Plastic Spoon Flower Craft
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This little Crocus Flower Craft would be a really cute gift for mom on Mother’s Day or even a cute Teacher Gift. The perfect simple Spring Flower Craft for kids to make.Â
Spoon Flower Craft
In my experience, The first flower to bloom has always been the Crocus flower. It blooms so early, that it has to suffer through late-spring Midwest blizzards. They really are one of the first signs that spring is near, and thank God for That!
When spring is near, I love seeing all of the colorful spring crafts. Over the years, the kids and I have crafted several spring flower crafts together like How to Make Flowers out of Tissue Paper, Pipe Cleaner flowers, or how to make easy Pipe Cleaner Flowers .
Today, I wanted to share this spoon flower craft that represents one of the first spring flowers that I see poking through the ground after a long winter – the crocus flower.
These flowers will last for years as a sweet keepsake.
Why you’ll love this spring craft
Supplies You’ll Need
- 3 plastic spoons – I used purple for one flower and yellow spoons for another
- floral tape
- green pipe cleaner cut into thirds
- yellow pipe cleaner cut into halves
- 1 clear 9oz. cup
- crinkle cut brown paper shavings
- A low temp. glue gun and glue sticks or an alternative to the glue gun, like…Fabri-Tac
Watch my Video on Making this Craft
Watch My Tips and Tricks Video on Making Spoon Flowers
Instructions
Face all three spoons inward, forming a triangle with the handles
Start wrapping the middle with floral tape and go all the way down (this first part is just to get a good hold with the floral tape, so the spoons are held together)
Wrap the spoons again, going all the way up to the end of the handle
Now insert your green pipe cleaner into some spaces on the tape
Insert the yellow pipe cleaner down the center of the spoons so some of the yellow is sticking out of the top
Glue the spoon bouquet to the bottom of the cup and fill it with brown paper
Tips and Tricks for this Spring Flower Craft
Use spoons with wide handles
Plastic spoons with wide ends are the easiest for this craft. Narrow or curved ends are frustrating, and it is difficult to match the ends
Use Glue
If you find that the ends on your spoons will not go together, then you may need to use a low temp. glue gun to secure the spoons so you can wrap them with the floral tape
Trim the Handles
If you can only find spoons with curved ends, you may need to trim the ends to make them straight
Prep for the kids
This is such a fun and simple craft.  The hardest and sometimes frustrating part will be facing the spoons inward and getting them to stay while you wrap them. If you are doing this with very small kids, you might want to get the spoons partially wrapped for them and then hand them over for the rest of the craft. If you get them wrapped from the middle to the bottom, they should be good to go and easy for little ones! They can finish wrapping to the top of the handles.
How to Hold the Flowers Upright
Glue a styrofoam block into the bottom of the cup to push the spoons into
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Plastic Spoon Flower Craft
Equipment
- A low temp. glue gun and glue sticks or an alternative to the glue gun, like…Fabri-Tac
Materials
- 3 plastic spoons – I used purple for one flower and yellow spoons for another
- floral tape
- green pipe cleaner cut into thirds
- yellow pipe cleaner cut into halves
- 1 clear 9oz. cup
- crinkle cut brown paper shavings
Instructions
- Face all three spoons inward toward each other
- Start wrapping the middle with floral tape and go all the way down (this first part is just to get a good hold with the floral tape, so the spoons are held together)
- Wrap the spoons again, going all the way up to the end of the handle
- Now insert your green pipe cleaner into some spaces on the tape
- Insert the yellow pipe cleaner down the center of the spoons so some of the yellow is sticking out of the top
- Glue the flowers to the bottom of the inside of your plastic cup
- Add paper filler around the flower
~Melissa – KidFriendlyThingsToDo.com
I’m the Editor of Fun Family Crafts and wanted to let you know that we have featured your cool spoon flower project! You can see it here:
https://funfamilycrafts.com/plastic-spoon-flowers-2/
If you have other kid-friendly craft tutorials, we’d love for you to submit them.Thanks for a great project idea!
Thank you, Cindy. I’m honored!
Fantastic idea – I volunteer to look after 2-4 year olds and have been given the task to create Mother’s Day crafts with the kids. Love it! Thanks so much!!!
Aw. 2-4…I miss that age. You’ll definitely want to get the floral tape started for them. That’s the trickiest part and could get really frustrating for both of you. If you just give the spoons a good wrap to start, the little ones should be able to finish it out. Their moms are going to love their little spoon flowers.
Nice and easy to make. I am in the children’s department at my church and always looking for easy & cheap crafts to teach the children. This one is quite easy and cheap too. God bless you.
I am so glad that you found a craft that will work for you. Thank you for leaving me such a nice comment. It made my day. God Bless
I did this with my toddler (1year old) class and it was so fun they enjoyed taping the spoons and filling the cup.
That is so wonderful to hear. I always worry about the crafts I publish. I try to make them simple enough, so kids can manage them without frustration. I’m so glad that your 1-year-old was able to wrap the spoons and have fun doing it! That’s great news. Thank you for letting me know. Enjoy your new Spoon Flower. Happy Spring!
My teacher at my childcare center have tried and tried to get the spoons adjusted to look like a flower, but have not had any luck. Any suggestion you could give would be greatly appreciated
Hi Sherrie. Are the 3 spoons facing inward toward each other? It can be a bit tricky to get them to stay put. You’ll have to hold the spoons together at the base of the curved part – just at the top of the handle, while you begin wrapping them with floral tape. I’ll try to make this again, today and make a video. It needs some updated pictures anyway. It takes me a couple of days to edit photos and videos, but I’ll try to get it done ASAP for you as a better visual guide.
Hi again. I just finished the craft, yesterday. I’m sorry that it took me so long. I went in search of spoons last week and found all of the purple spoons sold out from the Dollar Store and another store only carried spoons with curved ends. I finally crafted some new flowers out of spoons and added some tips and tricks to the post. I will tell you that with my assorted spoon types, I found some more difficult than others to put together. The curved ends were nearly impossible. I ended up snipping the ends to make them somewhat straight to make them work. The spoons that had narrow ends were the same. I cheated and used a low temp. glue gun to hold them together. The ones with a flat, wide end were simple as can be. I’ll post a video tomorrow. I hope this helps a little bit.
Helpful hints from making this before class:
Don’t use cellophane grass- it’s too springy- won’t glue down easily & goes EVERYWHERE. Use paper grass/dirt
tightly rubber band the 3 spoon ends together- easy & secure
cut styro foam block & glue into base- then press the spoon ends into the block- now it stands up
wrap the tape from bottom to top- then on the second wrap- include the green pipe cleaners.
HAPPY CRAFTING
Great idea to include a Styrofoam block. Love your tips. Thank you.