Crafts

Lollipop Plant

This makes a perfect holiday craft and a great keepsake gift. You can use any kind of lollipops - Blow Pops, Tootsie Pops, Dum Dums or any hard center pops.

Small terra cotta flower pots - 2-inch
    diameters or larger are good
Assorted acrylic paints
Water base glaze
Styrofoam - white or green
Spanish moss

Decide what you want to paint on your pots. Some examples are:

St. Patrick's Day: green clovers
Mothers Day: flowers
Fathers Day: fish
Valentine's Day: hearts
Halloween: candy corn, pumpkins or ghosts
Thanksgiving: leaves or acorns
Christmas: trees, snowflakes or snowmen

Paint the clean, dry pot with acrylic paints. Let dry completely.

After the pot has dried, apply water base glaze, according to the jar instructions. Let the pot dry completely again.

Place a small piece of Styrofoam in the bottom of the pot. Place the lollipops into the Styrofoam, and cover the foam generously with the Spanish moss.