Cute bear pots to make
Recycle fizzy pop bottles into something to keep forever by turning them into adorable bear plant pots…
To start..
1 Using a felt-tip pen, mark the placement of the ears and top edge of your pot on the bottle, about 10cm (4in) up from the base. Cut around the plastic bottle with sharp scissors, being extra careful when you cut around the ears.
2 Draw on the features of the bear in felt-tip pen – the eyes, ears, nose and mouth. This will smudge if you touch it, so try not to if you can. If you do make a smudge, just draw it back on.
3 Mix the colours for your bear with equal amounts of PVA glue to make a paint that sticks to plastic. On the inside of the bottle, fill in the features of the bear by layering up the paint. For a panda, start with black pupils, the ears, nose and mouth and leave to dry (you could use a permanent black pen for fiddly bits). Then add the white eyeballs, followed by the black eye patches, then white all over for the fur.
4 Repeat for the other pots. For a brown bear, start with the black pupils, nose, mouth and pink ears. Then add a black rim around the eyes and finish by painting the pot all over with brown. For the polar bear, paint the black pupils, nose, mouth, a black rim around the eye and grey ears before painting the pot white. You might need two or three coats for even coverage. Leave to dry.
5 Once dry, add a final layer of PVA glue to the inside of all the pots to add a bit more durability when the plants are watered.
6 Pop some plants (use plant pots with holes) inside your bears and you’re all finished.