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Often, when we go outdoors and have a picnic, we take plastic spoons with us.
After this, as a rule, there are still many of these spoons left, and they are stored in the cabinet for a long time.
Don't throw away plastic spoons. Even more than that, buy a few more spoons so that you can make a beautiful craft or even several crafts.
Here are some interesting crafts that can be easily made using plastic spoons:
1. Plastic spoon crafts: decorate your kitchen wall
You can use both plastic spoons and stainless steel spoons (as in this example), but it is much cheaper and more logical to use plastic ones.
You will need:
Spoons
Acrylic paint
Brush
Glue (superglue)
Wooden tablet.
2. Create a beautiful DIY flower vase using plastic spoons.
You will need:
Can
Plastic spoons
Scissors
Acrylic or spray paint (if desired)
Brush.
1. Prepare a tin can. You can paint it.
2. Use scissors to cut off the top of each plastic spoon.
* It is advisable to first decide how many rows of spoons will cover the jar and how many spoons are in each row. In this example there are 8 rows of 15 spoons.
* If you want to paint spoons, then place them on a flat surface, prepare the paint and come up with the color you want for the future vase.
* If you use spray paint, you should paint outdoors and preferably while wearing a protective mask.
* You can combine paints - one row of one color, the other of another.
3. When the spoons are ready, think about which direction they will face and start gluing them to the jar.
Here's what you should end up with:
3. Crafts from disposable spoons: sun-shaped clock
You will need:
Plastic spoons (in this example there are 250 of them)
Scissors
Superglue or hot glue gun
Styrofoam
A watch, photograph, small mirror or other interesting item
Bolts and screwdriver
Stationery knife.
1. Cut a circle from foam plastic. In this example the diameter of the circle is 45 cm, but you can make a circle of any size.
You can cut using a stationery knife.
2. Find the center of the circle and mark it to attach a photo, mirror or other object. For the watch, you need to cut a hole of the required size in order to change batteries, wind the watch, etc.
3. Cut off the tops of the spoons using scissors.
4. Begin to carefully glue the spoons in a circle, completely covering the foam. You should start from the edge of the circle and, gluing in rows, move towards the center of the circle.
*If you wish, you can paint the spoons. Use spray paint, but you need to paint outdoors or in a well-ventilated area (garage, open balcony).
*In this example, I had to add a couple of squares of foam to attach the clock to the foam.
* Instead of a clock, you can glue any photograph, picture or small mirror.
4. How to make a Christmas tree from plastic spoons
You will need:
Plastic spoons (in this example there are 100 of them)
Superglue or hot glue
Scissors
Acrylic or spray paint
Brush
1. Use scissors to cut off the top of the spoons.
2. Start gluing the spoons to the cone, starting from the bottom. Glue in a checkerboard pattern and continue all the way to the top of the head.
3. Paint the Christmas tree any color. You can use acrylic or spray paint. You can also leave a Christmas tree white or use spoons that were already painted when you bought them.
5. Crafts from spoons: tags for the garden
You will need:
Plastic spoons (in this example there are 4 pieces)
Acrylic paint
Brush
Sandpaper
Brush
Toothpick (if desired)
Black marker
1. Sand each spoon to remove shine.
2. Paint each spoon a certain color, leaving 4-5 cm at the bottom unpainted, because the spoons will be in the ground.
3. When the paint has dried, write the name of the plant, flower, etc., on each spoon with a marker.
3. Using a toothpick and paint, you can make dotted patterns on the spoon - if desired.
4. Let the paint dry before using your tags.
6. Garland of spring flowers and other flowers made from plastic spoons.
You will need:
Multi-colored plastic spoons (in this example, pink and blue)
Thick cardboard or fiberboard
Acrylic or spray paint
Brush
Pom-poms (you can buy them or make them yourself)
Super glue or hot glue gun
Thick thread.
1. Prepare cardboard or fiberboard and cut out three identical triangles. If you wish, you can color each triangle.
2. Cut off the top part of each spoon - these are the future petals of your flower. This can be done with scissors or by heating a knife so that it smoothly cuts the plastic - this method is dangerous, so it is better that an adult handle this step.
3. For one flower you will need 6 spoons, and there are 3 flowers in total in the garland. Mark the middle of each triangle and begin gluing plastic petals in a circle.
4. Glue one pompom into the center of each flower.
5. Make two holes in each triangle and thread a thick thread through them to create a garland.
7. What can be made from spoons: the maracas musical instrument
You will need:
Plastic egg or box that was inside a chocolate egg
2 plastic spoons
Scotch tape or washi tape
1. Fill a plastic egg with a small amount of rice and close it. You can add different amounts of rice for different sounds.
There is no doubt that you have at least once seen all sorts of photos of crafts made from spoons. Such designs look extremely unusual, but you can decorate your home with them without any problems.
After all, crafts made from anything have begun to gain popularity, this is due to the fact that all this does not require expensive materials. Or there is no need at all to spend a certain amount of money for the sake of crafts.
Often materials are used that are completely useless, in other words, garbage (within reasonable limits).
Types of crafts
So, what can you make from unwanted plastic spoons? In general, these can be either flowers or all sorts of elements that can be used to decorate the house. Moreover, this type of crafts can definitely interest children.
Crafts from disposable spoons can be very different, but first you should focus on creating a bouquet of flowers. This time we are talking about tulips. To create such a bouquet we will need electrical tape, corrugated paper, plastic spoons, glue and a brush.
The creation process should begin by cutting the paper into squares, wrapping spoons in squares and finally fixing the structure with glue. The blanks should come out, and then you need to collect the flowers.
The process is quite simple, we fasten two spoons together and add a third on top. We fasten the whole thing with pre-prepared electrical tape.
Cut out leaves from paper. To complete our craft, we need to fasten the flowers and tie them with ribbon.
Decor
Thanks to plastic spoons, you can not only create crafts from them, but also transform old and boring things. For example, a mirror into which you can breathe a second life. The essence of this decoration is to make a new frame for the mirror.
In order to create such a frame, you need quite a large number of spoon, glue, brush, scissors, paint and a piece of cardboard.
But before you get started, you need to take some measurements. We transfer the measurements onto the cardboard, then cut it out into a shape (in a circle) that we will interact with later. Take plastic spoons and separate the main part. Now you need to glue these same spoons to the edges of the cardboard, and you need to do this with the concave part.
Once the design is dry, you can add color to it by simply painting the spoons. It is recommended to use spray paint as paint, as it is evenly sprayed over the entire surface.
Candlestick
Another option for using spoons would be a decorative candlestick. We will tell you how to make such a craft from spoons below. So, all we need are a few basic spoon parts, a scented candle and glue.
We assemble the structure in the shape of a lotus flower, gradually gluing the spoons. To complete this, you just need to glue the candle itself. This craft is done very simply and quickly, and you can transform your life quite creatively.
Rose
The materials for this craft will need the following: 12 spoons, tongs or pliers, glue, a lighter and scissors. The creation of such a craft should begin with the deformation of spoons. Take a lighter and gradually heat the spoon until it begins to deform, but do not overheat the plastic, as it may simply leak.
To create the mold, we will need pre-prepared pliers. It is necessary to give the spoons the shape of petals, and each subsequent petal should be relatively wider than its predecessor. The first spoon should be rolled almost into a tube.
After deforming the spoons, you need to cut off the handles. Now take the glue and use it to gather all the “petals” together, let the glue dry and the job is done.
In addition to all the above crafts from spoons, you can do something similar not only for the home, but also for the garden. You can make a peacock from spoons or a lamp in the shape of a pineapple, all this will look quite unusual and very creative.
However, it is not recommended to make crafts from metal spoons, because working with metal requires certain skills, and this will be more like damaging cutlery than creating something special.
Photos of crafts made from spoons
Vera Samoilova
Plastic bottles, disposable spoons and glasses - all of this can be given a second life by turning it into decorations for a summer cottage, garden or patio. You just need a little imagination and patience.
Plastic bottles, disposable spoons and glasses - all of this can be given a second life by turning it into decorations for a summer cottage, garden or patio. You just need a little imagination and patience.
For work we need:
-disposable spoons;
Cardboard or disposable base plate;
Glue moment or glue gun;
Paints, colored paper and other little things for decoration.
We cut out a base from cardboard onto which we glue the spoons. We cut off the unnecessary part of the base.
We paint the spoons with paints and sprinkle a little glitter.
h corrugated paper cut out the feathers and glue them onto the cuttings spoons. Glue a cardboard blank in the shape of a bird's body on top. It turned out to be a beautiful peacock.
You can glue the spoons on the other side. Also color, decorate with corrugated paper, a bow and you get a bouquet of tulips.
Separating the deep part spoons from cuttings. We glue them onto a cardboard blank in a checkerboard pattern, starting from the edges to the middle.
Glue the resulting flower onto a piece of green cardboard in the form of a leaf. The result is a water lily.
A little imagination, patience and desire - and with your own hands you can make interesting crafts from, it would seem, no longer necessary things.
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You can create beautiful and original products from almost any material. The main thing for this is the desire to create beauty with your own hands.
Ordinary plastic spoons are perfect for home crafts. You can make bright, interesting, creative compositions from standard and unremarkable items of disposable tableware.
This exciting activity will appeal to both adults and children.
What can be made from spoons
We invite everyone who wants to please themselves and their loved ones with the results of their creativity to the “Crafts from Spoons” master class.
You will see step by step the entire process of forming crafts from plastic spoons.
Tulips
In order to make a charming bouquet of tulips, we will need:
- spoons (5 pieces for each flower);
- colored corrugated paper;
- glue with a brush;
- scissors;
- green electrical tape.
Cut red paper squares. We wrap spoons in each square and seal it.
Then we collect the tulip. To do this, we fasten 2 spoons, add 3 more to them and fix the resulting flower with electrical tape. We cut out the leaves from green paper, attach them to the stem and tie them with ribbon.
We make a bouquet and put it in a beautiful vase.
Water lily
To create a plastic water lily you need to prepare:
- spoons of different sizes,
- glue gun;
- regular glue;
- paints;
- scissors;
- green plastic bottle.
After cutting off the handles of the spoons, attach the future petals with a glue gun. You should now have an inner layer of petals.
Make the outer layer of the flower in the same way. Cut a strip measuring 12x3 cm from the bottle and make a fringe along one of its edges. Roll the strip and secure it with glue.
Paint the fringe yellow and let it dry.
Make leaves from the bottle as shown in the photo.
Attach the dried strip to the inside of the petals - this will be the center of the flower. The magnificent snow-white water lily is ready!
Garland of flowers
A bright flower garland will look very impressive, for the manufacture of which you will need:
- 18 multi-colored spoons;
- scissors;
- glue;
- thick thread;
- dye;
- pom-poms;
- thick cardboard.
Cut out 3 triangles of the same size from cardboard and color them.
Note!
Cut off the handles of the spoons. Mark the middle in the triangles and stick petals around it (6 pieces per flower). Place a pompom in the center of each flower.
Make 2 holes in each triangle and thread a thread through them, thus connecting the flowers into a garland.
Flower vase
Making a cute flower vase will require you to have:
- spoon;
- tin cans;
- scissors;
- glue;
- paints.
Paint the jar your favorite color. Cut off the handles from the spoons. Paint the rounded parts of the spoons in the desired colors.
Glue the spoons to the jar, placing them in even rows.
Note!
ladybugs
You can make a cute ladybug from spoons using:
- spoon;
- glue;
- large voluminous button;
- paints;
- scissors
After cutting off the handles of the spoons, paint the oval part of each of them. Glue the wings together. Attach a button head on top.
Candlestick
To create a sterile original candlestick, you only need the spoons themselves and glue.
By gluing the spoons together as shown in the photo and attaching a candle to the top of the structure, you will get a stylish decorative element that will brighten up any holiday.
Decorative frame
You can also use disposable spoons to create original frames that decorate various interior items.
Note!
For this you will need:
- spoons in large quantities;
- scissors;
- glue;
- polystyrene foam or thick cardboard;
- a watch, a small round mirror, a photograph or another item that is valuable to you.
After measuring the diameter of the desired object, cut out a circle of the appropriate size in cardboard or foam plastic.
Place a watch, photo or mirror in the resulting frame and secure it. Cut off the handles of the spoons. Glue the rounded parts of the spoons to the frame in rows in a circle, from the edge to the center.
Color the finished product of your creativity the way you want.
Christmas tree
Among crafts made from disposable spoons, picturesque Christmas trees are very popular, for the manufacture of which you will need:
- paper cone;
- glue;
- scissors;
- dye.
As usual, cut the spoons into 2 parts;
Glue the oval part of the spoons to the cone in a checkerboard pattern.
We paint the resulting Christmas tree any color or leave it white and admire our creation.
Maracas (musical instrument)
Creating this unusual instrument will take you very little time, but is guaranteed to delight your children.
Prepare the following materials for this:
- 2 spoons;
- plastic egg;
- scotch;
Place a small amount of rice into the egg and close.
Press the sides of the egg with spoons.
Cover the resulting model with tape.
Pumpkin
To make a large bright pumpkin from spoons, you need to prepare:
- spoons of yellow or orange color a lot;
- foam ball.
Cut the handles off the spoons.
Attach the rounded part of the spoons to the ball in a checkerboard pattern from bottom to top.
The top of the resulting pumpkin can be decorated with a small branch.
The process of creating all the described compositions is reflected in the photo of crafts made from spoons. We talked about the most popular and beautiful products from this material and shared secrets on how to make crafts from spoons with your own hands.
We hope that our master class was useful to you and gave you aesthetic pleasure.
Photos of crafts made from spoons
We are used to taking plastic dishes with us when going outdoors. After a picnic there is often a lot of it left over, and you can use it to make beautiful crafts that will please the eye.
Tulip
One such example is the wonderful plastic spoons. For example, a tulip that will “bloom” with the help of plastic cutlery and a few other elements. Take for work:
First you need to make several red squares of corrugated paper and wrap them on spoons. After this, so that the paper does not fly off, we fix it with PVA glue using a brush. We do the same with the remaining four spoons.
Next, you need to fasten two flowers using green electrical tape, and attach the rest of the tulips to them in the same way. Now you need to make about three large leaves per flower from green paper. In this case, the petals need to be fastened with thin multi-colored ribbons. To complete our product, you need to place the resulting tulips in a vase.
Water lily
After this example, many people wonder what can be made from plastic spoons, except tulips. And water lilies would be an excellent option. For this we need:
- plastic spoons;
- glue gun;
- plastic bottle;
- brush and .
First, we will prepare disposable spoons for work by cutting off the handles from them. In order to convey the quality of the water lilies well, we will select the smallest spoons for the central part of the flower. To fasten them together, you will need a glue gun. We do it in exactly the same way front row flower. For the core of the water lilies you will need several yellow stripes. plastic bottle(12x3 cm).
Now the core needs to be rolled up and secured with PVA glue. After the core has dried, you can proceed to the next stage. Attach the core to the petals. We will need several petals, which we will cut out from a green plastic bottle. If there is no bottle of this color, after cutting it is necessary to color the leaves green.
White Rose
White roses made from plastic spoons are very beautiful and natural. As a rule, you don’t have to devote a lot of time and labor to them. For work First you need to heat the spoons for the petals over the fire until they curl up.
It is worth noting that you should not hold spoons too close to the fire, as they can turn black and ruin the appearance. Also warm cutlery it is necessary on both sides to make the petals look more believable. The edges of the spoon need to be turned out with the help of fire so that they look like rose petals.
This is what we do with the petals, which are located in the very middle of the flower. And the edges of the second row need to be heated a little less, since the bud will be open. We bend the third row even less. It is important to know that when heating the petals on the fire, you need to slowly turn the spoon so that the edges are not the same. Now that the petals of all rows are ready (there should be about four of them), you can cut off the handles from them, leaving only the main one - which is the core of the flower.
Then we do the main work - collecting the petals together. To do this, take the core of the flower and PVA glue. We tightly apply another petal to the petal with the handle, and do exactly the same work with the remaining petals. Under the bud of our flower there was a very ugly “butt”. It can be corrected with the help of flower leaves.
To do this, we take new spoons and heat them until the bottom becomes more even, after which we manually cut out leaves from them. We heat the tip of the leaf a little to make a hole in it. Now, as flower sepals, you need to heat the spoon from the inside and cut out the corresponding shape from it. We thread wire into the holes, which can be hidden behind green tape or green corrugated paper.
This completes the work on our rose. But if you want to make it a different color, then you should choose the color for the rose. Spray cans are best suited for painting finished roses. It is recommended to paint the petals first, and then the leaves. But they must be painted before attaching them to the bud.
Christmas tree for New Year
You can make a Christmas tree from plastic spoons as a craft for New Year V kindergarten or for a junior high school student. There is nothing complicated about this product, but you'll need a little more elements for work:
- disposable triangular glasses or wine glasses;
- plastic spoons (about 100 pieces);
- candle;
- glue gun;
- green paint in a can.
The first step is to separate the coasters from the two wine glasses and connect them using glue or a glue gun. We turn over one wine glass and attach it in the same way to the resulting structure. Cut off the ends of the handles on the spoons. Then, using a candle, you need to heat the spoons: you will get bent tips. All that’s left is to attach the spoons with their tips to the wine glass from bottom to top and paint the resulting Christmas tree using a can of green paint.
Birds and insects made from plastic spoons
In addition to flowers, you can also make a mysterious bird - peacock. To do this, you need to paint absolutely all the spoons in a color that relates to the bird.
Now we need the base of the tail, which can be made from cardboard. Make a circle about 20 centimeters in diameter.
You can use yellow cardboard, or you can cover it with colored paper, sprinkle it with yellow glitter or use yellow shiny nail polish.
Let's move on to the body of the bird. It can be cut out of cardboard by gluing the edges onto it cotton swabs, painted blue. Then, cutting off the handle from a plastic spoon, you need to paint the resulting part blue and stick it with the convex side so that it can be seen that this is the head of a peacock.
Now you need to mark an eye on the head (you can draw it yourself, or you can glue a small rhinestone) and glue a black triangular cardboard in the form of a beak. The bird's crest should be made from cotton swabs, coloring them green and blue.
To make simpler crafts from plastic spoons, you can take, for example, insects such as ladybug. Even a child can make such a product using spoons, paints and a large black button. Everyone knows the color of this cute insect, so there is no point in describing it step by step.
Materials for working with crafts
If you have disposable spoons, forks or any other plastic utensils lying around, you should not keep them until a future picnic or throw them away because they may not be useful. It’s better to sit and think about what you can do with disposable tableware. Simple crafts to kindergarten can become your child’s first masterpiece. And family members certainly won’t be bored with such an activity. In addition, you can keep the product with your own hands and use it as some additional element to the interior or give such a creation to your loved ones on their holiday. That's all need to:
In addition to the above examples, you can make other crafts using your imagination. The easiest way is to make flowers from plastic spoons, but if you decide to make your own invented masterpiece, then you won’t have to look for a photo of a sample, and this is already harder. Can be done by ready-made templates, for example, a lake with one swan or a whole family of these wonderful birds. By the way, your imagination can be completely unpredictable, so turn your ideas into reality!
