Easy DIY Flower Frog

If you're looking for an easy, reusable alternative to floral foam, you're going to love this simple DIY flower frog. These homemade frogs are perfect for holding stems upright in vases, jars, or shallow bowls—and they’re a great way to reuse everyday materials.

Whether you're arranging fresh garden blooms or want to try your hand at sustainable flower arranging, this DIY method works beautifully. Scroll down for the step-by-step tutorial.

This is an easy DIY frog for flowers using florist wire. It's a perfect way to fit odd-sized vases and containers with frogs for flower vases. Flower flogs allow you to make creative floral designs by holding the stems of flowers in place. Due to popular demand, I have written and share a ton of pictures of beautiful flower frogs on the Vintage and Antique Flower Frog post!

If you like fun vases, peek at this mason jar wall vase tutorial I wrote. And if you like fun containers, here is an easy tutorial showing you how to paint your planter.

Why Make Your Own Frogs

Making your own flower frog is an easy way to create floral arrangements without using floral foam. Floral foam may be convenient, but it's not reusable and isn’t great for the environment. This DIY version gives you a simple, sustainable option you can use again and again.

Homemade flower frogs are also incredibly versatile. You can fit them into just about any vase, bowl, or container—even shallow or oddly shaped ones that might not work with traditional frogs. Whether you’re arranging a few stems from your garden or creating a centerpiece, this DIY option helps hold everything in place.

They’re also inexpensive to make. If you have a mason jar lid ring and some wire, you’re already halfway there! Once you’ve made one, you can easily create more for other containers around your home. These are especially handy if you like putting little flower displays in places like the bathroom, windowsill, or kitchen counter.

And best of all? They work. The flowers stay where you place them, which makes arranging faster and easier—no professional skills required.

Materials

You don't need much, and you probably have this at home.
All I use is florist wire. Use what you have, or use colors that coordinate with your vase if you don't want it showing. This is what it looks like. Green is a more popular color but this is the one I had handy.

Instructions

You are making a custom sized one, so let's be a little creative.

Step 1
Find something to use as a guide for the size. Don't laugh, but a big can of peaches was precisely the size that would fit snuggly into the vase.

Step 2
Then, I wrap the floral wire around the can 5 or 6 times so that it has a little strength. The floral wire is woven back and forth. I aim to have spaces between the wires that are about ½-inch squares. This is a quick, easy, and disposable (potentially) vase frog, and perfection doesn't matter. No one will see this after you have filled it with your plants.

Step 3
After you go back and forth with the wire, turn a ¼ turn and weave the wire so you have squares like the ones below.

Check to make sure the flower frog fits into your vase. Fill your vase with water.

Step 4
Arrange the flowers, so they are the way you like.

As you can see above, perfection is not required when making the frogs!  But this easy homemade floral frog does help arrange and support the flowers in your vase. Keep this DIY in your back pocket and you'll have a much easier time arranging flowers.

Vintage Glass Flower Frogs

These are turning into an obsession for me. I love wandering through antique stores to see what I can find. These are often now more of a collectable but I love the feel of them and like using them.

Below is how to actually use them. They get placed on top of a vase (or nestled slightly in it, depending on the size of the vase). Stems are placed in the holes to keep the flowers upright and orderly.

Below is by no means a flower arrangement, but I wanted you to see the effect. See how the florist frogs keep these tulips standing upright!

Pin Frog

Old antique frog pins for flowers are floating around at vintage stores and even the occasional yard sale. They look like some dangerous contraption. You can buy this style of floral pin frog through Amazon.  

The picks are sharp!  They are supposed to be so that you can anchor your flower stems on them.  This flower frog gets placed in the bottom of the vase, and then you press the flower stems down on them.

I feel I need to show you how these are used, although they are not part of the tutorial.

Mason Jar Flower Frogs

If you are looking for something to support your plants that doesn't look so dangerous, these mason jar flower frog are popular.

Sometimes you don't want to buy something like this. Floral frogs are easy and cheap to make. They are fully functional and can be made to any size.

FAQ's

DIYs for Flowers and Planters

Printable Instructions

Another vase idea is this mason jar wall vase.   I loved this one because my naughty cat can't get to my flowers : )

Mason Jar Wall Vase

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