FREE: Painted Flower Pots

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Painting your own Terra Cotta pots is super simple, you need:
paint
a paintbrush
a Terra Cotta pot
chalkboard paint (if you want to add the chalkboard label, here’s a simple 2 ingredient recipe for making your own)

The beginnings of a cute flower pot!
Step one is to rinse your pot super well with water to get any dust off of it. Also, Terra Cotta is very absorbent and your paint will stick to it better after it soaks up a bunch of water.

In order to get a thick opaque color like my pots above, make sure to let the pot air dry for a few minutes before you start painting. The less water on the pot, on your brush, and in your paint, the better. Squirt some paint onto a plate and start painting with a dry brush so the paint doesn’t get thinned out by the water on the brush.

On the other hand, if you’d rather a translucent “white-washed” look then you can start painting right after you rinse the pot, while it’s still dripping wet. Grab a cup of water and make sure your brush is very wet so that the paint is thinned out. Paint thin layers until you are satisfied with the amount of color.

I painted three layers and let it dry about an hour in between. I made the mistake of painting the first layer with too much water (I got my brush wet before starting to paint, and it was all downhill from there!) so it was fairly translucent and the second layer wasn’t quite enough to fully cover the brown Terra Cotta color underneath.


I made sure to paint a little bit of the inside as well, but the rest of the brown will covered by soil once we transplant the seedlings.