

Introducing “The Dot Room” Colorful and Whimsical Craft Room Ideas by Sonata Home Design

How To Upcycle Bed Slats Into Cool Decor by Pillar Box Blue

Simple Patriotic Decorating For Your Home by Decorative Inspirations

Pesto Ricotta Crostini with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes by The Savory Cipolla

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Please take some time to poke around and visit some of the other links.
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We ask that you do not add other Linky Parties, Blog Hops, or Giveaways–unless you begin the party with a new project, recipe or post.
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Thank you for joining in the fun and excitement at the Home Matters Linky Party. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. We look forward to chatting with you in the comments.

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DIY Plant Label Tag for Mini Cacti

Summer is exciting time to show off your cacti and succulent collection. To make a perfect appearance of your lush cacti and succulents, try my idea of easy DIY label tag. It’s super easy to make, recycling plastic container and looks supper cute and summery. Just perfect for Summer cacti show at home. Now, let me share with you all the materials you need to prepared and how to make a DIY Plant Label Tag for Mini Cacti.

Things To Prepare

My plant label tag is a great way of reducing plastic waste that we have at home. I used a plastic box container which is a thin hard plastic, so it’s perfect for the tag. It’s easier to cut because it’s thin but durable enough because it’s a hard plastic. and the best thing is the color, so it won’t need a paint job. But you can always use transparent plastic if you don’t have the colored one but that means you have to paint it with your preferred color. Let’s see what are the complete super short list supplies that are used to make this DIY Plant Label Tag for Mini Cacti :

Plastic container (mine is yellow, you can use other colors that you favor)
Black ribbon
Foam double tape
Black marker

How To Make

For me, a DIY plant label tag should be easy to make as you definitely will make a lot of them to name your cacti collection. That’s why my plant tag label is super easy and simple to make. Follow these easy steps on how to make DIY Plant Label Tag for Mini Cacti and you know I’m right :

1 . I cut my plastic container into circles of 2 inches diameter. Mine is yellow, I love it, it matches my cacti on Summer theme.

2. Cut two stripes on top area of the plastic circle. These cutting is for inserting the ribbon.

3 .Then of course take the ribbon and insert it in the yellow circle tag. I like to match the yellow tag with the black ribbon, it looks good together, very contrast. Get a black marker and label the cacti or succulent. I only write down the genus name. It’s too long

4. Take a foam double tape and paste it on the tag to glue it on the cacti vase. Then, use the ribbon to tie around the vase. The double tape is to secure the tag while you tie the ribbon and it will hold the tag nicely.

I mixed my mini cacti with my succulents using the same label tag and label it with the genus name only. I think it looks cute with the wording. the label tag looks great for the both cacti and succulents. I really love recycling a plastic container into these label tags for my cacti and succulents, so I might going to make more with different styles. How about you?

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Upcycled Towel Basket for Summer Decor

Our June Challenge Theme is Thrift Store Find. My mom’s garage is my thrift store, I can find potential things, lol. My mom handed me a rattan basket and she reminded me of my old upcycled project which also used a rattan basket. She likes it and she thinks I can do a similar thing to it. So, my Pinterest inspiration this time is my own Upcycled Rattan Basket Tray. But before I move on, let me explain a bit about The Sustainable Pinterest Challenge.

The Pinterest Challenge has had a bit of a reboot for 2022 and is now the Sustainable Pinterest Challenge. Each month I join a group of creative bloggers and we select a pin or two that we feel inspired by and give it a go. Starting in January 2022 the Pinterest Challenge has a sustainable, eco friendly twist to it. All the projects shared will have something about them that involves recycling, upcycling, a general ethos of reducing waste and using what we have. It’s not about beating ourselves with a stick, it’s just about giving thought to how we can make small changes in our lives just a little more sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment.

Last month’s theme challenge was “Recipe for Leftover” and I made an Easy Cake Decor with Strawberry. For this month theme “Thrift Store Find” as sustainable as a base to any of our challenge projects, I upcycled a rattan basket into a towel basket for Summer decor theme.

Things To Prepare

Basically you would only need a basket and some paints to make this towel basket to light up your Summer theme. Anyway, let’s see what are the short list supplies that are used to make this Upcycled Towel Basket for Summer Decor :

A rattan basket
White paint
Blue navy paint
Brush
Blue towels, satin ivory ribbon and some seashells

How To Make

This upcycled rattan basket is more of a painting works, but of course super easy. All you have to do is gather all the supplies which I’ve mentioned above, be creative, paint as nice as you can and follow these easy steps on how to make Upcycled Towel Basket for Summer Decor :

1 . Clean your rattan basket and take off the handle. Keep the handle, I once use it as a wreath.

2. First I painted the rattan parts with white paint. Leave it to dry.

3 .Followed by blue navy color paint on outer side of the darker area. I’m not sure what it’s made of, I think it’s dried leaves that they plait together with rattan. Leave it to dry

4. You can add label tag as you like. I don’t give label tag because I want the basket to be multi-function. Now, I’m use it as a towel basket, maybe later as a centerpiece holder, who knows. So I leave it plain. Decorate your towel with some satin ivory ribbon and add some seashells to bring out more of the summer feels along with the navy blue of the towel basket. And finished!

This towel basket would look fantastic on your bathroom as a Summer decor or somewhere in your Beach home. Super easy to make, cheap and re-use of course! Not forgetting the gorgeous look that came out from a humble old rattan basket.

Now, let’s take a look at what the other Sustainable Pinterest Challenge participants have made for their “Thrift Store Find” challenge.

List of all participants

Julie | Sum of their Stories

Gail | Purple Hues and Me

Julie | Treasures Made From Yarn

Allyson | Southern Sunflowers

Mel | Decor Craft Design

Niki | Life as a LEO Wife

Ann | The Apple Street Cottage

Here’s the list of projects :

Tote Bag made with Vintage Linen

Decoupage Napkin Lampshade Makeover

Patriotic Star Shaped Wreath

Upcycled Towel Basket for Summer Decor

Upcycled Thrift Store Blanket Basket

Espresso Cup Cosy

Updating a Thrift Store Plaque

You can also view the projects from below Inlinkz.

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FREE Printable June 2021 Calendar

Month of June is almost here, Spring will turn to fun Summer. Sunny sky on June for coming Summer holiday. Let’s have the month of Summer June! Now it is time for me to share my FREE Printable June 2021 Calendar! Write down all your exciting plans on each day’s column for this beginning of Summer June 2021.

I will be playing with colors and pattern for this year of 2021 monthly calendar. For June I used Summer colors like shades of yellow and soft orange. For this June 2021 calendar, I have it in stripes of summer colors with relaxing touch of summer holiday with the wordings and flowers. Well, enough with my words, just straight to the downloading part.

Download Free Printable

Please download and print my Free Printable of June 2021 Calendar. It’s in PDF to print and maximum size is A4 paper size. Enjoy the Free Printable!

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Hello Creative 2021!

Mel

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MEL’S PICK OF THE WEEK

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My feature picks this week!

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