Spoon Crafts Tutorial - Recycling Craft

Spoon Craft Flower

My regular readers know how much of a junk collector I am-- well in addition to cardboard, thermocol , packaging etc ,etc I also cant bring myself to throw away those plastic spoons we are all so bombarded with in our modern life!

My stash became huge recently and I have much more than I can use for every tin in my kitchen! So my daughter and I decided to do some crafting with our spoons! Sharing some ideas for spoon crafts

Spoon Crafting 

Spoons-- In our house we have all shapes and colors! Most of them ice cream spoons [ Yeah we eat a lot of ice cream!!]

Spoon Crafts

You can create crafts using the whole spoon [ like in our spoon craft doll]or cut off the cupped part to make spoon craft flowers like we did.

How to cut spoons

Spoon Crafts

Most spoons can be cut easily with a scissors.

Some are however brittle and break if you use a scissors- In such a case soften the plastic by running through a candle flame a couple of times and then cut with the scissors-- The flame can discolor your spoon black but this can be wiped off .

Spoon Crafts

For making spoon flowers a glue gun is indispensable -- you can magically make all kinds of flowers!

Here is our most basic flower- made by sticking the back of the spoon on a disc of thick card.

Spoon Craft Flower

These lovely shaped spoons are from the Mc Donalds ice cream sundaes! We stuck a glitter flower [from my blogger pal Snehal who so generously sent me these Pie Lane metallic flowers] at the center

Spoon Craft Flower

My daughter chose the designs and which flower went on top!

Spoon Craft Flower

We stuck a double layer of spoons to make this spoon craft flower!

Spoon Craft Flower

I glued the pink tiny spoons to a paper cone to make the center of this spoon flower

Spoon Craft Flower

My 5 year old gets some amazing ideas sometimes and after our intial crafting experiments she declared she wanted a "3 D flower" which was popping up and  this is what we came up with

Spoon Craft Flower

Without a glue gun this would have been impossible I think!

Spoon Craft Flower

When we got bored admiring our white spoon lily, we painted it pink to make a pink Spoon Lotus!

Spoon Craft Flower

I think the cream one looked better..... what do you think?

Spoon Craft Flower

We found lots of uses for these spoon flowers----

• Secure to a ribbon and use as curtain tie backs
• Car hanging
• Xmas tree decoration- add a loop of ribbon or string
• Add as decoration on a gift box

Also sharing a spoon craft doll my 5 year old brought home from her craft class at school!

Spoon Craft Doll

I just love this spoon ballerina!

Spoon Craft Doll

Do tell me how you liked our spoon craft ideas.

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Edited: This Spoon craft was featured at Grant Life and Inspire me Fridays-- Thank You Ladies for liking our simple crafts.

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