Friday, April 22, 2022

Faux Food Decor From Dollar Tree Pet Toys

Food Decor

You might remember my recent post where I turned Dollar Tree checker toys into fake cookies?  Well the fun continues again today, this time using....pet toys!

What?!  Yep, check it out:


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Food Decor

Here is what I started with; pizza, doughnuts and ice cream sandwiches all from Dollar Tree's pet supply section.

(You can click here to browse Dollar Tree's online selection)



Food Decor
Food Decor

I thought that the ice cream sandwiches were pretty cute as they were.  I used a bit of lightweight spackle in an icing bag to cover up the text and that was that!



Food Decor

The pizza slices I used to create a slice of layer cake.  Again using that lightweight spackle, I applied it to the top of each slice and then added another piece of pizza, using three slices total for this piece of cake.



Food Decor
Food Decor

Once stacked, I piped on more spackle to cove the top and back of the pizza slices, then topped clay sprinkles.

These clay sprinkles I made myself using this extruder and this polymer clay, both on Amazon.
After loading the extruder with clay, squeeze out long lines of clay strings.  Bake until dry and then cut apart into sprinkles.

Here is a great tutorial from Alison at Dream A Little Bigger.  She even does hers by hand so if you don't have an extruder, no worries!



Food Decor

I began my doughnut tower in the same way as the pizza slices, layering with more spackle.  While with the pizza slices I covered up all the 'pizza', I made sure to leave a bit of the chocolate and sprinkle detailing showing at the sides.



Food Decor
Food Decor

For the top doughnut I cut a foam craft sphere in half and glued it on top.  This covered up the hole and gave me a nice surface to apply my dollop of icing.



Food Decor

A cherry on top and then they were complete!



Food Decor

And there you have it, easy and inexpensive fake bake décor from dollar store pet toys!


















6 comments:

  1. Such an interesting use of dog toys.

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  2. So cute! I've seen fake food items going to top dollar. Thanks for showing us that we can do it frugally!
    Thanks for sharing at the Making a Home - Homemaking Linky at Linda's Lunacy!

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  3. This has to be the most clever thing I’ve ever seen!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

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