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DIY Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots

Use pouring paint to decorate these terracotta clay pots! It's such an easy and fun gardening craft.
Active Time20 minutes
Drying Time1 day
Total Time1 day 20 minutes
Yield: 1 pour paint pot
Author: Debbie Chapman
Cost: $2

Equipment

Materials

Instructions

Step 1: Find what you need

  • Gather your supplies and materials.
    Paint Poured Pots Supplies

Step 2: Prepare the pot

  • Paint the outside of the pot with white acrylic paint. This provides a neutral background for the pouring paint, stopping it from being absorbed into the pot.
    Allow to dry.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots
  • Press a piece of painter's tape (or masking tape) on the inside bottom of the pot, covering the hole in the bottom. This will prevent paint from going inside the pot.
    You can also cover the whole outside bottom of the pot with tape if you'd like, since you won't see the painted bottom anyway.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots

Step 3: Combine your pouring paints

  • Choose your colours of pour paint. Pour a generous amount of the lightest colour (white, for us) into the 2 ounce disposable plastic cup.
    This will be your paint mixing cup.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots
  • Add your other colours of paint to the same mixing cup. Add your second colour (teal, for us) on top of the white paint. Then pour in your third colour (pink).
    Alternate adding more of your second and third colours (teal, pink, teal, pink, etc) until the cup is full of paint.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots

Step 5: Pour paint onto the clay pot

  • Make sure you protect your working surface with a plastic drop cloth and/or a tray. A tray or turn table base is useful, since you can turn the pot without touching it.
    Set a larger plastic cup down, bottom up, and then set the pot on top of it, also upside-down. The clay pot should be sitting above working surface, not touching it.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots
  • Begin pouring the layered paint onto the pot, starting at the top (the actual bottom of the flower pot). Go back and forth, pouring the paint over the sides, creating a marbled look.
    Continue until you're happy with the look and the pot is completely covered in paint.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots
  • If the paint starts pooling at the top, use the edge of a popsicle stick to push it over the side.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots
  • Once the paint has stopped dripping, wait a few minutes and then brush a popsicle stick along the top (current bottom) rim. This will remove any large drips, stopping them from drying in place.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots
  • Allow the pot to dry, untouched, overnight.
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots
  • Your pour paint flower pot is complete!
    Paint Pouring on Terracotta Pots

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Notes

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