Your garden - Recycled tins and paper

Or recycle your old tins and newspapers using modge podge glue

Cacti

1. Start off with some sand at the bottom of the tin, or small stones

2. Then mix in soil from your garden and a bit of compost

3. Make a hole for your cactus

4. Break a small bit of cactus off the one at your parents house that you love

5. Plant it and compact the soil around it

6. Get some light coloured stones to cover the top

7. Give about a teaspoon to tablespoon of water a week and put in a high-light area

Tin decoration

1. Take off the old paper on the tin

2. Cut a strip of newspaper that will fit around the tin...use a ruler or craft knife to make the cuts so the edges are neat

3. Apply a layer of modge podge glue to the tin

- instead of buying the expensive stuff, give put a tub of wood glue in a bowl

- then refill the wood glue container with water till it is 1/3 full

- Mix the water with the glue and you are ready!

4. Apply the newspaper and allow it to dry

5. Apply another layer of glue and allow to dry

6. You can keep going with a few more layers of the glue if you would like to make the covering sturdier and less likely to get damaged if you spill water on it while watering