Homemade Outdoor Lawn Art

Plant Containers

• Plant flowers in containers never meant to be flower pots. Find them at garage and rummage sales. It does not matter if they are slightly damaged or not. An old metal bucket with a hole in the bottom may not be suitable for carrying water, but it has a built-in drain hole for excess water to drain from soil when using as a flower pot. Use an old wheel barrow planting in the bed or turn it on the side to make it look like flowers spilled out to the ground. Set up a rusty old bicycle and plant flowers in a basket hanging from the handlebars.

Garden or Lawn Edgings

• Line gardens or paths with rummage sale finds. Use old dinner plates as an edging by inserting them vertically, halfway in the ground. Use old vinyl records that are too scratched to play anymore the same way. Line a garden with large sea shells or sink old balls partially into the soil to line a pathway. Situate two bowling balls on either side of the entrance to a garden and either paint them or leave them natural.

Lawn Lighting

• Artful lighting makes a lawn and garden interesting during the evening hours. Fill clean tin cans with water and put in the freezer. Make design templates from leaves or flowers and affix them to the sides of the cans once the water freezes. Take a nail and hammer it in all around the edge of the template to make a design on the can. Paint the cans with metal-friendly spray paint or leave them tin colored. Place a votive candle inside and line the driveway or pathways with the tin can luminaries, or insert a wire at the top and hang from the branches of trees and shrubs.

Other Yard Ornaments

• Wind chimes make for sound sensory beauty in a lawn and garden. Hang them from tree branches or posts. Make them from seashells, broken china, silverware or cut bamboo. Make a birdbath from an old platter, serving bowl or dinner plate that has been chipped beyond use. Just lay it on the ground next to some plants and fill it with water. Interesting lawn art includes old metal scales, bed frames, broken statues and anything that catches the eye. Paint it with spray paint or house paint, or leave it plain and set it in a prominent position in the yard.