Or if you’re feeling really festive, you could even stick sparklers in them! (Or kebab sticks to simulate sparklers if those are illegal in your state….) Once they’ve dried enough to not give off enough fumes to kill your family/pets/plants, bring them inside and style them as a beautiful centerpiece! Watch all that fruity goodness disappear under a few layers of toxic paint!
You might think that spray painting a pineapple is hard, but it turns out that it is incredibly easy and satisfying. You’ll also need a few cans of spray paint. We used “Banner Red” and “True Blue” - how much more patriotic does it get? Unfortunately they didn’t have “Freedom White”…. Unfortunately we couldn’t find a fox, pink house, or palm trees, but we sure found ourselves some pineapples. Or maybe a fox carrying a pineapple-shaped purse in front of a pink house surrounded by palm trees. If DIY blogland has a mascot, we’re pretty sure it would be the pineapple. Step 8: Take close up shots that make it hard to actually see the finished product to prove that you are a real blogger. Bandana optional but highly recommended if you are a true patriot. Step 7: Style with tiny American flags that are definitely a fire hazard. Step 6: Add tea lights, also from your stash. Use a funnel if you don’t want patriotic rice spilling all over your counters. Step 5: Pour layers of rice into your mason jars. You can use only colors you want, but for this project we obviously wanted to honor America. Step 3: Put a few drops of food coloring into ziploc bag. If you don’t have a mason jar stash, hang your head in shame, you are not a real blogger/DIYer. Step 1: Grab a few jars from your mason jar stash. For this project, we whipped up a variation on mason jar candles using some rice and food coloring. Obviously no DIY party decor is complete without mason jars. Can you spot the plant among these actual Independence Day crafts? So instead of our usual approach of coming up with a few different absurd projects, instead we decided to recreate a few popular ideas we saw online and then come up with just one of our own - and then ask you to guess which ones are real projects, and which one we came up with while trying to be as ridiculous as possible.
How could we possibly make them more bloggery? Maybe we just don’t get patriotic party decor? Our usual humor recipe is to use a concept that is overdone in the blogosphere and take it up a few levels of ridiculousness by adding even more blogger-y elements (hence adding mid-century legs and an anthropologie knob to a pumpkin…), but when we were looking at Fourth of July crafts to inspire us it honestly felt like all of them were already about as ridiculous as they could get. We’ve been meaning to put together some Fourth of July crafts for awhile now, but frankly we’ve found it challenging. If you’ve missed these in the past, be sure to check out such classics as our magnificent cork chandelier, our raccoon trinket dish, our greenery-themed dinner party, and of course that time we put mid-century legs on a pumpkin.
Don’t say we’re not committed to this thing. One of our favorite pastimes is not-so-gentle-mocking of this world we’re part of, including investing our precious and limited time in making satirical craft projects. While we love DIY blogging dearly, as you know we are also quite aware of how ridiculous the blogosphere is.
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