I’ll let you in on a little secret, around here we don’t decorate that much until it’s closer to Christmas and our tree goes up on Christmas Eve. Just because we don’t put up the tree until later doesn’t mean that we don’t have some bright lights, and beautiful branches welcoming friends and lighting up the porch. Who wants to look outside at gloomy dark skies when you can see sparkling lights, and colorful branches instead.
This Christmas planter is on my back porch, the lights come on early enough with a timer in the late afternoon so it’s sparkly and bright, and they are set to go off just as we close the drapes for the evening.
How to make a Christmas planter in 5 easy steps, one includes the cat supervising.
1. Gather your supplies, I used a galvanized bucket because clay would freeze here. Branches, evergreens boughs, ribbons, pinecones, a plastic bag of sand, pruners. 2. Fill bag with damp sand that you stole from your husbands winter no slip supply, tie bag up, and put into container upside down. Watch cat sniff bag of soil, he’s supervising. 3. Poke branches into soil, arrange to your hearts content, watch cat sniff branches. Add pinecones, or moss to hide top of bag, or you could put shorter branches around edge of container. 4. Step back, and rearrange branches again. Add some ribbons in strategic places, watch cat play with ribbon, and knock over planter, start again. 5. Add a string of lights, and plug into timer, you will appreciate not having to go out in the cold to turn off the lights in the dark. Enjoy.
5 Easy steps to making your own light and bright Christmas planters to light up your porch, cat sold separately.