Thumbprint Flower Pot

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Looking for a cute and easy way to bring Spring inside? This Thumbprint Flower Pot is an easy spring craft that will brighten up your house!

Thumbprint flower pot with yellow daffodils.

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Last week my daughter bought me a mini-daffodil plant, because she knows they are my favorite flower. Flowers are a great way to brighten up the winter doldrums and remind ourselves that spring is just around the corner!

So I asked my daughter to make me some flower pots to hold the daffodils, along with some herbs that I have had sitting on the window sill in the kitchen. She found this pin on Pinterest which made thumbprint polka dots all over a terracotta flower pot, and changed it up by making thumbprint butterflies on the flower pots.

See how to make the flower pots:

Three flower pots with butterflies painted on them.

The craft is very simple to make, and the supplies are inexpensive. It is a great craft for kids to make because it is so simple, and it would make a lovely gift for Mother’s Day or a spring birthday.

Thumbprint Flower Pot

Supplies

A paint brush, paint, and paint pots on a table.

  • Terracotta flower pot
  • acrylic paint in multiple colors
  • paint brush
  • paper plate
  • permanent marker
  • plants

Directions

First I painted a colored stripe around the top edge of the flower pot. I used blue and yellow paint for bright and cheerful spring colors.

A blue paint brush is being used to paint a clay pot.

Next my daughter put some paint on a paper plate, and used her thumb to make a butterfly shape on the flower pot. The pots we used were small, so there was only room for one butterfly.

A person is painting a flower pot with yellow and blue paint.

After the paint was dry I used a permanent marker to make a body and antenna for the butterfly. Then I took the daffodils and herbs out of their original pots and planted them in the new ones.

Daffodils in a blue pot on a wooden deck.

Now I have cheerful butterfly flowerpots on my kitchen window sill, and I love the way they brighten up the whole room!

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3 thoughts on “Thumbprint Flower Pot”

  1. I love daffodils, too! They are always some of the first flowers to come up in spring. Now I want to get mini ones in a pot so I can do thumbprint butterflies. This is such a cute craft!

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  2. Our daffodils just started popping through the ground this week. This pot would make the perfect Easter or Mother’s Day gift. Grandma will love it with the kid’s thumbprints.

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