Repurposed Salad Tongs Into DIY Christmas Trees
Repurposing is one of my favorite things to do, especially kitchen items because I can often find them at thrift stores for next to nothing.
Like these three lightweight salad tongs, which cost me just 25 cents each.
The cheap metal salad tongs are very easy to bend into a tree shape.
Then I glued the ends together, one on top of the other, with hot glue in a shape that I liked.
I glued a small tart tin on top so I could see where I wanted my garland to start. For this tree I'm using a pink bead and metal chain thrifted necklace.
I simply wrap the necklace around the salad tong tree.
And I glue at the sides as I make my way down so no glue is visible at the front.
The beauty of this is that you see the necklace garland on both sides for a double effect.
To finish off my salad tongs tree I glued a light reflector and a pink bead into the centre of the tart tin as the tree topper, and then I glued the tree onto a vintage jello mold as the trunk.
Salad tongs trees can be wrapped with rope, twine, ribbon, lace, beading, trim... whatever you like really.
This is a fun and easy project with loads of possibilities.
To see more pics, info, and the other two trees that I made to go with this one pop over to my blog post here.
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So creative, I love it!!
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Totally adorable!! Love it!🖒🖒😊
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Thanks very much Marc!
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