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Festive Fall Planter Box

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Today I am showing you a very quick and easy way to decorate a fall planter box.

DIY tutorial to make a fall planter box with natural elements found at craft stores. A great alternative to a traditional fall wreath for your front door!

This sits about two feet from my front door and normally I would hang a wreath on the door and throw some gourds in the planter and call it a day. But this year, I decided to decorate my planter a little more and do away with the traditional fall wreath altogether.

You gotta change it up.

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DIY tutorial to make a fall planter box with natural elements found at craft stores. A great alternative to a traditional fall wreath for your front door!

I grabbed the top to my bushel basket and a scrap of burlap. Bought some dried seed pods, dried mushroom sponges and feather things at Hobby Lobby. And sprung for a greenish pumpkin shaped gourd at the farm market.

DIY tutorial to make a fall planter box with natural elements found at craft stores. A great alternative to a traditional fall wreath for your front door!

The bushel basket top went in the planter first.

I was going to buy some of that rectangular floral foam, but peed my pants when I saw how much it was. OK, it was just $3.99 a brick, but I would need two and that was a little too rich for my thrifting sole.

So I decided to just use a pool noodle instead.

DIY tutorial to make a fall planter box with natural elements found at craft stores. A great alternative to a traditional fall wreath for your front door!

We’re not using the noodle anymore this year and rather than store it, why not put it to use. I just chopped off the length I needed.

I decided to not use the burlap after all and just hot glued some left-over-from-Spring bagged moss to the pool noodle instead. Sure, I could have left it neon blue, but glue guns are so fun. And the blue was so gaudy.

DIY tutorial to make a fall planter box with natural elements found at craft stores. A great alternative to a traditional fall wreath for your front door!

I placed the pumpkin where I wanted it

DIY tutorial to make a fall planter box with natural elements found at craft stores. A great alternative to a traditional fall wreath for your front door!

and then I just stuck the feathers, seed pods and mushroom-like things into the floral foam pool noodle until I had an arrangement I liked.

DIY tutorial to make a fall planter box with natural elements found at craft stores. A great alternative to a traditional fall wreath for your front door!

Super easy.

I had everything on hand except for the seeds pods, mushrooms and feathers and they set me back about $10.00 all together (1/2 price at Hobby Lobby).

DIY tutorial to make a fall planter box with natural elements found at craft stores. A great alternative to a traditional fall wreath for your front door!

So instead of a traditional wreath for your front door (yawn), try a fall planter box.

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  11. Olive Cooper

    You knutt, love the pool noodle idea. I am scared of glue guns and do not own one and maybe that is why I never craft. Yes? The arrangement is charming and I would certainly charge thirty bucks for it without batting an eye. xo, olive

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