How to Make Plastic Spoon Bugs
This recycled plastic spoon bug craft is so fun and easy to make! Simply paint plastic spoons and glue them together to make these cute little bugs.
Yield: 1 plastic spoon bug
Cost: $1
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Materials
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Cut and paint the spoons
- Cut the handles off of 3 plastic spoons. Recycle the handles and keep the rounded spoon parts.(Read below the tutorial if you need help cutting the spoons.)
- Paint the back of one of your spoons with black paint. This will be the body of the ladybug.
- Paint the other 2 spoons red. Allow to dry.
- Use a small paintbrush (or the end of a paintbrush handle) to add small black dots to the red spoons. These will be the ladybug's wings.Allow to dry.
Step 3: Connect the ladybug pieces
- Add a generous amount of hot glue to the cut end of the black spoon on one side.
- Place one of the wings into the glue, angling it out away from the body a bit.Make sure your spoons are all facing the same direction (the cut ends on the same side).
- Add more glue, partially on top of the first wing. Set the second wing in place so that it slightly overlaps the first and goes out at the opposite angle.
Step 4: Attach the ladybug's face
- Cut a small black pom pom in half.
- Add a generous amount of hot glue to the flat side of the pom pom.
- Place the glued pom pom at the front of the ladybug, on top of the wings, covering where the handles were cut off.
- Add hot glue to the googly eyes and press them onto the front of the pom pom head.
- Your plastic spoon bug is complete!
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