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Fancy Plastic Spoon Mirror
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Arlin Romano
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When looking for a decorative and fancy wall feature, making one is super easy and inexpensive. Here's how I did a fancy plastic spoon mirror in less than an hour.
- Cardboard or pizza box carton
- 5 packs of 25 white plastic spoons
- small/medium round mirror
- spray paint of your preferred color
- hot glue gun & scissor
STEP 1 - Trace a large circle. Inside the large circle trace your mirror.
Step 2 - Cut all spoons as shown above. Use hot glue gun to glue around the small circle. NOTE: glue the spoons inside of the circle line so that when the mirror is placed on top it will cover the trimmed part of the spoons.
STEP 3 - Keep gluing the spoons as shown.
STEP 4 - If you glue a spoon and feel its off, remove it and glue again. at the end you should have something that looks like picture shown above.
STEP 5 - Sit the spoons on top of anything high off the ground so you can go around the spoons spraying evenly. (on this picture I placed it on the ground, therefore you can see the off tones when spraying)
STEP 6 - After 2 coats, this is the end result. I didn't want a dark gold.
STEP 7 - Since the mirror is small, hot glue worked all around the mirror and glued on top of the edges of the spoons right in the middle. NOTE: if your mirror is bigger, Hot glue gun may not work. Use 1 or 2 round cardboard and stick to the middle space of the spoons before gluing the mirror on top.
This is the final look after spraying silver. I also added little pebbles around the mirror with hot glue. (totally optional)
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Published March 30th, 2017 11:41 AM
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Louise Capra on Jun 06, 2018
I want to try this! Lovely. BUT I want to make it as a wreath for my door. Thanks for the great idea!!!!
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John D. Eyman on Sep 07, 2018
I just might do this but think I will look for the ones that are already silver in color to skip the paint. I sure there are many sources of colored spoons
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Stephen Harris on Jun 25, 2021
Hi, yes, this one uses that approach: https://www.hometalk.com/diy/decorate/mirror/how-to-decorate-a-mirror-with-disposable-spoons-43694034
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i really love love this. Do you think I could put something instead of the mirror and use for a wreath for my door. I would love that and it seems to be easy enough for me to make. Thanks