DIY Painted Sparrow Chargers for a Spring Table
Here’s another dollar store Spring decor project! You know those plastic gold chargers Dollar Tree sells? I gave them a makeover for Spring!
When I was planning for my Spring table this time, I wanted to change things up a little. I usually just do white plates and concentrate on the
centerpiece. Here is the Yellow and Green Spring Tablescape I used these chargers in.
But then I thought...
Let’s play with the plates this time!
I was in the dollar store and saw their gold chargers and clear plates. And I had a vision of painting the chargers with a design that could be seen through the clear plate.
Yep, those plastic gold chargers.
So I headed over to the craft aisle to look for a stencil or transfer design. They usually have something cute.
This time nothing jumped out at me that I wanted to use for this project. That was disappointing because I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on this project.
Thankfully, Hobby Lobby came to the rescue with this super cute sparrow stencil for only $1.99!
Here's Everything I Used:
- Gold chargers (from Dollar Tree)
- White chalk paint (from Walmart)
- Sparrow stencil (from Hobby Lobby)
- Paint brushes
- Green acrylic craft paint
Here's How I did it:
First, I gave the chargers two coats of chalk paint.
To get the paint all around the decorative edge of the charger, I
brushed from the edge toward the middle.
That dried quickly. Then I placed the stencil in the center of the charger. I eyeballed its placement.
I used this pretty Spring green acrylic craft paint that I already had to paint the stencil, but any color that speaks to you can be used.
I used just a small amount of paint on the brush, almost a dry
brush. If the brush has too much paint on it, the paint will run under the stencil and ruin the design.
I held the stencil down with one hand and lightly pounced the paint into the stencil.
Since it was such a light coat of green paint, I went back over it with a second light coat right away without moving the stencil.
Then I carefully pulled up the stencil.
If there was wet paint on either side of the stencil after that, I wiped
it off before moving to the next charger to avoid any smears.
If there were any little smears or smudges of green, I just touched it up
with a little bit of the white chalk paint.
After all of the paint was dry, which didn’t take long at all, I gave each charger two coats of matte clear finish spray.
The chargers look so cute topped with a clear plate! I was really happy
with how they turned out. Now my wheels are turning for what colors and designs to paint on chargers next for every season! I have so many ideas!
What design would you paint on dollar store chargers? Let me know what your ideas are in the comments!
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Love it!
It would be interesting to see the green paint on the beaded edge. Just an extra detail to add to the design.
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Just beautiful. Lots of possibilities!
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why is the plate called a Charger? What is its function?
This gave me an additional idea. After spray painting the charger? I'd mod podge a pre-painted spring napkins or rice paper to the center. I'm terrible @ stenciling. You did a wonderful job!
Do you have your own diy paint booth? If so, I would like to see instructions on that. What is the gray tube coming in for - ventilation, heat, exhaust?