Inside: The best ideas for making DIY fake succulents and cacti for your home and displaying them.
Last week I was so lucky I managed to sneak in some window shopping in London. Not for clothes, mind you but all the fabulous home interior stores and departments such as Liberty’s, the Conran Shop, Anthropologie and West Elm, plus many more small ones.
Whilst drooling over all the fabulous furniture and accessories, I noticed the trend for house plants. Natural or fake, the trend shows no signs of going away.
Personally, I love fake succulents or cacti, SO LOW MAINTENANCE!
I particularly love the ones that are crafted out of different materials. I gathered some unique ways to make these fake plants for your home. Whether out of paper, yarn, pinecones, fabric, plastic or other material.
Fun Ways To Make Fake Succulents
Get your green thumb ready (or not, because these plants are fake) and learn how to create DIY artificial succulents; some of them look so real your friends will be begging for your gardening secrets. Perfect for those who can’t keep a plant alive or want to add low-maintenance greenery to their space. Let’s get crafting!
20 Unique DIY Fake Succulents
A collection of fun ideas for making fake succulents for your home. Best of all, you won't have to worry about properly "taking care" of these faux plants, watering them, or repotting them, and you can place them anywhere in your home, no matter if there's a lot of sunlight or if it's in the darkest corner, they will still look fabulous.
A Fabulous DIY Fake Snake Plant Made From Old Jeans
After my husband killed the snake plant in his office by overwatering it, I made him one out of his old jeans. This denim snake plant will last forever and is fun to make.
Paper Quilling Succulent Garden
This DIY paper fake succulent garden is fabulous; it is the best one I have seen. The tutorials are great, too; there's even a video—lots of fake succulents to choose from here.
How To Make A Repurposed Felt Succulent Garden
I was so inspired by the quilled succulent garden above. So I made my own out of upcycled sweater felt. I used the leftover felt scraps from other upcycled projects.
DIY Plastic Bottle Faux Succulents Terrarium
The ultimate upcycled fake succulents! They are made from melted plastic soda bottles. Not only that, their terrarium is an upcycled Nutella jar.
How to Make Pine Cone Succulents
Painted pine cones look like succulents, whichever way you paint them, upside down or the right way up!
Felt Succulent Window Box DIY
These are my favourite felt succulents; I love how they are displayed in the window box.
Crochet Succulents in Painted Mason Jars
How do you make crochet fake succulents look even cuter? Plant them in small painted Mason jars! Free patterns.
How to Crochet a String of Pearls Succulent
The pearl necklace succulent is a very popular variety of these plants these days, and it looks great in any space.
Needle Felted Succulent DIY
I do like succulents made out of wool. I think that this needle felted one looks wonderful; great tutorial too. If you have never tried needle felting, I believe this is a great project.
Pistachio Succulent DIY
Another great DIY faux succulent made from discarded nut shells. An excellent excuse to get stuck into the pistachios!
How to Make Potted Felt Succulents
This beautiful collection of succulents in mini pots is made with craft felt.
Air Dry Clay Succulents
Both the pinch pot planters and the succulents are made with air-dry clay.
DIY fabric succulents
Make cool-looking fabric succulents by using pretty patterned fabric. This is also an excellent way to use up scrap fabric.
Duct Tape Succulents and Faux Pinch Pots!
The beautiful & colourful succulents are made with duct tape, and the pinch pots are upcycled melted plastic bottles.
Crepe Paper Succulents
Italian crepe paper is usually used to make paper flowers, but it works just as well when making succulent plants.
Make Your Own Pine Cone Succulents
Another tutorial for making realistic-looking fake succulents from pine cones.
Create miniature cactus from polymer clay - tiny succulents
Polymer clay makes it very easy to make realistic-looking tiny succulents.
Tissue Paper Succulent
You can even make delicate succulents out of coloured tissue paper. These would be a lovely Mother's Day gift for kids to make.
Paper Succulent Arrangement
If you have a Cricut paper-cutting machine, this is the fake succulent DIY!
Felt Echeveria Succulent
This Echeveria plant is made out of felt, and the cute planter is too.
Succulent Planter ideas
If you want somewhere to put your upcycled fake succulents and cacti, check out these upcycled tin can planters.
Or, for colour, check out these upcycled rainbow planters and five-minute Moroccan tile planters. And you can display them all on these upcycled planter shelves.
If you liked these DIY faux succulent crafts, you should check out this fantastic collection of cactus and pineapple-themed crafts ideas.
Sew Crafty Crochet
Wednesday 18th of July 2018
These are all such great ideas! I love cacti and succulents, so I'm pinning this right now! Thanks for sharing at the Summer Time Fun Link Party!
Claire Armstrong
Wednesday 18th of July 2018
Thank you so much. I know you love them I love your scarfs.
Mother of 3
Tuesday 3rd of July 2018
Oh my goodness; who knew there were so many great ways to get that succulent look?? I love these; especially the sweater one. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Summer Time Fun Linky. Pinned.
Claire Armstrong
Wednesday 4th of July 2018
Thank you. I had fun making the sweater felt one.
Julie
Saturday 23rd of June 2018
These projects are all so sweet. I've tried your lovely plastic bottle idea and I've made a crochet cacti in the past, I think the felt is next on my list to have a go at. I think succulents are pretty easy plants to care for anyway but these are even better, just a light dusting once in a blue moon!
Claire Armstrong
Saturday 23rd of June 2018
I’ve knitted a cacti before which looked pretty realistic but I do like the look of the crochet ones. Thank you
Rebecca | R&R at home
Friday 22nd of June 2018
Love these!! So cute!! We'd love for you to come link up at our new party Wall to Wall DIY Wednesday over on R&R at home (www.randrathome.com)!!
Claire Armstrong
Saturday 23rd of June 2018
Thank you, and thanks for the invite.
Marie | DIY Adulation
Thursday 21st of June 2018
These are all fantastic ideas! The best part is I don't have to worry about keeping them alive ;) lol. Seriously loving your paper mache cactus! That definitely needs to find a place in my home. Thanks for sharing your round-up with us at Merry Monday this week!
Claire Armstrong
Thursday 21st of June 2018
Thank you. The paper mache cactus is in my son's room and he loves it.