Spoon Lamp

Today I wanted to show you one of the decorations I'm doing for the upcoming art show my church is hosting. I've been working with art shows for several years and they are such fun! I can think out of the box for fellow artists and really do something funky if I want to.

I saw a lamp made from plastic spoons last year on Pinterest. I didn't belong to Pinterest at the time so I just copied the picture and didn't worry about where it came from. So, I can't tell you where the original is located. But, it was from overseas and there were no instructions anyway so I just had to figure it out on my own. It's really not very hard. You may want to make one yourself so I'm going to give you a step by step!

You'll need:

A large plastic jug

A LOT of plastic spoons (I bought a pack of 600 at Costco and I used more)

Something to cut the handles off the spoons ( I used garden clippers)

A pendant light kit

Hot glue

Here's the finished product:

So, let's begin. The original used a 2 liter plastic soda bottle. I thought that was too small so I used this instead

These run about $5. My kids were THRILLED when I showed up with two of these! 

First, eat the cheese balls........

Wash out the jug and remove the label....I didn't worry about getting all the sticky residue off but I didn't want the label seen when people were looking up at the lamp.

Use a drill and make a hole in the bottom of the jug just large enough for the wiring. I'm not going to show you how to wire the lamp...there are plenty of tutorials you can find for that.

Cut the handles off the spoons leaving about 3/4 inch....I did about 300 and ended up using more than that to finish. Maybe about 325 for one? 
That's a guess, I didn't count.

Begin gluing the spoons, bowl side down around the opening of the jug which will now be the bottom of your lamp.

You can see that I didn't let the spoons extend down too much below the opening. Just barely over the edge. The sides of the spoons are touching. Try and keep them straight vertically because this is the base layer which will be built upon. The hot glue needs a couple seconds to set up so don't turn the jug too soon or they'll slide and get crooked. If that happens, don't panic, just pull it off and re-glue it.

The next layer overlaps the space between the first layer....like fish scales. 

Here's a couple layers done.

The jug opening is to your left right now. Just continue in this manner up the jug.

I worked with the jug on a stool and a towel under it to keep it from rolling. You need to be above your work so you can keep the spoons fairly straight. I could do about 4 spoons without having to worry about slippage. Then I'd turn the jug and do four more...and so on...

 I hung it up about halfway just to be sure I wasn't getting crooked....looks good!

As you get to the top, the jug curves in a bit and some of the spoons will stick out slightly. You can try cutting the handles off all the way if you really don't like that. I didn't care for this project.

When you get to the very top, you WILL cut the spoon handle all the way off so they can lay nicely around the top.

Now, here it is all lit up.....isn't it neat? or cool? or sick? or whatever the right modern word is?

This would be a fun project for kids or an art teacher to do!

There are LOTS of embellishment possibilities too!

What do you think?

As a parting gift, here's a spoon joke......

Dear Fork,

I know we haven't talked since I ran away with the plate.

I wanted you to know you have a son. He looks just like you. His name is  spork.

Yours truly, Spoon

I don't claim credit for that....if you know where it came from, I read it somewhere.

If you know who created it, let me know and I'll be happy to add the info!




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