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April 11, 2012

Upcycled Soda Bottle Planter

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Earth Day is coming up and everyone is looking for cute planet-friendly crafts to do.  One of our favorites is this upcycled soda bottle planter my 6 year old made for school!

Upcycled Soda Bottle Planter! Kids will love making a person out of a soda bottle and planting hair inside!

It’s Earth Week at her school and each grade had a different upcycled project to make.  The kindergartners had to make planters and she decided to make a “girl planter”  — of course.

She liked the idea of a see-though planter so I cut the top off of a soda bottle for her to work with.  She added bottle top eyes, toilet paper roll strip ears, and even pipe cleaner earrings!

She really wanted to be able to put a bow in the plant hair so we planted a wheat grass plant.  After it was in she gave it a “hair cut” and then we tied a bow around it.

I see a little family of people planters in our future!

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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  1. The Monko says

    April 20, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    What a great idea, thanks for linking it to kids co-op’s special earth day edition.

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    • Megan says

      April 22, 2012 at 10:57 am

      Thanks so much! So many fun Earth Day ideas on the Kids Co-op this week!

      Reply
  2. Aimee says

    April 20, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    I just wanted to stop by to tell you that this is so awesome it is being featured this week on the The Sunday Showcase Have a wonderful week-

    Aimee & Bern

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    • Megan says

      April 22, 2012 at 10:56 am

      What a nice surprise! Thank you so much! There were many cool things this week. Woo hoo!

      Reply
  3. Nicole says

    April 21, 2013 at 6:38 pm

    These are so cute!! Thanks for sharing, I have pinned and shared on Google+! Hope your having a wonderful weekend!!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      April 21, 2013 at 9:58 pm

      Thanks so much Nicole!!! It really is one of our favorites!

      Reply

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