Recycling Your Spray Foam Leftovers

Friday, April 15, 2022

Recycling Your Spray Foam Leftovers

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:

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

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

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

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)

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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