Kids
Wooden Spoon Crafts
Wooden spoons are highly versatile for crafts that your children can make very easily. There are many possibilities and here's some ideas to get you started:-
- Puppets - you can make all sorts of puppets with spare pieces of felt.
- Musical instruments - they can be banged together as simple musical instruments.
- Provide them with some wooden spoons, non-toxic paint, pipe cleaners, pieces of felt/material and some felt tip pens and see what they come up with!
Make a Mouse Using a Wooden Spoon
Here's a mouse that you can make very easily using a wooden spoon. This is a fun exercise for your kids to do and it's easy to make, requiring few items.
Here's what you will need and how to make it.
What you will need
- One wooden spoon.
- Non-toxic glue or cellotape.
- Grey paint.
- Black felt pen for the whiskers.
- Small sized plastic eyes.
- Pink paper for ears.
- Grey or white pipe cleaner (chenile stick) for tail.
How to make it
- Paint the front and rear of the spoon with the grey paint and leave to dry. If necessary, depending on the thickness of the paint, apply a second coat.
- Cut the pink paper to make the two ears.
- Stick the ears to the back of the spoon using the cellotape or glue.
- Draw in the face, stick on the eyes and add the whiskers, using the black felt pen.
- Stick the pipe cleaner on the base of the spoon with glue or cellotape.