This Wooden Spoon Garden Craft is perfect for kids with a green thumb. It looks adorable in potted plants or in the garden, and is very easy for children to make independently. 

With Spring and Summer here it is time to get outside and plant, but what better way to identify all your plants than with this garden craft!

Wooden Spoon Garden Craft 

Kids will love surprising someone they love with a beautiful plant and a handmade wooden spoon garden ornament.

Plain wooden spoons can often be purchased in packs of 5 or 6, making this craft perfect for groups of children at home, or school. 

Or you could save the extra wooden spoons for crafts, your choice.

Supplies Needed To Make A Wooden Garden Spoon:

These wooden garden spoons are so easy to make and don’t require too many supplies. Most of these supplies you’ll probably already have in your crafting box, but some you may need to pick up!

But don’t worry, we can help! (This post contains affiliate links.)

Yarn, markers, felt, foam, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, use whatever you want!

• Wooden spoons
• Googly eyes
• Permanent markers
• Pipe cleaners
• Felt
• Tacky craft glue
• Yarn
• Buttons

How To Make A Wooden Spoon Garden Craft:

This craft is so fun to make outside! It is a good way to get outside, get the creative juices going, and get them excited for their gardens!

Step 1

Spread out a large blanket and the craft supplies, then invite children to apply googly eyes to their spoons. Diverse sizes, shapes, and colors are fun to choose from! 

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Don’t forget the googly eyes!

Now it’s time to get even more creative!

Step 2

Take a minute and visual the spoons. Think about how you want it to look.

Kids will have a blast deciding what their spoon should look like! Green hair? Large pink lips? Striped? The possibilities are endless!

They can have any color yarn hair!

Step 3

Dress them up! Felt clothes, yarn hair, and pipe cleaner arms are easy to attach to the spoons with tacky craft glue. It would be fun to add beads and bells to the yarn hair!

Step 4

Last, add details like lips, eyelashes, or polka dots with the markers. 

These wooden spoons make your garden so much more colorful!

Aren’t they cute? What a fun craft for kids! 

These wooden garden spoons are super easy to make!

Use them as markers to identify your plants or use them to make your garden even more colorful and beautiful! 

These would also make great little gifts for other gardeners in your life.

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