With the continuous deepening of urbanization, high-rise buildings are rising, which makes the area of green plants become smaller and smaller, which makes potted plants popular among people. Small potted plants can not only grow a variety of plants, but also can be placed in a variety of locations. Flower POTS are not only ornamental, but also can purify the air and prevent radiation when placed indoors. Have you ever thought about making your own flower pot when you’re free? Let’s learn how to make our own cement flowerpot mold.
Mold for making cement flower POTS
Handmade DIY environment-friendly cement inverted mold flower pot needs these materials: disposable paper cup, plastic cup, foam bowl and other disposable tableware, fine sand, cement, petroleum jelly, straw, a large plastic cup.
1. Get your materials and DIY tools ready.
2. Pierce the bottom of a disposable cup or bowl with scissors and insert a used straw. Coat the straws and cups with vaseline or paraffin wax to facilitate moulding. Place the straws and cups inside a larger plastic cup and fill the Spaces between the cups with cement mixed with sand and gravel.
3. Until the empty space between the cups is filled, pull out the straw and set it aside until it dries.
4. After the cement is hard to fall, the mold can be produced. Now wait until a cylindrical cement flowerpot, and there is an outlet formed by inserting a straw at the bottom of the flowerpot.
5, not only disposable cups and bowls, in fact, some slightly soft plastic containers, such as jelly bottles, tinfoil egg tarts and other domestic waste products can also be used to make other forms of inverted mold cement flower POTS.
How to make a simple cement flowerpot
It is a plastic basket, affixed with a layer of barbed wire on the surface, and then mixed into pulp with cement and sand. When it can be kneaded into a group, it is applied to the wire. It is thick enough to wrap the barbed wire in cement. The basket was fastened to the table.
Apply the four sides first, then apply the bottom, after the complete application, wet the hand gently pat the surface, not only make the cement into one, but also modify the surface. You can get some peat on it, so it dries naturally.
In a few hours, you can turn it over and cement the rim of the basket again. You don’t need to cement the inside of the basket.
How to make different kinds of flower POTS out of cement
Tools:
cement
die
scraper
Plastic gloves
Method:
1. Prepare the mold you want, put a plastic sheet on the mold, pour cement into it, and press tightly.
2. Insert a “filler” (the filler can be some bottles, cans, or foam) to create an internal holding space.
3, cement can almost finalize the internal filling out, while not completely hardened on the inside and outside corners, shape dressing.
4, air until all dry can be removed from the outer container and remove the plastic sheet, and drill a water outlet at the bottom.
5, molding cement flower pot is not very beautiful.
Make your own cement pot mold, buy some plant seeds, plant them in your own cement pot, water them, fertilize them, and wait for them to sprout and blossom. This is really a very happy thing, you will find the beauty of life. There are a variety of materials in the current flower pot, but the cement pot is harder, so it has a longer service life. For those who grow flowers at home, I suggest you use more cement pot and make your own cement pot mold.
