How to Make Gold Acorn Vase Filler {Even if You’re Not Crafty}

Make a beautiful gold acorn vase filler in 3 simple steps, no crafting skills required. This is one of the easiest acorn crafts and is the perfect way to bring fall inside your home!

On a recent walk in the park with my kids, I noticed that they started carefully picking up and collecting acorns that they had found lying on the ground.

Acorns are like little magnets that draw you in and make you want to pick them up.  Each one of them has its’ own unique shape, size, and color.

Before long, I found myself down on the ground with my kids collecting acorns.  I just couldn’t help myself!

We brought them home, and I knew that these acorns would make a great decoration with a little help.  They needed just a little something…

With a stroke of genius, I got out my Martha Stewart Metallic Paints, got to work, and ended up with these little jewels.

Aren’t they beautiful?

The metallic bronze and gold paint gave them just the sparkle they needed, while still maintaining the beautiful, rich browns of the acorn itself.

Want to make some gold acorn vase filler too?

Your home will thank you.

You can use these pretties for decorating for fall in any way that you like. This is definitely one of the easiest acorn craft ideas around!

Gold Acorn Vase Filler

• Martha Stewart Metallic Paint in bronze and gold (or other bronze and gold metallic paint)
• Paintbrush
• Acorns
• Glue gun

How to Preserve Acorns for Crafts

The first and most important step for all DIY acorn crafts is to bake your acorns.

There’s a good possibility that there are little critters inside them.  Baking the acorns for an hour at 200 degrees will kill them.

Better safe than sorry!

Painting the Acorns

After the acorns have baked and cooled, paint the dark acorn bottoms with bronze paint, and the little acorn tops with gold paint.

Finishing up the Acorns

Once the metallic paint has dried, glue the acorn tops onto the acorns.

That’s it.  Aren’t they stunning?

I love the way these gorgeous bronze and gold acorns look in my Pottery Barn leaf bowl.

They’re also pretty on rustic wood stands.

These lovely acorns make a pretty gold acorn vase filler.  Just fill up a vase or bowl with them for a nice fall accent in your home.

There are so many fun ways that you can decorate with these golden acorns.

Get creative, try making this fun acorn craft idea, and then have fun finding the perfect way to display them in your home!

You might also like these fall crafts:

• Easy DIY Fall Thanksgiving Wreath
• Boy’s Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat
• Easy DIY Fall Headband (for boys or girls)

Happy crafting!