Friday, April 15, 2022

Recycling Your Spray Foam Leftovers

 Fake Bake Crafting


Whenever I'm working on a project I try to find the best priced materials as possible and recycle as much as I can.  In this post I'm showing you how I reused leftover pieces of spray foam to create more crafty projects-

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So where are these pieces of leftover spray foam coming from?  If I do up a set of faux cupcakes I want to leave the domed tops in place to create the cupcake shape.  Other times I use spray foam to fill the interior of my crafting space and don't want the puffy top.  An example of this is when I made my faux potted plants.  After filling my pots with foam, I trimmed off the excess to create a flat top.  The cut off pieces were in such a nice shape and condition that I figured I should save them to reuse.  Read on to see how:



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A couple of tops painted and glued into ice cream bowls to create a lemon treat.



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When making this patriotic trifle bowl, a flipped over piece of spray foam filled the interior and gave me a stable surface.



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Fake Bake Crafting

Similar to the trifle bowl, another upside down foam scrap helped to fill the depression of this Jello mold.





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Fake Bake Crafting
Fake Bake Crafting

I also did up a few faux sandwiches.  After painting several smaller pieces of foam that were similar in size, I glued toy lettuce, tomato and lunch meat pieces inside.  A bit of toothpick on the tops finished them off.

(Tiered tray makeover here)



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And of course those ice cream towers!  For these I selected three different sizes of spray foam tops, painted them in ice cream colors and then stacked them using light weight spackle.  Don't forget the cherry on top 😍

And there you have it, an easy and creative way to put those foam leftovers to good use!

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4 comments:

  1. Thanks so much for this post Jennifer! I have not done too much with faux food yet but you've inspired me. There are so many fun ideas here! Thanks again and have a wonderful week!

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  2. So creative and cute. Thanks for linking up at the Making a Home - Homemaking Link Up!

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