Wooden Spoon Friends – Todd Oldham’s craft ideas for homemade gifts

These fun-to-paint wooden spoon friends were inspired by Alexander Girard’s beautiful wooden dolls that he handmade for his family in 1963.

• Unfinished wooden spoons
• Shoe box
• Acrylic paints
• Brushes
• Painter’s tape
• Paper plates
• Pencil
• Utility knife
• Ruler

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  Trace a wooden spoon on scrap paper. Add stripes and facial expressions to your drawing. Use this as your template.
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  Working from the top down, mask off your stripes with painter’s tape and paint. Let dry and remove tape.
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  Complete your spoon dolls by painting a face on each and maybe add a bow tie too.
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  Make a display for your dolls out of a shoe box painted in your favorite colors.
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  Ask an adult to cut Xs with a sharp knife where you want your dolls to stand.
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  After playing with a spoon friend push its handles through the X.

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