Flower Pen

Flower Pen:

I am always getting frustrated in our office because our pens seem to vanish into thin air.  I was looking for something creative and crafty to help "discourage" them from vanishing and came across this cute idea from The Frugal Girls.

Here is their actual blog post on how they make their flower pens: http://thefrugalgirls.com/2011/02/how-to-make-a-flower-pen.html.  There are so many cute crafty ideas on their site!!!

What you will need:

*4 silk flowers.  I purchased mine for 50% off at Joann's.  They came in a bunch of 8 of them for $3.99 on sale.

*1 square glass jar.  I found mine at the Dollar store.

*1 bag of river rocks.  I got mine at the Dollar store.  I bet you could find something like this at one of the craft stores.

*4 ball point pens.  I purchased mine from the Dollar store.  You could also get them from a office supply store, Target, or Walmart.

*Green floral tape.  I got this one from Joann's at 50% off.

*Some thin ribbon.  I had this on hand but I know that the craft stores carry it.

Step 1:  Take your pen and pop off the tip.  I had to use my wire cutters to get the tips off.  It was really quick to just pop them right off.

Step 2:  Now that you have the tip off the pen.  Cut one of the flowers off leaving a little stem part to stick into the end of the now open top of the pen.  If my stem to my flower had been a little thinner you could have left a longer portion and stuffed it into the top of the pen.  The flowers I chose to use, the stem was really thick so I had to cut it quite short to fit into the top of the pen.

Step 3:  Take your green floral tape, starting at the top of the pen, wrap it round the pen going all the way to the bottom just to the black portion on this pen.

Step 4:  Next add some ribbon around the base of the flower.

Step 5:  Fill the square glass jar with the river rocks leaving a little room for the flower pens.

Note:  I tried using this kind of pen and didn't have good luck with it.  The first one came out ok but the the next ones the bottom kept popping off. I think if the stem had been a lot thinner it might have worked better.

This was such a fun and easy craft to do.  They turned out so cute I made them up for friends and family for Easter this year.  They all LOVED them!!! I give this craft a 10 out of 10, it's really easy that a child could do with supervision from an adult.  These would be super cute gifts for Mother's Day!!