Paint a Miniature Black Cat Planter for A Doll's Garden

       Make your doll's garden festive this year with a black, Halloween feline planter. I purchased the faux flowers for this craft at a dollar store. The terracotta pots come in sets from both dollar stores and Targets, but you can also find these at local hobby shops everywhere.

A black cat pot with large blue eyes and fuzzy tail.

Supply List:

• miniature terracotta pot(s)
• acrylic paints: black, blue, pink, white
• black yarn
• one cotton ball
• black construction paper
• hot glue and hot glue gun
• artificial flowers from 
• aluminum foil
• green felt

Step-by-Step Directions:

1. First paint the outside of your miniature terracotta pot with black acrylic paint. Let it dry.
2. Crush aluminum foil to fill the inside of the miniature pot. Poke holes into this foil in order to support the faux, flowers.
3. Remove the flowers after determining where these will go.
4. Next, cut up small pieces of green felt to cover the foil showing at the top of the pot. Hot glue this felt around the holes made for the flowers.
5. Cut two, small black triangles from the black construction paper. Glue these onto the pot for cat's ears. (see picture above)
6. Paint a smaller white furry triangle inside the black ears to mimic a cat's ear.
7. Paint a cat's face onto your Halloween planter using white, blue and pink acrylic paints. (see photo)
8. Hot glue a piece of black yarn directly onto the surface of the pot and curl it around the side to look like a tail.
9. I wrapped a small piece of cotton on the end of my cat's tail with a bit of glue.
10. Now poke the artificial flowers back inside the pot's holes at the top of the planter. Now you can display a cut Halloween cat in your doll's garden!

The Ghost of a Flower.

"You're what?" asked the common or garden spook

Of a stranger at midnight's hour.

And the shade replied with a graceful glide,

"Why, I'm the ghost of a flower."

"The ghost of a flower?" said the old-time spook;

"That's a brand-new one on me;

I never supposed a flower had a ghost,

Though I've seen the shade of a tree."