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DIY ST. Patrick’s Candy Dispenser Craft

Create your own festive St. Patrick’s Day Candy Machine with this easy and enjoyable DIY craft! Fill with your favorite St. Patrick’s Day sweets and watch as friends and family delight in this whimsical, homemade treat dispenser. It’s a fun project that adds a touch of Irish charm to your celebrations! Great for your desk, offices, and teachers!

Materials Needed:
4″ Clear Acrylic Snow Globe Jar
Small Terra Cotta Flower Pot
5/8″ Black with Gold Edge Satin Ribbon
Shamrock Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Unfinished Wood Knobs for Cabinet Furniture Drawer Pull Handles
Four Leaf Clover Shamrocks
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
E6000
Scissors

Let’s grab your supplies, channel your inner artist, and let get crafting!

Step 1: Grab your desired paint color that you wish to be the base color. You will then paint a nice coat covering all of the terra cotta pot. With this being for St. Patrick’s Day, i chose to go with ourShamrock Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint.

You will then grab your ‘snow globe’ jar and take this apart. Take the lid and the insert piece. You will then want to paint this in the same color used for the pot.

  • With this being plastic, the paint was having a hard time sticking. I did not have a primer on hand, so i went to the next best thing – HAIRSPRAY Worked Great!

Once all the paint was dried, i came in with a coat of our Mod Podge to help seal. You can spray again with the hairspray before and after. This will then help give it more security and not peeling!

Step 2: Grab your choice in ribbon. I went with our5/8″ Black with Gold Edge Satin Ribbon. I hot glued this in place alongside the rim of the lid and the insert that was inside the ‘Snow globe’ jar.

Step 3: Grab the insert piece that fit in the opening of the jar. You will want this piece glued onto the bottom of the terra cotta pot. You will glue the insert top against the pot. This will have the concave portion facing upward, which will create a “seat” for the jar to sit on.

  • You will want to apply the multi purpose glue, like E6000 in the center and then with the hot glue gun, apply a circle around this to help hold into place.

Step 4: Grab your globe. Once you are ready, apply a layer of hot glue on the rim of the plastic insert piece that the globe will sit on. Then attach.

With some of the hot glue showing, i came in with some twine and wrapped around about 3 times and tied off. This helped give a ice touch, but also hid that glue.

Step 5: Here you will have the options for a few finishing touches. I wanted to attach a topper to the lid for the globe. So i grabbed our Unfinished Wood Knobs, painted this in the same green and then hot glued in place on top.

We had these adorable shamrock accents, so i glue one right onto the terra cotta pot to give it more of a St. Patrick feel.

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FUN & EASY DIY Love Bug Crafts for Kids | Valentine’s Day

This is the perfect Valentine’s Day craft for your kids of all ages! Turn a simple paper mache pot into a sweet little love bug for the month of love! All is needed is a few crafting staples- Pom poms, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, paint and embellishments!

Difficulty level:Beginner
Time to complete: 25 minutes

Materials needed:
Paper Mache Flower Pot
12mm Googly Eyes
Gold Metallic Tinsel Pipe Cleaners
1-1/2″ Red Tinsel Craft Pom Poms
Red Paper Doilies
White Paper Doilies
Red Acrylic Heart Rhinestones
Black Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Cameo Pink Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Bright Red Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Glue Gun
Scissors
Paint Brushes
Q-tip

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Let’s grab your supplies, channel your inner artist, and let get crafting!

Step 1: Prepare the Pots
To prepare the pots, grab the desired paint that you wish to be the background colors. Since these are Valentine themed, i went with pink and red.

Once those 2 layers of paint on each dried. I came back with a Q-tip and made dots along the lip of each pot.

I applied red dots on the pink pots and pink dots on the red pots.

Step 2: Apply the face
Here i used 12mm googly eyes and 10mm pom pom for the nose. Simply glue those on with your hot glue gun.

Grab your black paint and paint on that mouth! Add any other details you wish as well, but i just wanted to keep is simple.

We have these cute gem hearts that i had to add onto these cute Love Bugs! I decided to glue them on to their little cheeks.

Step 3: Creating the Antenna

I wanted to create the antennas using our tinsel pipe cleaners. To help secure them a little more in place, i used scissors to help poke 2 holes in the top of each pot. Bend the pipe cleaner in half and slip them inside the pot to stick outside on the ‘bottom’ of the pot. You can then add a dab of hot glue to help hold in place.

Once dry, i took the piep cleaner and bent those in half on each side and twisted them together.

Grab your red tinsel pom poms and glue them on the top of each “antenna”.

Step 4: Create the wings
We have these small 4.5 inch paper doilies, so i took these and folded them in half. I then folded at the seam to be a bit overlapping. Once this was done, on the lace side, i cut out a triangle shape. This created the wings for the Love Bugs.

I then glued them on the back side of the pots! That’s it, simple and easy! A valentine’s day craft that kids will want to do and keep!






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