Flower Pots

Since my son's last day of school is Friday I figured we should make his teachers gifts for teaching him. I am not creative by nature but I take things I see and make it my own. On the cover of last month's All You magazine there was a flower pot made out of a coffee can. I thought it was a cute idea but unfortunately not even I drink enough coffee to have enough coffee cans for all of his teachers.
So instead I modified the idea of the coffee cans to terracotta pots. This project is easy to do and it does not cost too much. I bought the pots for $5.20. The paint I got discounted because it considered a wrong mix and it cost $3.25. I already had the paint brushes so those were free. The next step is to decorate the pots. We are going to use ribbon and I was able to get the ribbon for $5.30. Next I went to the dollar store and picked up some thank you cards. They were 4/$1.00 so I bought 2 packs. I bought the garden soil at Wal-Greens a few weeks ago because they had it on sale for $1.00 a bag. I bought some packages of seeds 5/$1.00 2 of the teachers will get daisy's 2 will get sunflowers, and 2 will get cosmos. Total for everything: $18.19 or $3.04 per teacher. Plus the time I managed to get a 10 boy painting flower pots. I hope they will be impressed by his gifts.
Today Elijah and I put 2 coats of paint on each pot we spent about 20 minutes on the first coat and about 10 on the second coat. Tomorrow we will decorate and then on Wednesday I will have him start the cards. On Thursday we will make up some bags with garden soil and attach a pack of seeds and on Friday he will give them out as gifts.