Dip-Dyed Wooden Spoons

A set of ordinary wooden spoons is not an expensive investment. You can purchase two or three spoons in a set, at a dollar-theme store, for a buck. And, to go along with the wooden spoons, you can find a wooden salad set, complete with wooden spoon and wooden fork. The wood items for your kitchen arent costly but they arent all that attractive, either. But if youre interested in the designer version of the implements prepare to pay several times what the plain spoons would cost. Save your money, invest in a bit of paint, and create your own designer wooden spoons. You can make them match your kitchen, create a set for a friend - featuring his or her favorite hue, or otherwise give ordinary wooden spoons a punch of color.

Buy one or more colors of paint and itll be really easy to add the colorful accents to the wooden spoon set. Its fun to watch the plain, brown or tan spoons be transformed into spoons that look as though they came from a high-end store. The best paint is indoor house paint in a glossy finish. Although a gallon of paint offers enough depth for dipping a wooden spoon, you can use a smaller amount, pour it into a vase, and use it for dipping. Just make sure that, whatever container you use, its tall enough so that you can dip the entire handle - or a portion of the handle.

A potato chip clip, or similar clip, works great to hold the wooden spoon as it dries. Clamp the chosen clip onto a string or cord and hang it over newspaper. Dip the spoon handle in the paint, allow the excess to drip back into the can, and then clamp the bowl end of the spoon onto the chip clip. Allow it to drip-dry overnight. It might be necessary to dip the spoon once again to get the shade and coverage that you want. Many wooden utensils have holes where you can hang them and, as you dip the spoons in paint, it could clog up the holes. Just wait until the paint has dried and push in a toothpick, ice pick, or similar implement, to open the hole on each spoon. Youll quickly turn a ten dollar wooden spoon set into a hundred dollar designer deal when you dip-dye them with paint. Its so easy to have vivid colors, like blue, green, yellow, red, white, or orange, to match the colors in your kitchen. Even though many people store their wooden spoons in a container where they go in handles-first, youll want to store your so that the handles show. Theyre so colorful and pretty that youll want any kitchen visitor to see them.