Flip Flops Take Out Menu Holder

Jewellmartin
by Jewellmartin
2 Materials
$3
1 Hour
Easy
While on vacation, we found a Take Out Menu box. Having the menus helped us to decide where we wanted to go out to eat, where to drop in for take out food, and where to call for delivery. Very helpful!

This is the inspiration!
In the condo, this lightweight wooden printed box was on the kitchen counter. The menus and ads in the box were very helpful. And I loved the flip flop design.
Cheap materials!
I had already made a stop at a beachside Everything’s a Dollar store, a small chain of five stores along the same beach. This was a tourist souvenir place (not Dollar Tree), but I managed to find $24 worth of things I might use on crafts.
For this project, I only spent $2, plus some incidentals like a few cents worth of paint and hot glue.
When I am in the checkout line at a store, I look for empty display boxes for candy and other impulse buys. These come prepackaged for display, so the empty boxes will not be used for display again. I ask for the boxes and almost always am given them. The blue box above held little notebooks.
$1 Flip Flops Hot Glued!
The first construction step was to hot glue the flip flops together so I would have a surface to write on. I could have glued the shoes in the normal position, but there would have been an instep gap right where I needed a writing space. So I turned the right hand flip flop upside down and hot glued them together where the met.


Bright words!
I next wrote out the words I wanted, straight from the box in our condo. The surface of the flip flops is covered with tiny bumps for some ergonomic reason, so getting straight lines was near impossible.
I used a red permanent marker to outline the letters, but I didn’t worry about imperfections. Btw, I wrote Take Out Menus. I would have spelled it Take-Out Menues, but I decided to copy the model.
Pink letters!
The next step was to fill in the spaces with 50-cent paint bought a year ago. It was really hard to get a photo because it was sunny outside and dark inside. The paint filled after 2-3 coats. And it blended with the red outline nicely. The letters show up against the blue of the shoes.


Free beach shells!
The next step was to glue seashells collected by my husband and grandson onto the shoe straps. It took some extra hot glue for some of the shells, which I had washed and dried. Since these flip flops were not to be worn, I used a variety of shells and other sea life. There is a tiny sand dollar, and one piece of coral.
Shades of pink!
I painted the edges of the shoes a bright pink. The best thing I did was to feather the pink edges into the edges of the shoe tops. This made it look like sandy flip flops.


See the box?
When everything else was ready, I glued the shoes to the box, making sure the heels were level. I used a few dots of blue marker to cover a brand name. Nothing else showed from the box.


From the front view!
The box doesn’t show from the front view, and the flip flops show what’s inside, which happens to be a few local restaurant menus.


One more view!
This is the view that kept distracting me, but it was worth the delay.
Suggested materials:
  • Shells, flip flops, $2   (Everything’s a Dollar beach shops)
  • Markers, paint, hot glue, less than $1   (Walmart, Dollar General)
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