Hi Moms!
My husband's birthday is tomorrow, and I have been thinking what kind of gifts should be given to him by our 5 years old kids. I came up with a great idea just yesterday, that is: since my husband likes growing plants, I will take kids to "Color Me Mine", buy 6 inch pots they have, and have kids customize with their names, cute drawings and "Happy Birthday Daddy", etc. The only problem is: I learned that after you color on objects, it takes up to one week to be glzed and baked....Certainly not ready to be presented to my husband as a gift during Birthday dinner party tomorrow. Do you know of any other places to make similar customized products, but can bring the finished products home immediately?? Otherwise, I am planning to bring home the unglazed/unbaked pots and place nice (flower) plants, and have kids give to their daddy during the birthday party, then take the pots back to "Color Me Mine" to finish to the final products (the shop is o.k. with this plan, but advises me unglzed/unbaked ceramics can look quite plain).
I know I should have planned weeks in advance for the customized products, but did not think would take a full week!
Thanks In Advance for any of your suggesstions/ideas!
For something less messy and really quick buy a pot and decorate with foam stickers. My 5yo did this for me in her preschool class. It's very sweet. And she had planted a pretty flower in it too.
We did the simpler version of this. We bought terra cotta pots from Home Depot, along with kid-friendly tempura paint from Hobby Lobby. The kids painted them for their grandparents, and then I covered it with a glaze from Hobby Lobby. Simple, fast, and much less expensive. :)
Good Luck!
I think Michaels has a spray glaze.
Simply purchase a clay flower pot at your garden store, carbon paper and oil paint, trace your favorite image from a coloring book directly onto the pot with the carbon paper, and paint it, allow a few hours to dry. It looks great! same idea... :) we used winnie the pooh for our project. Have fun!
Not sure how high maintenance your hubby is, but you could still have them do the Color Me Mine thing and take pics of what they made and show him the pics and let him know the real finished product is coming :)
Another option is buying ceramic pots (already glazed) and then decorate them using oil-based sharpie (or other brand) paint markers- then you can bake them to set it. People report good results for this for mugs (see Pinterest). This way you can do it right away. Probably not as fancy, but less expensive and fun for the kids. One difficulty with the color-me-mine type glazing is that the unfinished glaze does not look at all like the finished product, so depending on your kids' age, it may be confusing or unsatisfying to them.
Hope this helps!
Yep, someone just beat me to the answer. Go to a craft store and you can get the supplies to do this yourself.
Michael's Craft Store has these plastic flower pots with a paper insert in them that you color and then put back in. The inserts are usually generic scenes but you can cut a piece of paper to the same size and let the kids do their own design with crayons/markers and stickers. They are less than 5 dollars a piece so it's affordable, and if you print a coupon for Michael's online, it will cut the cost as well (just google Michael's printable coupons). My son makes these every year for his teachers end of year gift (we include seeds, shovel, gloves and a card made from his hand print that says "Thank you for helping me grow" and they always turn out super cute. I like that when the pot needs to be washed out, for a new plant, you can take the insert out so it doesn't get ruined, where as the paint on the color-me-mine ones can chip (I've had that happen) and the ones from Michael's are hard plastic, so it's less likely to break. =) Hope this helps and that your husband has a great birthday.
Take care,
H.
