Taking a cooler and making this styrofoam planter.
There are not gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Pillips
MAKE YOUR OWN STYROFOAM PLANTER FROM A COOLER
I belong to several creative Facebook groups and I love seeing other people’s creativity.
Recently, I came across a Styrofoam planter made from a cooler from Lisa. Here’s what I LOVE about this project…
A lot of these inexpensive coolers are used and then tossed or hopefully recycled. You can usually pick one up for a couple of bucks for a picnic or outing. After that, you either have to store it or find something to do with it. Sometimes people donate them however not all places take them.
PLANTER INSTRUCTIONS
**This project is best done outside.
Take a bread knife and remove any lip on the edge and the sharp square looking edges.
Using that same bread knife, rough up the outside of the cooler.
Use a heat gun to harden the outside of the Styrofoam. Do NOT keep the gun on the foam very long…just wave it around.
Drill holes in the bottom for drainage.
Lisa used leftover paint, instead of a concrete mix, for the outside.
Add plants.
Isn’t it great?
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That looks like concrete on the outside! How cool is the textured look! Love it! What a great idea! It drives me nuts that styrofoam containers are still used. Just commit people to the real thing! ha laura
Laura, Isn’t it a fun way to use it up? It’s so sad these are disposed of so quickly and often not recyclable.
I would’ve never guessed that was a styrofoam cooler!
Amy, right? Such an awesome way to salvage those coolers.
Fabulous idea! And so simple!
Thank you Maria!
and it would be so much lighter than a cement one to move… great way to use up something that is already clogging our landfills, good idea, wow Canada agrees
Yes, way lighter!!
Very clever idea! I think I have one of those coolers somewhere deep in our backyard shed. Pinned 🙂
Thank you. Better go dig it out and put it to use. Lol.
This is such a clever alternative to hypertufa and I think it looks even more like natural stone than hypertufa.
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Thank you Vanessa.
My insulin is shipped once a month in one of these. I hate throwing them away too. I’ll try this in the Spring
Yay. I hope you do.