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Make your child’s teacher a thoughtful gift craft
These personalised salad servers are the ideal gift for teachers. Pull out your DIY skills and get painting with your child.
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Is your child’s teacher’s birthday coming up? If so, why not help your child make this thoughtful gift craft that’s both useful and sentimental?
What you need
- Two store-bought wooden or bamboo salad servers
- Masking tape
- Acrylic paint
- Paintbrush
- Non-toxic sealant
How to make it
- Lightly sand the handles of a pair of wood or bamboo salad servers, then rinse and dry them.
- Place a ring of masking tape midway down each handle.
- Pour a few colours of acrylic paint onto a disposable plate. Have your child dip a finger into the paint, then make dots on the handles.
- Let the paint dry before adding overlapping dots.
- Remove the tape.
- After the paint is completely dry, coat the handles with a non-toxic sealant.
Top tip: You can also choose to paint the entire spoon, so long as you ensure that only non-toxic sealant is used.