Here’s a good way to upcycle old containers to make cute panda pots with fluffy pom-pom ears! You can use them as storage pots, plant pots or whatever you like. You could also adapt the idea to make different animals.
You will need:
- A pot or container to cover
- Two colours of felt; one light and one dark
- Wiggly eyes
- Yarn
- Scrap cardboard
- Scissors
- Coloured pencil
- Ruler
- PVA Glue
Step 1.
Start off by measuring and cutting a strip of the light coloured felt that is the same width as your pot and that is long enough to wrap around the pot. You may need to join two strips together if you have a larger pot.
Step 2.
Glue the strip of felt around the pot, trimming off any excess. Make sure you use plenty of glue!
Step 3.
Cut out two eye patches and a nose from the darker coloured felt, use our template as a guide and scale it up or down depending on the size of the pot you’re using. Glue them onto the front of your pot and glue the wiggly eyes in place too.
Step 4.
Next we’re going to make the ears! Following the instructions from our pom-pom ice cream tutorial make two pom-poms from your yarn. Glue them in place on either side of the pot.
Step 5.
Your pot is now ready to be used! Have fun and don’t forget to show us how you get on.
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