Hand-Painted Brick Garden Crafts

Plant Markers

• Use decorated bricks, instead of traditional plant markers, to mark the different plants you have planted in your garden. First, paint the bricks a solid color with exterior house paint. Using exterior paint will help to seal the brick and protect your artwork from the elements. Paint the name of each plant you want to mark onto the bricks. If you're feeling especially artistic, paint an image of the plant onto the brick as well.

Pretty Borders

• Instead of bordering your flower beds and vegetable plots with ordinary bricks, hand-paint some and add a little extra beauty to your gardens. Paint your bricks green or brown with exterior house paint, and paint white picket fences along one of the broad sides of each brick. Add details such as little bugs, worms and flowers around the fence and on the tops of the bricks. Place the bricks, fence-side out, around the borders of your flower beds and vegetable gardens.

Garden Poem

• Display your favorite poem in your garden as a decorative and thoughtful walkway between beds, or on an area of ground in front of the garden. Paint each brick with a stone-finish spray paint so that they look like gray rocks. Hand-paint a word of the poem on each brick to finish an entire verse, or the whole poem if you have enough bricks. Use black or dark-gray paint to paint the words, so they appear to be engraved in the bricks.