​Rubber Boots Planter

You'll need:

White or green rubber boots;

Mat acrylic paint (white, red, yellow-green and green);

Laquer pencils (white, green and black);

Foam rubber 2 mm wide (white, yellow and red);

4 rubber balls with 3 cm diameter;

6 white wooden beads with 8 mm diameter;

4 black half-beads with 12 mm diameter;

2 wooden buttons with 15 mm diameter;

Thick green packing thread;

Round wooden stick with 12 mm diameter anf 10 cm length;

Invisible glue;

Fine-pored sponge;

Glass washing liquid;

Crepe tape.

Instructions

Degrease boots with glass cleaner. If necessary, paste over the edges of the soles with a crepe tape before painting. Apply a light green acrylic paint with a fine-pored sponge with a thin even layer. Allow the paint to dry completely and, if necessary, apply another coat. Paint the buttons with a dark green paint.

On a round wooden stick, draw a little white acrylic paint and draw peas, distributing them evenly over the entire surface of the boot. Mix white and red paints and sponge ruddy cheeks.

Paint the balls white, allow the paint to dry. Templates from the sheet of motives increase accordingly. The crown (2 parts), the heart and two loops of the boot (8 x 3 cm in size) should be transferred to a suitable porous rubber and cut out. Sew both buttons with green thread for sewing in the middle of loops. Additionally, for the jumper to install the crowns at a certain distance from the shaft, cut two strips of 4 x 1 cm from yellow porous rubber, twist the strips into a steering wheel and fix its end with glue.

First, place rubber balls on the boots as eyes and stick them. After the glue has dried, stick black half beads to the pupil sites. With a white lacquer marker, draw glare of light on the eyes. Stick the handlebar on the back of the crown, see also the photo of the model, then stick on the crown boots. Glue to dry completely. Use superglue or a hot glue gun to attach white beads to the teeth of the crown. Draw a mouth with a green varnish pencil. Then glue the loops on the sides at the top of the shafts, stick a heart on one of the frogs in the mouth.

For greater stability, first fill the boots three quarters with sand or gravel, then put plant pots in them. If the boots will be outside the house, in the soles you can make several holes to drain excess water after rain or watering.