Make A Flower Pot Gnome

You can use small or large flower pots to make your gnomes.

At the bottom of this post is an image of these instructions for you to download and print. This can be a fun project for older kids or adults over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Enjoy!

You Need: 4 clay pots that stack, a bunch of greens about 8” long (Port Orford Cedar or Green Giant arborvitae work well), a spool of wire, thin but strong sticks, a red pompom or glass ball for the nose, and
a sturdy pine cone of your choice. Tools: pruners and wire cutters.

Wrap the greens into a bunch with wire tightly. Attach the red ball with a wire. Then cut a piece of a stick that fits in the bottom of pot #3. See the photo below.

Cut a length of wire from the spool about 2 yards long, wrap the center of the wire around the stick and pull through the hole of pot #3. Hold the bundle of beard next to pot #3 – Thread the wire up through pot #2 then place it on top of pot #3 so the edge falls just above the nose. Pull the wire tight, and wrap it around another small stick to hold pots together.

Thread wire up through the hole of pot #1. Wind the wire around a pine cone, again pulling tightly. If needed, tuck some moss in space between cone and top pot.

You can download this image and print the instructions.