How to Make a Candy Flower Pot for Easter

Easter is a religious holiday with a great deal of animals and items associated with it. Around Easter time you'll most likely see, bunnies, eggs, chicks, flowers, baskets, and many other things. Easter is a holiday with many different options for decorations and activities. At Easter time, the tradition is to give the children in the family chocolate and just about every other type of candy, mainly because Easter is the end of Lent. This year, instead of giving the children in your family a regular chocolate bunny, make them a candy flower pot as an Easter present. This is a very easy Easy craft and is great for kids.

Materials
-flower pot
-acrylic paint
-paintbrush
-construction paper
-scissors
-pen and pencil
-over sized round lollipop
-small Hershey's chocolate eggs

Instructions
1. The first step in creating your Easter candy flower pot, is to paint the flower pot. Since it's Easter, it's best to pick a pastel color, as those are most commonly associated with the holiday, but you can paint is any color you'd like. You will most likely have to give the pot two coats, but make sure you wait for the first coat to dry to start painting the second.

2. After the second coat of paint on the flower pot is dry, choose an Easter message, such as, "happy Easter," to paint on your pot. You can also choose a bunny, or anything else that is associated with Easter. Before you start painting your message or picture, draw it in pencil first to make sure you don't mess up. When you're satisfied with your drawing, start painting using the acrylic paints.

3. Once the outside of your Easter flower pot is painted, it's time to move on to the candy part. Take a piece of colorful cardboard and put your oversize lollipop in the center. You will use the lollipop as the center of the flower, so draw some petals on the cardboard proportionate to the size of your lollipop. Also draw a leaf for the flower

4. Cut the petals out of the cardboard. You may have to cut the petals out one by one, or all at once, depending on the way you draw them. Then cut out the leaf.

5. Once the petals are cut out, glue them to the back of the lollipop. Make sure you leave the wrapper on the lollipop so that it can be eaten. Write the name of the person who the Easter candy flower pot is for on the leaf.

6. Now that your candy flower is assembled, pour the Hershey's chocolate eggs into the flower pot. Take the lollipop and stick it in to the pot and the chocolate eggs should hold it up and your Easter candy flower pot is ready to be given away.