Garden Stakes for Easter or Mother's Day

I love wandering around the garden in the late summer when we have family over for dinner.  One of my mothers in law is a very successful gardener and she always ends up poking around my humble little patch.  I wanted to make some fun garden stakes so that even if the plants turn out to be not much to look at again there will be something interesting to see and talk about.

I picked up a package of twelve stakes at the Home Depot for about $3.00.  The paint and sealer was left over from another Mother's Day craft project two years ago.  The Bug and I were able to paint all the stakes in about 30 minutes.  The next step will be to write fun sayings on them like, "Grow Darn It!"with the Sharpies and then coat them with the sealer.  The Bug really likes the green ones so I think that set might be ours.  I plan on tying them together with some pretty white ribbon and a homemade by The Bug card.

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Here is a photo of the finished stakes just in time for Easter!  The stakes say "Grow Happy", "Eat Me", and "Dig Deep."  The Bug wasn't interest in making 3 cards so we printed off Easter coloring pages and the kids colored them instead.  Cute huh?