Sunflower Vintage Gumball Machine

There’s nothing more fun, funky, and creative than a vintage thrift store gumball machine repainted and decorated for Summer with my fave thing in the world….SUNFLOWERS! This decorated gumball machine is a huge statement piece for any room decorated in a Sunflower theme and will leave people asking “Where’d you buy that!?”

Sunflower Vintage Gumball Machine with sunflower heads inside and on top, and sunflower and bee mini wood bead garlands hanging form the top and coin turner. Gumball machine is painted all white.

I am OSD. Obsessive Sunflower Disorder! So of course I had to do my Vintage Thrift Store Gumball Machine in Sunflower theme.

I also love decorating in a fun and funky- non traditional- way.

So as soon as I saw this Vintage gumball machine at a local thrift store, good ‘ole Quality Thrift, I just knew it was coming home with me!

This bad boy wasn’t white like this when I got though. I gave it whole makeover before it made it to the decorating phase. Make sure to check out the transformation to see how I took this thrift store flip from Drab to Fab!

Vintage Thrift store flip. Gumball machine painted all white sitting on a front porch.

The best part about this vintage gumball machine is that is can be decorated over and over for any season or holiday. I think my fave was jazzing it up for Christmas from head to toe (or from base to top LOL).

But for now, it’s summer so we’re talking Sunflowers!

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Supplies Needed to Decorate a Vintage Gumball Machine for Summer

Vintage Gumball Machine – You can get them on Amazon if you can’t find one at a thrift store!
Sunflower Heads
Mini Sunflower and Bee wood bead garlands

How to Decorate a Gumball Machine in a Sunflower Theme

The possible ways to decorate your Vintage Gumball Machine are endless but I decided to keep it simple!

I can’t wait until we move into a bigger house so that I have more room and opportunity to decorate and get fun inspirational pics for you guys! But until then, these will have to do. Just imagine it in a big beautifully decorated entryway with Sunflowers everywhere!

We did an entire Sunflower tiered tray theme month a few months back and during that time we made not one, but two mini Sunflower and Bee Wood Bead Garlands. I took them off my tray and played around with using them on the Gumball Machine.

Top portion of the vintage gumball machine filled with sunflower heads and a sunflower on the top with a Bumblebee wood bead garland hanging off the side.

You could put them on the coin turny thingy, or you can hang them from the top. Either way looks adorbs!

Mini bumblebee yellow and black wood bead garland hanging from the coin turner of the white vintage gumball machine.

Or you could always put one on top AND one on the bottom like I did.

I filled the entire gumball machine with Sunflower heads from good ‘ole Amazon, that was sent to me in Happy Mail from one of my amazing crafty Facebook friends.

Top of the vintage gumball machine stuffed with sunflower heads.

Add a Sunflower head right on top for extra adorableness!

I can’t wait to decorate my Vintage Gumball Machine again for Fall! This will be my first time adding little pumpkins inside, so stay tuned for that makeover.

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