How to Make Plastic Spoon Flowers

Use up your leftover plastic spoons in a way that will keep them out of landfills and give you an item you can use as a decorative touch around your home. Make your own plastic spoon lilies in just a few minutes with inexpensive supplies from the craft store. Use the lilies to adorn a shelf, tacked up on your wall or as part of a festive centerpiece at a little girl's birthday party.

14 plastic spoons
Drinking glass with an opening about 3 inches in diameter
Cardboard
Low-temperature hot glue gun
Button, 1 inch wide
Green felt

Instructions

- 1
  Cut off all but 1/2 inch of the handle of the spoons.
- 2
  Trace the opening of the drinking glass onto the cardboard. Cut out the circle of cardboard.
- 3
  Glue five of the spoon heads evenly spaced around the edge of the cardboard circle using the 1/2 inch of handle you left attached.
- 4
  Glue another five spoon heads inside the first ring of spoon heads, alternating their placement so that the second ring of spoon heads are positioned in front of the gaps between the spoon heads in the first ring.
- 5
  Glue the last four spoon heads inside the second ring in a cross positioning. Glue the 1-inch button in the center of the spoon flower.
- 6
  Fold a piece of green felt in half and cut two 2-inch long leaves from the felt. Hot glue one end of the leaves to the underside of the cardboard circle so the leaves extend out opposite sides of the flower.

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