A flower pot doesn’t have to be fancy, but there’s nothing stopping you from going that route if you want to. Where’s the fun in life if you don’t go the extra mile every now and then?
Typically, you would need nothing more than clay or plastic to make a plant pot. But provided you had more than that, would you be up for making one?
Here’s a new flower pot idea for you: recycled bottle caps and cement.
Not exactly the most eye-catching or fancy materials you can think of. Concrete and bottle caps have been paired together before, and it’s usually in the form of street litter. But these two humble materials can be put to better use, as you’ll see here.
Cement Craft Ideas on YouTube has an unconventional design for a flower pot.
It involves a lot of discarded bottle caps.
First, he of course needs bottle caps. A lot of bottle caps. You probably won’t have this many unless you’ve been hoarding them, or you were able to source them somehow.
But how you get them doesn’t matter much. And next, you’ll need some cement and experience making it.
I’ll admit, cement is probably not something most of us will have on hand.
So I guess we’ll just have to settle for watching him do it. Unless some of you out there happen to have bags of cement mix lying around in your yards.
Working with cement is messy and not as easy as it looks. You need to shape it and line it with something to help it settle.
To shape this cement, he uses some old cardboard boxes roughly the size and shape of a pizza box.
Then he lines up the inside with as many bottle caps that can fit inside the box. When that’s over, he begins pouring the wet cement on top of all four boxes, covering the bottle caps in the process.
When the cement dries, he ends up with 4 identically-sized slabs.
Each slab has a nice, colorful mosaic pattern on it thanks to the bottlecaps.
But that’s not the end of it. These slabs won’t hold any plants on their own.
The plan is to use them as individual sides for a larger structure, and that’s what he starts working on.
He lines them up in a box-shape and uses supports to hold them in that position. Then he starts working on a base to join all four slabs. He does this by making another cement layer on top.
Now he’s got a nice, cement box with some colorful patterns on it. It’s time to get it ready to hold actual plants.
He takes some old cylinders as templates to help him make rounded corners for it. Then he fills it up with dirt and starts customizing the thing with paint.
Then he transplants some ferns into it to let us know the project’s done.
And I must say, that’s a pretty darn great way to make a plant pot. It makes a great corner piece and decorates the outside superbly.
He made it with “junk” materials too, no less.
Watch him make his cement and bottlecap plant pot below. If you liked this, then please share this article too!
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