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Flower Pot Crafts
I like to work with terracotta flower pots because they are inexpensive
and I don't always have a lot of money to spend on crafting.
Turkey
Take a small flower pot and glue a large wooden ball to the bottom. Paint it all brown. Add a fake maple leaf or felt for the tail. Add felt or Fun Foam for the beak and gobler. You can also give him a little pilgrim hat.
Chick
Follow the instructions for the Turkey, only paint yellow and leave off the tail. If you want it to have a little more texture, add feathers or fuzz from pom-poms (I just cut the pom poms up) with glue. Use wiggly eyes for the eyes.
You could also, hang his feet below him, by attaching them with wire to the inside of the flower pot.
Bunny
Follow the instructions for the turkey, painting it white instead and adding a pompom or bit of cotton for the tail. Add felt ears and a straw hat.
Kitty
Follow the instructions for the turkey, painting everything black. Add small triangular pieces of felt for ears, and a pipe cleaner for the tail. Tie a ribbon around the neck and add a small sequin for the tag.
Angel
Paint the pot white. Glue on the wooden ball. Add the hair of your choice (Spanish Moss, yarn, fake hair, etc). Add a piece of pipecleaner or wire for the halo and a big bow for the wings. I've also seen wooden hearts used for the wings.
Uncle Sam
Paint the pot blue and white (see picture above). Glue on a wooden bead for the head. Add white or grey hair (cotton ball or the fake hair) and beard. His hat is made out of felt (or you could probably use striped ribbon if you can find it).
Leprechan
This is made the same as Uncle Sam, execpt the pot is painted green
and the felt used for the hat is also green. I also gave him orange
hair (I couldn't find the fake hair so I used cut up orange pom-poms instead).
Reindeer
Paint a pot brown. Turn it upside down. Add wiggly eyes, pipecleaners for antlers and a red pompom for the nose.
Candy Corn
Looking at the pot divide it into thirds (I generally pick the part that is wider as one third and divide the rest in half). Paint it like candy corn (Orange white and yellow) and add a face.
Snowman
Take three pots that are close in size (but not the same size). Paint them white. Take the largest one, place it on the table upside down. Glue the medium one on top of it (upside down) and the smallest one on top of it. Add a stocking cap (finger tip from glove, or ribbing from a sock), sticks for arms, buttons and a painted face.
You could do a similar thing with flower pots using 4 of the same size glue two sets of two together top to top. Then glue the bottoms of the two sets together and paint them white.
Candle Holders
Take two small flower pots and glue them together bottom to bottom. Tie a peice of ribbon around the middle to hid the seam between the two pots. Glue a taper candle in the one flower pot and fill the rest of the pot with Spanish Moss.
Wind chimes
Take three flower pots of desending size. If there isn't already a hole in the bottom of them, drill one. Next take a piece of string and thread it through the hole in the largest pot. Tie a knot large enough that the pot will sit on it when you hold the other end of the string. Then, below the knot you tied, thread on a wooden bead. Tie a knot below it, so that the bead is still inside the pot (so it can hit against it and make noise). Do the same with the Medium sized pot another bead and the small pot. After the small pot, add another bead. Then you can either stop there, or add an additional decoration such as a piece of broken pottery to the end for decoration. I generally paint the pots with the same design in different sizes.
You can also create windchimes by buying small chimes at a craft store and hanging them from a flower pot.
Cookie Jars
For all cookie jars, use a flower pot and a matching saucer (with the
openings being the same size), for the lid.
Pumpkin: paint a Jack-O-Lantern face on the pot. Add a
piece of dowl rod painted green to the bottom of the saucer for a handle.
Seal with clear paint.
Snowman: Paint the pot white and the rim around the top black.
Paint the saucer black too. Add a small pot glued open side down
to the bottom of the saucer for a handle. Paint a face in black.
Nativity
Scene
Take three pots (one slightly smaller than the other two) paint them
the color of your choice. Glue wooden balls to the bottoms of the
larger two pots. Take a square of fabric and glue on for headdresses.
Take a pipe cleaner and bend for Joseph's staff. For the Baby, fill
the small pot with shredded paper or raffia and glue a small wooden ball
along the one side for His head. I've also seen very small pots used
with wooden beads that fill the entire opening as the whole baby, rather
than the manger with the baby in. In this case, the baby can be laid
on a small pile of straw.