Chalkboard Vase

{Tutorial & Easy DIY}

I’ve mentioned recently my love for chalkboard paint. 

After creating the pumpkin chalkboard, I wanted to paint something else.  Looking around my house for what I already had, I thought it could be fun to paint a vase!
There are lots of different options already on Pinterest, but here is what I did with mine.

What you will need:

* Vase {mine was a rectangular glass vase}
* Chalkboard paint
* Painters tape

I wanted just a portion of the vase to be ‘chalkboard.’  {But you could paint the whole thing too!}

First, I decided how wide I wanted my ‘chalkboard’ strip to be.  Then I put painters tape on the glass above and below the width of the chalkboard size I wanted.

Next, I painted the open area between the tape. 

Let it dry, and then paint another coat with the chalkboard paint.  I ended up doing three coats.

When the paint is dry, carefully peel off the tape. 

Now, put something fun in your vase and chalk-it-up!

I had planned to tie a thin strip of burlap around the vase and put something festive and ‘fall’ in the vase.

Little man, however, saw it and decided it would be a perfect place for his Legos to hide.   

Sure, why not!  

I guess the vase is multi functional!  And, since you easily erase chalk, it can have multiple identities.

What will your vase hold?!

Chalkboard Pumpkin

I kind of love chalkboard paint.  In fact, if I wasn’t living in a rental house, I have all sorts of idea of what I could do with it! 

I can’t paint any walls or cabinets, but I wanted to paint something with chalkboard paint.

When little man and I went to the dollar store to buy pumpkins for another project, we bought a four pumpkins.   Since we only used one, I thought
I’d try to paint a pumpkin with chalkboard paint.   Why not!? 

I do like how it turned out.  And, little man loves coloring all over the ‘chalkboard’ pumpkin!  

Super easy.  Inexpensive.

And, a different and fun new surface for little man to decorate!

Make one today!! 

Blue- eyed boy and his pumpkin chalkboard creation!