Valentine’s Day Plant Gift Wrap with Printable Tags

Valentine’s Day gifts can be difficult to choose, especially if you are not very romantic by nature. I enjoy Valentine’s Day crafts because winter can feel long, and it is nice to bring a bit of color and happiness indoors when everything outside feels white and grey. Hubs pretty much ignores Valentine’s Day. He is happy if I make a dessert and is otherwise pretty meh about the whole thing. This year I decided to make a Valentine’s gift to share, but I am going to keep this one for my office.

Valentine Plant Gift Craft

I prefer artificial plants for lots of reasons, mostly because the little sweethearts do not live long around me. The artificial plants at IKEA are some of my favorites because they are inexpensive and easy to find. This little IKEA Fejka plant had been sitting on my bookshelf looking rather boring in its simple black pot, so I gave it a feminine makeover as a Valentine’s Day gift idea I hope you love.

Supplies for the Plant Gift

For this Valentine’s Day gift idea, you will need a few simple supplies.

If you do not use the Fejka plant from IKEA, choose a plant with a 3.5 inch pot. A small plant works best for this type of plant wrapper.

Besides the plant, you will need to download the wrapper template, along with some scrap paper and a pretty Valentine themed cardstock. I had three papers to choose from and ended up using the ripped wallpaper cardstock.

How to Make the Plant Gift Wrapper

Start by downloading and printing out the wrapper template. Cut scrap paper into a 12 by 12 inch piece and fold it in half. I used brown paper, but old wrapping paper or newspaper are also good options. Place the dashed line of the downloaded template along the fold, then cut and open it to create your pattern.

Cut the circle from the downloaded template.

Line up the wrapping pattern along the bottom corners of your cardstock and place the circle where you have room.

Cut out both pieces.

Covering the Bottom

Place the cardstock circle with the good side facing down and add a large dollop of hot glue to the middle. Crinkle fold the edges of the cardstock around the flower pot by pushing the cardstock up all the way around.

Once the cardstock is folded, glue around the outside and hold the paper until it adheres to the pot. As the glue hardens, continue to press and flatten out the cardstock as much as possible.

Attaching the Outside Wrapper

The bottom of the template has a small curve cut out. This is to accommodate the curve of the pot bottom. Line up the curve on the bottom of the template with the bottom of your pot. Attach it using glue a bit at a time. Continue working a little bit at a time until the curved section is attached. You will still have the wrapping portion at the front to attach.

As the cardstock is quite thick and stiff, you need to fold the cardstock around the pot, making sure not to crinkle the paper. Once you have the cardstock wrapped around the flower pot, you can then go back and repeat the process, but this time glue the front edges of the wrapper to the pot to secure it..

This is what the first corner looks like.

Once the first side is folded, continue folding and bending the second side of the paper. Overlap the fronts as shown.

Once both sides are folded and the paper is smooth, glue the front flaps to the plant pot.

Adding Simple Embellishments

Pull out a foot of twine and adhere it to the back center of the plant pot using hot glue. Wrap the twine around the flower pot twice, tie a pretty bow in the front, and glue it in place.

I then glued a small pink button to the top of the paper overlap using hot glue.

To finish it off, I wrapped a length of pink twine around the pot and tied a simple bow at the front. You could use lace, or even a wide satin ribbon if you want something a little prettier.. I had a few options, but the twine felt easy and unfussy, and it works well year round, which is what I wanted for this little plant.

Free Printable Valentine Plant Tags

To add some pizazz to the Valentine’s Day gift idea I created some softly coloured green and pink Valentine’s cards.

You can download, print, and cut them out to add to your plant. The other small Valentines you see are just hand cut hearts I made using leftover bits of scrapbook paper.

You may want to save this idea for another winter afternoon.

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