How to Make a Cute Jute Pot for Plants

I love the look of jute string and it's a good eco-item to use in crafts, reasonably inexpensive and green to use in crafts. For this plant holder craft, you get to use up those odd and miscellaneous plastic containers that seem to proliferate and fill your cupboards with plastic junk! Combining jute string or any string, for that matter, and those junky plastic containers you can create a really cool and cute jute plant holder.

Supplies

Plastic containers of various sizes and shapes

Paintbrush, glue, jute string or other string or even small rope

Scissors, paints (optional), and ribbon (also optional)

Procedure

Step 1: Clean the container, dry it and coat it with a thin layer of glue

Step 2: Begin winding string around the bottom base, tucking the ends under the first 2 or 3 rows, winding firmly and tightly, adding more glue to seal as needed.

Step 3: Right before you get to the last 3 or 4 rows, cut your string to finish, and tuck the end under the last 2 or 3 rows of string.

Step 4: If you want a painted pot, you can either spray paint or paint with acrylic paint. Let it dry.

Step 5: You can glue on button accents, or what I prefer, is to wrap a simple ribbon around the top of the plant and tie a simple bow there, trim the edges of the ribbon to match. I put glue under the ribbon as I wrap it, to hold it secure, using a tacky glue.

Step 6: Fill the pot with dirt and plant your favorite herb or flower in it. Give a great gift to someone.

We make these one day a year, and have them ready for planting when we need a great last minute gift for a thank you. I always have herb starts I can place in them, basil, oregano, or even chives look great! You can plan ahead and just sew a field of chives. One year we gave these as Easter gifts, used plain jute, and pastel ribbons to decorate and planted grass seed in them about a month before giving, then nestled a colored hardboiled egg in the grass.