Upcycled DIY Dandelion Vase

Marker Tops… and a lot of these?

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dandelion vaseLike most kids my sweeties are always picking wildflowers and giving me bunches of them.  I saw this cute idea from the Red Chair blog on Pinterest and just had to give making an upcycled DIY dandelion vase a try myself!

All you need is leftover marker caps (ya know, from all those dead markers because your kids keep leaving the caps off) and a glue gun.

Gun & Caps

The kids helped created some of them … bunching the caps together in a certain order and then I would use my hot glue gun to adhere the caps together.

collection of vases

Once they were all glued together …

marker top vases

all we had to do is add the flowers!

adding the flowers        green vase with dandelions

colorful vase

I was really happy how they turned out and think they will be a great gift for Mother’s Day and for the kids’ teachers!  And, I will definitely be using a few of them for myself to hold the precious little flowers I know my kids will be bringing all throughout the summer!

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Laura Hutchison

Laura Hutchison (aka PlayDrMom) is a chubby kid turned competitive figure skater tween turned high school pom pon girl turned MSU Spartan turned grad student turned Mrs. HutcH turned Dr. turned Mom. She adores living in the Mitten, is addicted to Diet Coke, and firmly believes that ice cream is a main food group.

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Comments
  1. Sam @ Thrive 360 Living

    I absolutely love this creative and genius idea! The picture of all the vases you made is wonderful. Pinning!

  2. Valerie @ Glittering Muffins

    What an awesome idea!

  3. Anna

    What a great way to use up the gazillions of marker caps I find on our playroom floor every evening :). Love it!

  4. Lisa

    Perfect timing!! I was just outside looking at our violets! I have always loved them even tho I think they are classified as weeds? Anyway, I’m going to try this for them! Thanks!

  5. maggy, red ted art

    Super cute! And so bright and colourful too!

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

  6. Carrie

    Oh, what a creative idea!! I love it!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!

  7. Michelle

    These are sooo cute what a great idea!

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