Stencil Sensation!

 

A freshly sharpened pencil...a new box of colored pencils

some paper...

add a stencil or two and...

Let the fun creations begin!

 

Your kitchen houses all types of stencils that can be used or created in minutes.

 

Try these common items as stencils.

 

• Plastic lids from food containers (cottage cheese, yogurt, butter/margarine) with a design cut out of the middle.  Use cookie cutters to help create a design on the lid and and use a sharp utility knife on a cutting board to cut out the shape.The shape you cut out becomes a stencil as well as the lid itself.  (shown in the photo above)

• The inside ring of the roll of masking or scotch tape (pictured in the center of the large circle stencil in the photo above).
 
• A pasta measurer (Shown in the upper middle of above picture.  It has four holes.)
 
• The lids off of any container or bottle
 
• A plastic cup or plate
 
• Plastic storage containers and lids 

• A food box that has a "window". Cut out the side of the box with the opening and then remove the cellophane covering the opening. This results in an instant stencil.
 

 
• Cookie Cutters make great stencils too!
 
          

         

 Let your imagination go wild and see what happens!