Recycle the Summer Challenge. Disposable Picnic Spoons
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6 Materials
1 Hour
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I had some leftover wooden disposable spoons. I love using these in my projects. I use them in the summer for barbecues and picnics. I decided these were going to be my recycled summer project. But how was I going to use them.
I started to arrange them and found the heads looked like petals and flat they looked like a flower. I had done a sunflower pot in another project, but I had used the handles and had stuck them upright.
I got my supplies together.
I went searching in my craft storage, and I found a wooden Turkish delight box, so with some of these spoons, some left over paint for wood, left over from another project. Some glue and some wooden beads, I was sorted.
I cut the long handles off the spoons and arranged the heads around the top of the box to fit. Then I put them aside.
I took off the labels from the box, and cleaned it up with some soapy water, but I didn't want to soak it as I didn't want the wood wet.
Then I took some cupanol fence paint and I painted the spoons back and fronts yellow, also the box lid yellow and for the base i chose orange, just because the colours looked great together.
First layer of spoons.
Once the paint was dry, I laid the spoons back on the lid and then I used wood glue to stick them on. I then added more spoons on top, layering them between two lower spoons.
I painted the middle orange and then stuck on some brown wooden beads from an old beaded curtain.
Added beads to middle
Once the glue had dried, I coated the whole thing with a thin coating of PVA glue. You could use varnish, but I chose PVA because it dries quicker and the box wasn't going to be used much apart from being a decorative box.
I am really pleased with this, especially as everything I used was recycled or leftovers from other projects, so this didn't cost me a penny.
The. Finished box.
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It would also be so pretty as a wall hanging without the box under.
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Found it! Nice!
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very decorative! like this idea!
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Thankyou
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