Resurrection Garden How To Make One Fast, Cheap, And Easy Confession I have been drooling over pictures of resurrection gardens online for years now Ive always wanted to make one, but never seemed to have gotten around to it. Dont miss a thing Sign up for the Lil Luna Newsletter today There have been several people who have asked me to show how to add text to pictures easily. It. You have not yet voted on this site If you have already visited the site, please help us classify the good from the bad by voting on this site. Planting the grass seed and trying to predict when it would actually look nice felt overwhelming. Well, guess what We finally did it, and Im going to show you how easy it really is plus, with this version, it looks nice instantly Supplies Needed To Make Your Own Resurrection Garden Something large and shallowish to plant it in. I used a plant saucer that I got at Lowes. It was a little over 5. I got a plastic one rather than terra cotta because I didnt want it scratching up my table. A small terracotta pot for the tomb, or you can turn a plastic cup or a tin can sideways. OuAcPdxdRW0/UPmChyx7SyI/AAAAAAAACLo/xsaqSkIOue8/s1600/parade-banner.jpg' alt='Watch Patrick`S Day Putlocker' title='Watch Patrick`S Day Putlocker' />The pot I got cost. A flat rock, about the size of your tomb. Dirt. Small rocks. Small plants optionalFlowers in a pot something with small, low flowers. I chose thrift. optionalSticks for making crosses. Hot glue gun. Moss. The kids are so excited to get startedI found this section at Lowes with really affordable tiny plants they were with the cacti, so Im assuming theyre desert y. I chose 3 to go in our garden. I tried to get a variety of textures, and pick out plants that looked like big plants shrunken down. You could also just dig up various small plants from your yard. Mostly online, Ive seen versions of these resurrection gardens where you plant your own wheat grass, and wait for it to grow in. I chose to use moss in our Resurrection garden, and heres why It looks great right away no waiting. This means you could even build this on Holy Saturday or Easter Sunday. Limerick-St.-Patrick%27s-Festival-555x471.jpg?itok=N_0UH1p2' alt='Watch Patrick`S Day Putlocker' title='Watch Patrick`S Day Putlocker' />It will look good longer. If you use grass seed, once the grass gets really long, it starts looking weird, then you can cut the grass, but it wont look natural and there will be clippings everywhere you get the picture. Im expecting this moss version to hold up through the entire 5. Easter if we keep it watered. Ill let you know how it turns out. Moss actually looks like tiny grass, and the whole point of this is that its a miniature. We found our own moss, and just pried it up out of the ground with our hands. The kids filled a bucket for me, and had a great time. Start by gathering your supplies, and setting your potted plants just about where you think you want them in your container. I put the flowers in the back, and staggered the little ones around. Make sure you leave room for where your tomb is going to be, and room to build the hill behind it. Start filling around the plants with dirt. Watch Rookie Of The Year Online IMDB. Keep filling until the dirt is just a little bit lower than the lip of your container. Now, lay your small pot, cup, or can on its side. Put your large rock over to the side like its rolled away from your tomb. Start filling dirt around the back and sides to make a hill over the tomb. Take small rocks and make a path leading up to your tome. I let Violet age 4 do this completely on her own. Start filling in with your moss, tucking it wherever it will fit. Go hunting for small, straight sticks, and hot glue them into cross shapes. You need 1 big one for the middle, and 2 smaller ones on each side. Stick them down into the dirt, and pack it in tightly around the bottom of them with your fingers. This will hold them up. Thats it Once all the moss is in place, your garden is instantly ready No need to wait for sproutlings or anything. We even had some of our Easter peg dolls drop by the garden. I cant even tell you how pleased the kids are They keep staring at it, and petting it, and saying I cant believe how nice it looks, Mommy I am so glad that I practiced self restraint and let the kids do it rather than doing it for them to make it perfect even when they put all the greenest moss in the back. This is not even a blog post I intended writing, but I had taken the kids to the park, the weather was beautiful, and I just thought to myself, You know what I should go to Lowes and get the stuff for a resurrection garden. The kids would love that So glad I listened to me. We really enjoyed this. Find all of my Christ Centered Easter activities here.