Make fun fork and knife chalkboards!

and forks Remember those oversize knives Here’s that hung in your grandma’s kitchen? an updated version that adds sleeker, as tongue-in-cheek style—and doubles a memo board! Here’s the how-to:

What you’ll need:

❏ 2 pieces of foam board (like Elmer’s 18"x24" com) Foam Board, $10 for 2 sheets, Staples. ®

❏ Red chalkboard paint (like Martha Stewart $2, Chalkboard Paint in Habanero Red, Consumercrafts.com)

❏ White chalk

❏ Optional: Floral stencil (like Delta Stencil com) and Mania Garden 3-Pack, $4.29, Plaidonline. floral accents white acrylic craft paint to make permanent

❏ 2 pieces (8" each) narrow ribbon

❏ Craft glue Make cute cutouts!

✔ Enlarge our photo on a copy machine at the desired size. (To make a large to make fork and knife patterns done in sections and taped knife and fork, it will have to be onto foam board and cut them together.) Cut patterns out, trace them

✔ Create chalkboards! Paint 1-2 coats of chalkboard paint Let dry completely. Optional: Use onto the knife and fork shapes. add pretty permanent floral details white craft paint and stencil to that cannot be erased.

✔ Hang ’em up! loop Form narrow ribbon into a hanging fork and the knife (at the top). and glue one on the back of the sayings onto the chalkboard Scroll reminders or inspirational flatware with white chalk!