Easy DIY Car Diffusers
Our 9 year old has a market day this year at school. It’s part of their economics lesson. She has to advertise, and “sell” a product. The preference was for it to be something that was made at home, but the option was available for purchasing complete products and reselling those.
I had already made a DIY car diffuser for my car, as well as several other family members and friends. She saw them and asked if she could use them for her market as well as teacher appreciation gifts. I think it would make a great and original teacher appreciation gift as well…and if I’m being honest, I’d love it as a Mother’s Day gift, too!
DIY Car Diffusers
You’ll need just a couple things:
Clothes pins (wooden ones are easiest to hold the glue)
Felt stickers or wool balls. (Felt flower stickers, Felt frog and monkey stickers or Felt stars are some good ideas, but there are a ton of options)
Small bottles to gift with essential oils
We left the paper backing on the backs of the stickers. It actually helped them stick better to the clothes pins and not collect dust.
Once the glue gun was properly heated, the 9 year old put a line of hot glue on the end of the clothes pin that you squeeze.
Then, the 7 year old put a felt sticker on each clothes pin and we allowed them to dry.
It took about 5 minutes to do almost 50 DIY car diffusers that can be sold at the school market. And, I imagine quite a few teachers will be receiving them a teacher appreciation gift in a few weeks.
For the purpose of selling, we added a couple drops of our favorite car freshening essential oils (she chose lime, citrus fresh and peppermint on various felt stickers) and took a picture of them attached to the car vent for advertising.
For gifting, we will include the little small bottles with a portion of essential oils so the gift recipient can “recharge” the diy car diffuser as desired for maximum air smelling freshness.
I like an easy craft project that my girls can pretty much accomplish on their own (I supervised the hot glue gun usage) and have a great gift idea or sellable product in no time.
What a cute and easy idea!
OMG these came out so cute! I’m totally making some of these! What a great idea.
What a great idea
SOLD. Stress away in all of the places.
This is such a cute idea! Definitely pinning this one.
Thank you – I love how simple, affordable and adorable these are! You saved me from my Amazon impulse buy! Time to visit the Michael’s clearance bins instead!
So glad you found it useful and affordable!
Really awesome ideas and tips that everyone can follow through.