Thanksgiving Table Serving Utensils – Great Hostess Gift!
Another fun project to share with you today! I created these DIY Thanksgiving Table Serving Utensils with my Cricut Explore™. They turned out wonderful and I think they’re a great way to bring something special to your holiday table. I’m sure your guests will be impressed! This would also be a wonderful gift for your Thanksgiving host.
I purchased this set of 6 bamboo serving utensils from Bed, Bath, and Beyond for $5.99. Our new puppy decided she would teeth on one of the spoons, so I only ended up with five finished serving utensils (smh).
I sanded the utensils handles a bit to remove some of the finish. My original idea was to stain the handles with wood stain, however I decided to go the sharpie method since it would be quick and cleaner!
I’m getting better at learning the Cricut Design Space™ and created this set of Thanksgiving word stencils that fit perfectly on the bamboo utensils. I felt these words represented what Thanksgiving means to me.
I carefully removed the rectangular stencils from the sheet and applied them to the handles.
This was a learning curve…when I used the sharpie alone on the first handle it bled pretty badly and I wasn’t happy with how it looked. So I flipped the utensil over and had the idea to use a ballpoint pen to create a sort of edge for the letters. I like how it also made a sort of border for the lettering. Then I filled in the words with a Sharpie and quickly wiped each letter with a paper towel to remove excess ink so it wouldn’t bleed.
There you have it! These will look lovely on your Thanksgiving table or as a kind hostess gift this fall. I’m so happy with this DIY project as part of my Cricut Design Space™ Star competition and would love if you support me by clicking over to see my project. Thank you! If you’re interested, my previous Design Space Star projects have been: Travel Delicates Bag and Halloween Flashlight Projections.
The theme for our team this month was “A Natural Holiday” and I think these bamboo utensils are a great match for that theme. Take a peek at all the other great projects my team has created!
What a great idea to use the ballpoint pens for the outlines – it ended up being a great look!
Thanks Melissa! I was surprised that it actually added a nice touch in addition to being helpful. :)
Love your project. I’m visiting from #FF/Instagram and wanted to leave a note. Sharing this on my FB page this weekend too:) Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks so much Wendi – I appreciate the facebook love as well! Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Very nice! A personal note like this will look great anywhere.. and your utensils look great and ready for the holidays :)
Thanks so much Vidya! I loved how they turned out!
I LOVE this idea. I’ve been looking for a way to do this. Would you mind sharing what font and size you used in cricut design space?
Looks like my font got “lost”! Not sure how that happened. I played around with it and it looks like I used Brush Script MT and the height of the font is about .53 inch. I don’t know the exact settings since the file was edited/corrupted. Sorry about that. I really appreciate you reaching out so I can put it on my list to recreate the file. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving Kelly!
Ok Kelly, just got off the phone with Cricut and it turns out the font I used was only on my computer! Oops! So, I had used Brush Script, but if you’d like to use a Cricut system font it looks like perhaps ‘Billionaire’ would work nicely.