Garden Markers DIY: Easy Wood Spoon Garden Markers

This post first appeared over at The Crazy Craft Lady where I’m a contributor. With some inexpensive spoons and acrylic paint, you can create these colorful wood spoon garden markers DIY that are practical as well as pretty!

WOOD SPOON GARDEN MARKERS DIY

Raise your hand if you are not a fan of DIY plastic markers, copper markers, or even clay plant markers for your garden! 

If your hand is up, then today’s project is for you because I will be showing you how to make your own DIY garden markers using inexpensive supplies and about 30 minutes of your time! 

These cute garden markers that I will be showing you how to make don’t involve polymer clay, metal stamps, or spray paint (which is most common in other garden marker projects). Instead, I will be showing you how to use acrylic paint that you can buy at any craft store, along with some wooden spoons, to create fun markers that will brighten up your garden!

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SUPPLIES NEEDED:

• wooden spoons
• acrylic paint
• washi or painters tape
• foam brushes
• paper plate
• Mod Podge Outdoor
• stickers or vinyl words – Cricut Maker (available at Cricut, Michaels, and HSN) and white vinyl

Wooden Spoon Note: I got mine from Amazon and received 12 in a pack! However, you could buy a smaller pack or buy them individually at the Dollar Store. Also, you can buy any size of wooden spoons that you like, or that will fit in your garden. 

Sticker Note: If you don’t have a Cricut machine, you can use stickers for this project instead. Stickers are great to use in this project because they are easy to find and are inexpensive. However, if you do use stickers, there are two things that you should keep in mind.

One, make sure that the stickers are the correct size for your wooden spoons, and two, make sure that you have enough letters to spell out each of your plants’ names.

Nothing is worse than doing a project and realizing your materials either don’t work or you don’t have enough. Due to that, I highly recommend that you sit down and measure your spoons and make a list of plants (more on that below), so you know what stickers you will need for this project.

BEFORE WE MAKE OUR PLANT MARKERS, LET’S MAKE A LIST

The best part about this fun project is that it can be customized to fit your garden! 

In my case, I decided to use my markers for my fruit and vegetable garden. However, you could use these wooden plant markers in your herb garden or flower garden as well. 

So, with that in mind, I recommned that you sit down before making this easy project, and create a list of the garden plants you want to label. Listing the names of the plants you want to label might sound a bit tedious, but trust me, it will help you to determine two things. Those two things are 1) how many wooden spoons you will need, and 2) all the labels you will need to create with your Cricut Machine.

Plus, if you are not using a Cricut machine but are using alphabet stickers instead, it will help you to determine what size of stickers you will need for your wooden spoons. 

Once you have your list of plant names, then you can move on to create these adorable garden markers DIY!

NOTE ABOUT THE PROJECT CUT FILE

For this project, I did include the Cricut project file for the following words:

• carrots
• tomatoes
• squash
• lettuce
• peas

This means you will not need to create these words for your markers! Cricut has a cartridge called Freshly Picked that has over a dozen different plant names ready to cut – so it took me less than five minutes to create these!

However, if you are using this project to create markers for herbs, flowers, or other vegetables/fruits that are not listed in the Freshly Picked cartridge, you will need to create the words yourself in Cricut Design Space. This can be done by using the same font in the project file, or you could use another font altogether.

Also, you can search Cricut Design Space to see if other cut files have already been created with the words that you need. For example, you may want to look up search terms like ”Garden Markers”, ”Herb Markers”, or ”Flower Markers”. You can also look up terms that are more specific to your needs, like ”Rosemary”, ”Sunflower”, ”Lavender”, etc. Then, once you find a cut file that you like, you can easily resize it for this project.

HOW TO MAKE DIY PLANT MARKERS:

1. Wrap washi or painters’ tape around the base of each spoon.

2. Use a foam brush to paint each spoon. I chose the paint colors to “match” the vegetable/fruit, but you can choose any paint color that you like.

3. Once your spoons are painted, set them aside to dry. A tall cup easily fits six spoons at once! If necessary, paint a second coat on your spoons.

4. As I mentioned before, Cricut has a cartridge called Freshly Picked that has over a dozen different plant names ready to cut. I’ve saved the project for you in Design Space! Download the file and cut out each of your words in white vinyl.

5. Remove the tape from the spoon and add plant names. PS…normally I would use transfer tape for vinyl, but these were small enough that I just peeled them right off and applied them to the spoon.

6. Add a layer of outdoor Mod Podge to each spoon.

These colorful wooden spoon plant markers will help you identify the plants in your garden and get you ready for the riot of color that your fruits and vegetables will bring! 

Also, if you are looking for a great gift to give, these wooden spoon plant markers with some seed packets would make such a fun gift! You could even put them in a cute watering can along with some gardening tools to create the perfect gardener’s gift basket! 

Happy planting!

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Garden Markers DIY: Easy Wood Spoon Garden Markers

With some inexpensive spoons and acrylic paint, you can create colorful wood spoon garden markers DIY for your garden that are practical as well as pretty!

Author: Beth Kingston

Materials

• wooden spoons
• acrylic paint
• washi or painters tape
• foam brushes
• paper plate
• Mod Podge Outdoor
• stickers or vinyl words – Cricut Maker (available at Cricut, Michaels, and HSN) and white vinyl

Instructions

• Wrap washi or painters tape around the base of each spoon.
• Use a foam brush to paint each spoon. I chose the paint colors to “match” the vegetable/fruit, but you can choose any paint color that you like.
• Once your spoons are painted, set them aside to dry. A tall cup easily fits six spoons at once! If necessary, paint a second coat on your spoons.
• As I mentioned before, Cricut has a cartridge called Freshly Picked that has over a dozen different plant names ready to cut. Download the file and cut out each of your words in white vinyl.
• Remove the tape from the spoon and add plant names. PS…normally I would use transfer tape for vinyl, but these were small enough that I just peeled them right off and applied them to the spoon.
• Add a layer of outdoor Mod Podge to each spoon.

Notes

Wooden Spoon Note: I got mine from Amazon and received 12 in a pack! However, you could buy a smart pack or buy them individually at the Dollar Store. Also, you can buy any size of wooden spoons that you like, or that will fit in your garden. 

Sticker Note: If you don’t have a Cricut machine, you can use stickers for this project instead. Stickers are great to use in this project because they are easy to find and are inexpensive. However, if you do use stickers, there are two things that you should keep in mind. One, make sure that the stickers are the correct size for your wooden spoons, and two, make sure you have enough letters to spell out each of your plants. Nothing is worse than doing a project and realizing your materials either don’t work or you don’t have enough. Due to that, I highly recommend that you sit down and measure your spoons and make a list of plants, so you know what stickers you need for this project.

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