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Uncle Sam wooden spoon craft laid out on wood background with buttons, glue gun, and craft supplies.

Wooden Spoon Uncle Sam Craft

Michelle Ordever
Make this adorable Uncle Sam from a wooden spoon, craft stick, paint, and foam—an easy patriotic project for kids to create on a budget.
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Active Time 30 minutes
Project Craft
Holiday Fourth of July
Makes 1
Difficulty Easy

Materials

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Instructions
 

  • Place the thin craft stick two inches (5cm) down from the top of the spatula, and draw a line with a pencil.
    Wooden spoon with craft stick and ruler showing how to measure and mark the pencil line for Uncle Sam's hat.
  • Download and print the free template and use it as a guide. Paint the top third of the wooden spoon with white acrylic craft paint. Let dry and apply a second coat, if necessary.
  • Using a small flat paintbrush, add vertical stripes with red acrylic craft paint on top of the white layer. Let dry and apply a second coat, if necessary.
    Wooden spoon with white base and red vertical stripes painted on top section to create Uncle Sam’s hat.
  • Basecoat the regular craft stick with blue acrylic craft paint. Let dry and apply a second coat, if necessary.
    Wooden spoon with red and white hat stripes and blue painted craft stick glued on as the hat brim.
  • Attach the blue craft stick to the painted edge of the wooden spoon spatula with a glue gun and glue sticks. This becomes the hat brim. Trim ½” from each end of the craft stick with scissors.
  • Paint the handle of the wooden spoon spatula with blue acrylic craft paint. Let dry and apply a second coat, if necessary.
    Wooden spoon craft with handle painted blue to complete Uncle Sam’s body.
  • Attach two googly eyes to Uncle Sam’s face with a glue gun and glue sticks. Create cheeks by dipping a new pencil eraser in pink acrylic craft paint and dotting on the right and left side under the eyes.
    Uncle Sam wooden spoon with wiggle eyes glued on and pink cheeks dotted below using a pencil eraser.
  • Attach three red buttons to the handle of the wooden spoon spatula with a glue gun and glue sticks.
  • Trace the beard and mustache from the free template onto white craft foam with a pencil, and then cut out with scissors. Attach the beard and then the mustache with a glue gun and glue sticks. Trim the rounded end from a regular craft stick with scissors and glue just under the googly eyes as Uncle Sam’s nose.
    Wooden spoon craft showing beard and mustache glued on with red buttons attached down the blue handle.
  • Trace the star from the free template onto the back of the silver glitter cardstock with a pencil, and then cut out with scissors. Attach to the hat with a glue gun and glue sticks. To finish, embellish the star with a self-adhesive clear rhinestone.
    Finished Uncle Sam wooden spoon craft with red and white striped hat, blue brim, silver glitter star with rhinestone, and glue gun in the background.

Handy Tips & More Ideas

  • Hot Glue Alternatives: If you don’t have a glue gun, you can use liquid craft glue, but you will have to wait longer for it to dry.
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