"Doing up" plastic pots

Has anyone done up cheapy plastic pots to look nicer? These would be for indoors use.

The look I'm after is "white, chunky, wonky". (Oddly, that reminds me of someone)

I'm quite happy in painting the sturdier decorative types, after light sanding the paint stays on well. Now I have found a good place to buy pots exactly the size I need but I doubt any paint will grab thin, shiny plastic. So I thought of alternatives.

Wrapping them in rags soaked in glue and once dry, a thin layer of air dry clay could work to get a thicker wall that is sandpaperable.

The glue rag-and-clay creates quite a strong shell, below is The Egg I made on chicken wire skeleton. It took months so a short cut of using plastic pots as the innards appeals to me very much

Wrapping a glue soaked chunky string around them might also look fun but I'm not sure of steady hands nor patience

These are the pots I'm after (in various sizes).

 

Slight rub down with some sandpaper/wet and dry, paint with acrylic paint in whatever colour you require. Jobs a goodun