Flower Pot Crafts: Garden Themed Bridal Shower Activities

Hop on the summer floral parade! Especially if you are planning a garden themed bridal shower, you couldn’t ask for a prettier party setting than an entire season in bloom! So why not bring some of that natural beauty into your bridal shower decorations? Serve a light menu and garden-themed sweets. And prepare a hands-on craft activity that celebrates summer!

These 7 flower pot crafts we are sharing actually serve a double purpose. Your guests get to spend fun pre-wedding time with the bride-to-be. Plus they get to take home floral-themed keepsakes to enjoy for the rest of summer. We promise, these crafts are definitely doable—thanks to the ready-made kits and supplies we found. Just take your pick! (*This post contains affiliate links.)

Flower Pot Decorating Kits & Supplies

These first 2 finds provide ready-to-craft supplies for decorating your own mini flower pots. Just add potting soil and small fresh plants—and enjoy!

1 – DIY Flower Planting and Growing Kit

This garden craft kit includes 30 paper flower pots to be decorated with strips of EVA foam “grass” and adhesive foam stickers in butterfly, flower, and snail shapes. Just fill with potting soil and add small plants and succulents.

2 – “Let Love Grow” White Mini Flower Pots for Succulent Favors

In this set, you get 20 pcs. of small terracotta pots with a matte white bisque finish—and bearing a sweet bridal shower message in gold calligraphy. Just provide drainage pebbles and soil for guests to scoop into the pots and pop in a cute succulent!

DIY Flower Pot Decorating How-To’s

These next 3 finds are actually tutorials from crafty sites. So you can just set up the supplies and a work space at the bridal shower—and turn out the prettiest DIY flower pots!

3 – DIY Scrapbook Paper Flower Pots

Thanks to Karianne of Thistlewood Farms, here are simple steps to turn plain clay pots into these lovely plant holders: from cleaning and priming the pots, to painting them white, then attaching scrapbook paper flower-cutouts with Mod Podge, and sealing with a water-based sealer.

4 – Color Block-style Painted Pots

How cool are these mini pots painted in fun colors with a gold bottom? Originally from The Pottery Barn blog, we discovered this tutorial via The Garden Glove. Basic materials are terra cotta pots (the saucers are a cute touch), acrylic paint, and gold spray paint. Then, to fill them: assorted succulents, potting soil for cactus, and aquarium gravel.

 

5 – Mini Ombre Painted Flower Pots

For a softer, ombre-style effect, check out this detailed how-to from Emily of Small Stuff Counts. Your guests can decorate small terra cotta pots in graduated shades of acrylic paint and end up with these charming containers. No painting skills needed!

Sweet & Simple with Seed Packets

This last set shows how you can use store-bought or self-stamped flower seed packs to create bridal shower favors and mini table decorations in one!

6 – DIY Seed Packet Table Name Holders or Favors

From our very own post from years back comes this clever table name craft for a garden-themed wedding event. You can easily turn it into a bridal shower activity, where guests “plant” seed packets into mini pots and take them home as favors.

7 – DIY Stamped Seed Packets

Among the lovely offerings on the Rubber Stamps site, we found this step-by-step craft using their Seed Label Stamp. With mini craft-store bags, sticker paper, stamping ink, and your choice of flower seeds, guests get to make pretty seed packets for their own springtime blooms at home.

So while summer is in the air, make the most of it for your bridal shower plans—with these fun and floral-themed ideas for guest activities!