This year for Christmas I gave three of my favorite teachers from High School a really cool DIY gift. It's real easy to do too! What you'll need:
- A glass bottle or a vase. but I found it cuter to use a bottle.
-Fake flowers
-coins small enough to fit through the neck of your bottle/vase, I used pennies.
-decorations, like stickers (if you want)
-paper to write your message on
How to:
Step 1
If you're using a glass bottle, I had plenty lying around from previous Pops trips, you might want to take the labels off. You'll want a container that's tall enough to cover the label of the bottle. You'll need to put some soap in the bottom and then put enough water into the container to cover the label. I had to go up high because there was this small label at the top. Make sure to put enough water into your bottle so it won't float up. The let it soak.
I had them soaking for about half an hour, which made it somewhat easy to peel off but the adhesive didn't come off, but it still took a little elbow grease, so you might want to go longer. I also recommend warm water because it worked better.
Step 2
While your bottles are soaking, you can take the time to get everything else for them ready. I got onto my computer and types out messages that I wanted to tape onto them. I wrote, "Thank You for Being the change to help us grow." ad then cut them out for each bottle. When it was time to tape them on I cut them down to better fit.
Step 3
At this point, I started raiding my change cups and piggy bank looking for enough pennies. I used about 60 for each bottle and that covered almost half an inch of the bottle, so if you'd like to cover more of it you'll need more then 60.
Step 4
Once the bottles are done soaking, you can pull them out of the water and pout the water out of them. Again, peeling them off was harder for me because wither my water wasn't hot enough of it wasn't long enough, but I dried them off and turned them upside down to get any water out of the bottle. I tried to peel the stickers off, but only one came off in one piece. The rest I used to a knife to at least peel it off of the bottle- but that's dangerous and if you're accident prone I don't recommend it.
Step 5
Once you're bottles are dry and you're in the clear to put everything into it. I taped the messages on first, then put the pennies in before putting the flowers in and presto! You have a cute little gift
