Halloween Plastic Spoon Flowers Tutorial

Wanna try something really cool? 

How about some flowers made out plastic silverware??

These look beautiful intertwined in your Halloween decorations.....

These guys are easy to make but not very good for the environment (though, it is recycling) so try not to make them too much..... and make sure you do it outside. This is definitely a craft for adults only!

Also, if you're wondering about the witches brew bottles in the background, I'm going to posting about them this weekend!!

Here is what you need:

Plastic silverware

Lighter

Pretty simple, right?

~Take all your tools OUTSIDE and get started!!

~Take your silverware and starting with the forks or spoons, break off the bowl area where the natural bend in the stem is. Do this to as many pieces as you plan to have in one flower. 

~Heat up a stem with a lighter until the plastic begins to melt, then push it up against another stem:

~The two should melt together. Do this for as many as you would like to make the flower. I added a fork to the middle of my flower to give it a spookier appearance. After you melt the plastic, it retains heat for a bit, but it cools enough to be unable to melt pretty quickly, so move fast to bring pieces together. 

~You could make a whole flower out of forks, out of spoon, out of forks and spoons..... it is up to you. The trick is, once all the piece have been connected, take the lighter and move it slower around each piece of the flower, making the edges curl and look more like a real flower. The tines will curl in different directions! It's a lot of fun. 

Just remember, the fumes are terrible for you..... do it OUTSIDE and don't do it too often for the sake of our atmosphere. :-) 

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