Garden Decoration Crafts

Beehive Straw Hat

• The pattern on a natural straw hat looks similar to a beehive. Glue several purchased bees around the outside of a wide-brimmed straw hat. If desired, make bees from yellow poms, black felt strips and craft eyes instead of buying ready-made bees. Around the brim of the hat, use outdoor acrylic paints to spell a welcome phrase or bee-related words such as "my buzzy garden." Nail, staple or glue the hat to a wooden fence piece, or poke two holes in opposite sides of the hat to slip it over a metal garden flag holder.

Critter Crossing Signs

• Make fun crossing signs for your garden from wood or plastic. Purchase or cut a square sign shape and a rectangular shape, any desired size. Position the square with the points up and down and across, like a typical crossing sign. Paint the sign and the rectangle any background color. Trace and paint a critter, such as a rabbit, turtle, frog or toad, butterflies or other outdoor critter on the front. On the rectangle shape, paint the word "crossing." Glue the two painted pieces onto a sturdy dowel or fence picket and stick it into the ground in the garden.

Garden Light Holders

• Purchase a plastic animal outdoor decoration, such as a goose or raccoon. Cut two holes near the tail of the animal, through the top and bottom. Push the pole end of an inexpensive solar light through the hole. Use hot glue, if needed, to fasten the light securely. Make several animal lights to brighten up the garden.

"My Favorite Things" Welcome Sign

• Paint the word "welcome" or a favorite welcome phrase on any shape and size of wood piece to suit your garden. Use wood screws or nails to attach the sign to a sturdy post. Finish the welcome sign by gluing or stapling on some plastic craft items of your favorite things, such as birds, flowers, frogs or favorite pets. If the sign can be placed near an electrical outlet, drape outdoor mini lights around the welcome sign.

Terra Cotta Pots

• Flower pots can be rejuvenated and turned into a multitude of garden decorations. A saucer on top of an upside-down pot becomes a bird bath. Two pots glued together at their open edges can be painted to create an angel, a gnome or a scarecrow. Larger pots can be decorated and used to hold garden tools.

Garden Stones

• Pour some plain or tinted plaster of Paris into a disposable shallow container of any size or shape. Push shells, stones, buttons, plastic flowers or insects into the plaster. Remove from container when plaster dries. Place stones randomly around the garden or create a pathway through the garden.