Whether it’s for birthdays, bar mitzvah’s, a wedding or a baby shower this DIY is cute and clever way to ask your guests to give the gift of their presence or money instead of gifts.
For baby showers … most new moms need help with the expenses instead of baby clothes that they will grow out of immediately. For a couple getting marries, many of them don’t need the essentials to furnish a house but rather some moolah to help their journey as husband and wife. And for birthdays, let’s face it. Money is always the right size and the right color!
So let’s get started!
- Basket or bucket to use as the well
- White paint
- Paint brush (large-at least 1″ thick)
- Small artist paintbrush
- Twigs (stack of varying lengths)
- Twine or wire
- Small galvanized bucket
- Small flowers or greenery to jazz it up
- Sign (small frame or chalk board to announce to your guests the wishing well)
How To:
1. Take your basket and dry brush white over the wood to make it look aged and feminine.
2. Take the sticks together in your hand (about a fistful) and wrap the wire or twine around the bundle. Continue wrapping until you have enough to use as the handle of your wishing well.
3. Attach the twig bundle to the box with the wire.
4. Decorate your small, galvanized bucket if you wish to. Use initials for the baby, birthday boy or girl, or couple if it’s a wedding.
5. Write “wishing well” with the small paintbrush on the lower box.
6. Attach the galvanized bucket to the top of the twig handle.
7. Take your flowers and greenery to the handle and decorate as you see fit.
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XOXO,
Paige