DIY fork fan

Transforming plastic forks into a fan is a fascinating process that will brighten up your leisure time for both adult needlewomen and growing ladies. At the same time, the resulting result will be a worthy decoration for any interior or a very interesting hand-made gift that women will appreciate.

Required materials and tools

To make a luxurious fan, you will need plastic forks (22–24 pieces, depending on the design). This base is complemented by:

• cardboard circle with a diameter of about 12 cm;
• lace and ribbons with a length from 40 (for finishing the inside of the fan) to 70 cm (for decorating the edge);
• Moment glue or glue gun;
• beads and decorative stones - optional.

Well, scissors, a measuring tape and a simple pencil will also come in handy. When everything listed is on your table, it’s time to create.

Step-by-step instruction

To make a fan, you first need to cut a cardboard circle into two halves. Then disposable forks are glued to one of them, at a distance of about 2 cm from the edge. After the glue has set, the second half of the cardboard circle is glued onto the resulting base - this way we will get a finished base, which will only need to be decorated.

Having selected a suitable ribbon or lace, you should thread it through the tines of each fork.In this case, the following order is recommended: 1 prong is hidden with tape, 2 central ones remain open, the next pair (touching side horns of adjacent disposable forks) is hidden under the decor. In this way, all the teeth are woven, and if everything is done correctly, the last of them will again be hidden by the decor. After this, all that remains is to secure the edges of the tape with glue.

The next stage is weaving the fork handles with ribbons. There are several techniques for performing this task, but the simplest of them is to thread the ribbon through the existing gaps and then fix it with glue.

When the fan is almost finished, all that remains is to decorate the cardboard base and, if desired, stick beads or decorative stones onto the bases of the forks. This is the final stage, after which you can decorate your apartment with the resulting product. Well, or give it to someone.

For those who find the description confusing and incomprehensible, I recommend watching the following video: a detailed master class on creating a fan from disposable plastic forks.