Here are a few ideas for making your own car air fresheners to hang on your rearview mirror. They are extremely quick and easy to make.
You'll have the best smelling vehicle in the neighborhood when you quickly make your own car air fresheners that dangle from the rearview mirror. A department store or craft store carries the supplies you need like stretch cord to hang the freshener and fragrances to make it smell good.
A thick piece of corrugated cardboard can serve as the base for the freshener. Use a cookie cutter or a stencil and draw the pattern onto the cardboard. The design should be about four to six inches in length. Smaller designs tend to lose the fragrance quicker and larger ones can block the view of the driver.
After cutting the shape carefully peel the cardboard board layers apart in the middle. Peel about two thirds of the way down then attach hanger with a dot of white glue. Place drops of fragrance on both inside pieces of the cardboard. Eight to ten drops on each is usually efficient. Allow to dry for an hour or so. Spread glue in the center then put the two cardboard sections back together. Hot glue can also be used to make this project. Secure with clothes pin or heavy object to hold until dry.
Go ahead and hang the air freshener or make it look a little more impressive with felt. Cut two pieces of felt out in the shape of the air freshener. Glue one felt piece to each side of the air freshener. Now use a cotton swab to "paint" the felt with fragrance. Let dry then hang on rearview mirror.
You can cut stacks of felt to make the freshener rather than using the cardboard center. Fusible web makes it a little stiffer. Iron the felt and the fusible web pieces together then glue on additional felt pieces to have the desired thickness. The felt or the cardboard-centered air fresheners can each have more fragrance added to them at any time by sprinkling or spraying on fragrance. If they become dirty simply toss and make another.
Make air fresheners for your vehicle out of foam pieces which come in shapes of fruits, animals, flowers and more. Or cut your own shape from a solid piece of thin crafting foam. Use a disposable make-up removing pad or a piece of flannel for holding the fragrance. Soak the scrap in the fragrance and then lay it on one of the foam shapes. Glue the hanger onto the same shape then place the two shapes together with glue. Hang in vehicle. Instead of a piece of fabric soaked in fragrance you can also use tiny slivers of perfumed soap or a piece of netting with a thin layer of dry potpourri.
You can make little potpourris out of a piece of lace or cloth. Cut the cloth in a square or cirlce then fill with dry potpourri. Gather edges and tie with a long ribbon. Tie the ends of the ribbon to the rearview mirror and let the aroma fill the air. When the fragrance begins to disappear rejuvenate the freshener by spraying with liquid potpourri or by quickly making another sachet.
