Simple, fun and easy enough for kids to make. Fill a bottle with homemade flavored vinegar or olive oil and cork with your handmade stopper.  There are also many recipes for flavored vodkas and fun liquors. You could even put homemade lotion in a fun cork-able bottle. My bottles will be filled with homemade Irish Cream liquor (I’ll share that recipe later).

Supplies:

1 1/2″ wood ball knobs
acrylic paint
acrylic primmer
acrylic polyurethane
bottle corks
gorilla glue or hot glue

Lightly sand wooden ball and then wipe with a damp cloth. Once ball is dry ( a minute) prime the ball with acrylic primer.  When the primer is completely dry  give your ball a base coat of color and then begin painting your design.  I stick a wooden dowel or the end of a paint brush in the hole of the ball so I have something to hold onto while I paint. The wooden dowel can be stuck into a piece of styrofoam so the ball can dry. Once your painted design is finished and dry, give your ball two or more coats of polyurethane. Allow polyurethane to completey dry between each coat.

I have tried many brands of acrylic polyurethane and I am partial to this one.

Glue the ball to a cork.  Be careful if you use Gorilla glue, it can be messy but it is strong!


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Comments

  1. Should the top diameter of the cork be 3/4″? I can’t find corks with 3/4″ bottom diameter. What do you buy?
    Thanks,
    LeAnn

  2. Thanks for the info. I’ve been wondering how to make these for the past 6 months. These will make some great Christmas gifts for my wine enthusiast friends!

  3. What size corks do you use? I did a search online and was overwhelmed by the number of sizes for tapered corks. Thanks!

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