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Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter

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These sweet Plastic Spoon Chicks are full of color and make a great addition to your holiday table. Make these adorable chicks to grace your table this year!

When we think about cute crafts for Easter, bunnies, and chicks spring to mind. These plastic spoon chicks are full of color and can and should be personalized!

Easter placeholders, plastic spoon chicks

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter

Easter is a holiday where people get together to celebrate family, religious beliefs, and togetherness. The holiday almost always is celebrated with a feast with many people around the table. So I’ve put together these cute easter placeholders that the kids will love and the adults will smile over.

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter

I originally made these plastic spoon chicks for Craft Stores via DecoArt. They asked me to create a fun Easter project using Craftsmart paint. I actually am a big fan of Craftsmart paint and highly recommend it for kid’s crafts. It’s also great for adult projects too. It goes on nicely and there are quite a few colors to choose from.

To make this Easter chick craft, you can print off the full instructions below. If you like chick crafts, these jellybean chicks are also great as placeholders!

Colorful plastic spoon chick placeholders

What You’ll Need To Make Plastic Spoon Chicks

Craftsmart paint:
You can find Craftsmart paint specifically through Michael’s or you can find similar colors online that I will link below!


Making the Plastic Spoon Chicks:

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter step 1 and 2

Gently sand the shine off the spoons, dust them off and paint them.

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter step 3 and 4

I used a block of floral foam to hold them while they dried.

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter step 5 and 6

Add white polka dots up the handles.

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter step 7 and 8

Paint terra cotta pots white and paint the rims with the colored paint. Add matching polka dots.

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter step 9 and 10

Cut floral foam into small squares and glue them inside the pots. Add the beaks and the eyes.

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter step 11 and 12

Cut pieces of card stock for the name tags. Write names on and add the “hands” using your finger dipped in paint.

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter step 13

Insert the spoon chicks into the floral foam. Tie ribbon into bows and glue to the neck.

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter

Fill with tissue paper and glue on the name tags!

Plastic spoon chicks collage

More fun Easter crafts

These sweet Plastic Spoon Chicks are full of color and make a great addition to your holiday table. Make these adorable chicks to grace your table this year!
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5 from 20 votes

Plastic Spoon Chicks for Easter

Author: Amanda Formaro

Supplies

  • 5 plastic spoons
  • 5 terracotta pots
  • Fine grit sandpaper
  • Pencil with new eraser
  • Floral foam
  • Cardstock
  • White ribbon
  • White tissue paper
  • Hot glue gun
  • White craft glue

Craftsmart paint:

  • Butter Cream
  • Pink
  • Grape Taffy
  • Pool Blue
  • Spearmint
  • Orange
  • Black
  • White

Instructions

  • Lightly sand the front and back surfaces of the plastic spoons.
  • Paint the front and back of each spoon with Butter Cream, Pink, Grape Taffy, Pool Blue, and Spearmint. When dry apply a second coat.
  • Use the handle end of the paintbrush to add polka dots with White paint to the handles of the spoons.
  • Paint the terra cotta pots white. When dry apply a second coat.
  • Paint the rim of each pot with Butter Cream, Pink, Grape Taffy, Pool Blue, and Spearmint.
  • Use the eraser end of a pencil to add polka dots to each pot to correspond with the color of the rim.
  • Paint beaks onto spoons with Orange.
  • Use the handle end of a paintbrush to add Black dots for eyes.
  • Cut floral foam into 1-inch cubes and use white craft glue to attach to the inside the bottom of each terra cotta pot.
  • Cut cardstock into strips about 3” x ¾” and write the names of each guest. To add the “hands” dip your finger into the paint and gently press to the left and right sides of each name card using the corresponding color for each spoon and pot.
  • Tie ribbon into bows and hot glue the bows to the “necks” of the spoons. Insert the end of each spoon into the floral foam.
  • Tuck tissue paper into the pots to cover the floral foam and the base of each spoon.
  • Hot glue the name tags to the spoons under the bows.

 

This post was originally published on this blog on March 8, 2013.
 

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  1. Jennifer says

    Oh my goodness. I am an up and coming crafts fanatic lol. I absolutely LOVE crafts & I am always looking for new ideas to do for me and the kiddos. Very happy to have stumbled across your page! I will definitely have to do this next Easter! Love love love !! Ty so much.

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  2. cas says

    Amanda, these are the cutest EVER! I love Easter! I love the idea of family and friends gathering without all the gift giving etc. It is more a time of loving, sharing and making memories! ‘A reminder of “Things Beautiful”. Fresh grass and leaves, flowers, little birds and bunnies, and a time to begin anew! The Spoon Chick Placeholders are awesome and the colors are so Spring! They would make a wonderful gift for everyone to take home at the end of the day. Thank you for all the joy you share!

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  3. Diane says

    Oh my gosh, this is so cute!!! And the colors are perfect, it is as if my day is complete looking at them. Will definitely try this one out. Thank you for the idea!

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  4. Terry says

    Cover the Foam with plastic wrap and then add jelly beans, chocolate eggs, or mints around the spoon for a sweet treat.

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  5. Lydianne says

    This is one of the cutest ideas for Easter decor I have ever seen. I don’t do many, if any, of the projects I see but I will most definitely give this one a try! I also hardly ever if at all comment on ideas or post but this one is just so darn cute. Thanks Amanda for all your great ideas.

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  9. Sarah says

    These are adorable! I also love your wall behind the placeholders with the plate collage. Do you know the color of the wall? :). Thanks!

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  13. wallenachaney says

    Why couldn’t you use small styrofoam cups put enough flower foam in the bottom to hold the spoon put in s amall amout of grass and top them off with easter candies for a treat to have after dinner?

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  27. Alessandra says

    Gostaria muito de algumas ideias em flores e arranjos de e.v.a,vc tem alguma coisa ou ideia pra me ajudar??? Obrigada

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  28. JILL S. says

    I love this project! The colors are so pretty and you could use other colors for different holidays, and make Santas or Leprechauns!!
    Thanks so much for the idea!!

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