DIY Birdcage Decoration with Flowers
Creating a DIY birdcage decoration with flowers is a delightful way to bring a touch of nature into your home. Feel free to add some greenery or even a little fairy light for an extra magical touch. This project is a fun and easy way to add a charming and personalized accent to any room in your home, making it a wonderful conversation starter for your guests. Happy crafting!
- Wooden skewers or dowels
- Styrofoam
- Cardboard
- Artificial flowers
- Fake ivy or vines
- Petroleum jelly
- Cotton ball
- Spray paint
- Hot glue gun
- Hot glue sticks or hot glue rope
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- Ruler
Using a ruler, measure out two identical squares of styrofoam and cut, then trim the edges smoothly.
Cut strips of cardboard the height and length of the sides of the styrofoam piece. You will need 4 of these strips.
Glue the cardboard strips around the sides of one of the styrofoam pieces.
Now, using the skewers or dowels, create a line of "bars"' around the base gluing and sticking them about 1" apart from each other all the way around the styrofoam base.
On the top of each of the skewers, add a bit of hot glue, and then place the second piece of styrofoam onto these ends securing them in place by pushing the styrofoam down on them gently.
Cut a roof out of cardboard so that you have two triangle pieces that are the width of the side of the styrofoam base and glue these in place.
You will also cut two rectangular pieces to glue onto those to create a full roof. Add 2 strips on the sides, then glue the side pieces in place.
Using a cotton ball, rub a small amount of petroleum jelly around the edges where the roof connects and around the corners of the base. This is used to keep the paint from sticking to the cardboard to create a rustic look.
Spray the roof of the birdcage white and then spray around the bottom cardboard edges.
Once the paint has dried, rub gently with a cotton ball to remove the petroleum jelly and paint from the edges, giving the room a worn rustic look.
When the paint has dried glue the vine or leaves along the edges and seams of the roof, and around the base of the birdcage.
Next, glue the flowers along one side of the bottom and going upwards along with one of the skewers toward the top.
Once you are satisfied with how it looks, you can display it.
