Home Decor for Less- Making Spoon Mirrors
These spoon mirrors were all the rage about a year ago. Basically you buy some plastic spoons, glue them to a cardboard piece, paint them and put a mirror on. Not hard to do right? And, you can wow people with your new mirror that ‘can’t be made with plastic spoons?’ so I wanted to try. Honestly, it was harder than it looked. BUT, I think it’s still a doable project, and I have two of these ‘kewl’ mirrors in my house – “kewl’ because the minion’s friends think that these are pretty neat looking projects
When I set out to make these spoon mirrors. I wanted to find the mirrors first. I didn’t think it would be that hard to find them. It’s wasn’t terribly hard, but I had to go to the craft store to find the round one, the square was easy to find at Walmart. I spent about $4 for each mirror.
Use a pair of clippers to clip the spoon handle off, I clipped it right at a joint spot on the spoon. Do this a million thousand times. No, it will just feel like that many. Place your spoon into a bag or something to keep them contained. I tossed the handles, but you could be more creative than me and make something with them. I’m sure now that I recycled them, I will need a thousand to make a really cool craft. Because life is ironic like that.
Create your background. I used some pizza boxes that were clean, and cut around using a compass stretched out as big as I could. You could tie string to a push pin and a pencil and make a bigger mirror.
I have a mix of photos from both square and round mirrors. Begin working on the outside edge. Try to line your spoons to the same spots, using hot glue to adhere them. The hard part, when you do your next row, place your spoon between the first row spoons, so they are overlapping.
You may have to fudge the spacing a bit to get around the corners. But try to make sure that all the corners match.
Go around and around with the round frame. I didn’t worry too much about gaps, because when I spray painted, I made sure I got the cardboard too, so the color wouldn’t stand out.
Spray paint your piece, then paint several more times to get a solid amount of color.
My square mirror is almost the same. I used an antique gold to go well in another room.
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Great idea, thanks for sharing!
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I may be doing this soon--thanks so much for the idea!
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