Dried Gourds are great for crafts as well as using outside for birdhouses. They last for years when painted and provide a habitat for beneficial birds. Gourds can be cleaned quickly using a bleach water solution and then painted. All you need to decorate gourds is an imagination or in some cases a picture!

Apple Gourd

Base made of a Swan or birdhouse gourd burned and painted to make a vase.

Base of Swan or birdhouse cleaned and wood burned.

Snowmen painted on Chinese Bottle Gourds.

Santa Claus painted on a dipper gourd.

Ghost and pumpkin painted on a swan gourd.

Penguin painted using a dipper gourd.

Grinch painted by a local artist using a Chinese bottle gourd.

Canteen Gourd given to us by boy scouts.

We have many varieties of dried gourds:

African Bottle Gourd
Apple Gourd
Birdhouse Gourd
Caveman Club
Chinese Bottle Gourd
Dipper Gourd
Swan Gourd
Snake Gourd