DIY Painted Bowl and Spoon Sets Tutorial
These DIY painted bowl and spoon sets that are fun, colorful, AND quick using gloss enamel craft paint & paint pens. Whether given alone or part of a food basket, these colorful painted bowls and spoons make a unique & fun gift.
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Cost: ~$2 per bowl/spoon set
Equipment
- Paint brush(es) in a width to cover the ends of your spoons with one swipe to minimize brush strokes (no, you do not want to actually dip them in the paint – see below!)
- Oven
Materials
- Small white bowls, 1 cup size
- Stainless steel spoons
- Sharpie Medium Point Oil-Based Paint Pens
- Gloss Enamel Paint in the colors to coordinate with the paint pens. Use these to paint the ends of the spoons to look ‘dipped.’
- Rubbing alcohol & q-tips.
Instructions
Paint the spoons
- Using a brush the width of your spoon end, start about 2/3 up the handle and swipe the enamel paint up to the end of the spoon. Cover the sides, if needed, and then the back.
- Be careful to have enough paint loaded on your brush to cover nicely but not too thick. You can go back and touch up, but be careful not to add too much paint (see warning below…) and try to swipe once or twice to minimize brush strokes.
- Let dry according to package directions. The enamel paint I used (and linked to above) take 4 days to dry before baking, so plan accordingly.
- To bake, I propped the spoons on knives so none of the paint would be touching the baking pan. Bake according to directions: start in cool oven, start timing 30 minutes when the oven reaches 350, and then let cool in oven with door open. You will need ventilation – it’s not terrible, but you will smell it. I turned the down-draft vent on and cracked the window and it was fine.
Paint the Bowls
- Prep your paint pens according to the package – basically you shake and then depress the tip until the paint starts to flow.
- Start making your dots in your desired pattern and don’t worry about perfection. You can see above that some dots are perfectly round and some aren’t – you don’t notice it when they’re not super close like the photo!
- Keep rubbing alcohol and q-tips at hand to easily erase any mistakes (biggest tip ever – you will need this!)
Notes
TIP: You can use just the enamel paint and use a small-tipped brush to paint dots on the bowls. I found the pens much easier, but we did use the brush-enamel technique to apply gold dots to one set of bowls to coordinate with some gold-dipped spoons. I say “we” but it was really my daughter- I was happiest with the paint pens!
TIP: I found that when cooked at 350, a temp I saw mostly in other tutorials, the colors darkened, especially the orange which looked brown, so I recommend using the lower temperature.
