diy patriotic spoons

June 11, 2013

We make a lot of hand churned ice cream in my family and the batches are huge…so, ultimately we eat a lot of ice cream also. A really fun thing to do when serving ice-cream, particularly at the beach, is to decorate disposable spoons for the occasion. This is a fun and easy way to add a festive spirit to your beach or yard get together.

For our upcoming Fourth of July bash on the beach, spoons of the patriotic variety are in order!

I am providing some easy DIY directions for you to make patriotic spoons, but there are so many more ways you can personalize spoons with your own colors or themes just by using different colors, motifs, or letters…so be sure to experiment!

Here are the supplies my project required:

disposable wooden spoons*
permanent stamp pad ink in red and blue
a sponge cut into a thin rectangle, approximately ½” wide and at least 1” long
a pencil with an unused eraser
an X-Acto knife
natural twine
red & white baker’s twine
glue

I used the X-Acto knife to very carefully cut a star shape into the eraser of the pencil to use as a stamp. Then I cut a strip of sponge ½’ wide to use as my stripe stamp.

These two stamps will serve as the way to imprint the stars and stripes on the handles of my spoons.

Using the stamp pad ink, I added the stripes and stars to the spoons using my stamps. Using permanent ink ensures the ink doesn’t come off on hands or clothes should the spoon handles get wet.

Striped disposable spoons are easy to make and give a festive flair to any get together!

For a fun addition, I added some twine “finger grips” to some of the spoons by simply wrapping twine around the spoon a few times – adding a dot of glue on the beginning and ending spot of the twine.

That’s it! Easy, right? And so cute! They are hard to throw away!

Going back for seconds on the ice-cream? Don’t want to lose a favorite spoon? You can always wear your spoon as a necklace ; ) … just add some extra twine! Problem solved.