How to Decorate Flower Pots with Mosaic Tiles
Updated: Mar. 21, 2024
Learn how to decorate flower pots to suit any style with this surprisingly easy garden craft project.
Mosaics are a stylish addition in any garden, and make for a fun garden craft project. Just take an ordinary terra-cotta pot, and give it an eye-catching new look. Stones, glass beads and even broken plates and mugs can become part of your mosaic masterpiece. Once you learn how to decorate flower pots using this method, you’ll be looking for old pots to try out your new skill!
Materials:
- Terra cotta flower pots
- Tiles or broken china pieces
- Tile cutters
- Polymer-fortified thin-set mortar
- Sanded group
- Hammer
- Butter knife
- Gloves
- Wire brush and cloth
- Buckets for mixing mortar and grout
Step-By-Step Instructions:
Step 1
Wrap a tile in a cloth, glazed side down, and strike it with a hammer. Lay out the pieces and modify with tile cutting pliers as needed. Then chalk the design layout onto the pot
Step 2
Mix a polymer-fortified thin-set mortar with water until it’s the consistency of peanut butter. Spread it on one tile piece at a time with a butter knife and stick the tile to the pot. Repeat, leaving space between pieces as shown. Let set overnight.
Step 3
Mix sanded grout with water to the consistency of peanut butter. Wearing gloves, slather the grout liberally over the pot’s surface, rubbing it into the spaces. Wipe off excess with a wire brush and cloth. Allow to dry. Seal grout if desired.
