Colorful Kitchen Utensils

When I saw these festive spoons on the crafty blog, Little Bit Funky, I knew I had to paint some of my own.

Spoons with a touch of sunshine from Little Bit Funky.

What a fun way to add some spunk to our kitchen counters, huh?

Knowing that I wanted to do this craft when I got home from vacation, I bought a package of 5 bamboo spoons at a quaint winery on the road to Haleakala in Maui, thinking the exotic location of my purchase would add to the originality of my craft. When I got home, I went to Bed, Bath & Beyond to see if could find some dark wood spoons to add into the mix, and guess what I found? The same exact package of bamboo spoons! Thanks a lot, globalization. 

Yea, but mine were only subject to a 4.16% sales tax, so take THAT, California.

Anywho, I digress. The hardest part of this craft was picking colors. I had only 5 wooden utensils to paint, but I spent a good 20 minutes on the acrylic paint aisle in Michael's picking and pairing colors from Martha Stewart's multi-surface paint collection.

Ultimately, I chose bright, candy colors for my spoons. Here's how I did them:

What You Need

• Collection of wooden spoons
• Non-toxic acrylic paint (Don't add chemicals to your kitchen!)
• Masking tape
• Fine sandpaper 
• Paint brushes
• Pencil
• Tape measure/ruler

Painting Your Spoons, Step-by-Step

Step 1. Use tape measure and pencil to mark off a uniform length on the spoon handles. I marked mine at 3.5 inches. Then wrap masking/painter's tape around the handle at the pencil mark to separate the painted area from the rest of the spoon. 

Step 2. Use the sandpaper to buff the area to be painted. This will help the paint stick.

Step 3.  Apply your first coat of paint to your spoons.

Step 4. Place the painted spoons in jars to dry. Wait an hour. 

Step 5. After the first coat of paint has dried. apply another. Let that coat dry.

Step 6. When the second coat of paint is dry, slowly peel off the masking tape.

Step 7.  Place your spoons in a glass jar for festive storing and then get cooking!

I now only refer to my kitchen utensils by their color. You cook pasta in the silver, stir with the pink, drain into the white and eat off of the green.

Stirring my favorite broccolini and tortellini salad.

If the rainbow colors are too much for you, check out Anthropologie's take on these festive wood utensils. For the ferociously festive out there, these spoons could be done up with multiple colors on each handle, a few polka dots or any other pattern of your liking. The world of wooden spoons is your oyster! Now go on and get painting!