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Fruit Basket Make Over

Give a plain fruit basket - such as those you bring home from the grocery store - a bright new look. Acrylic paints make this patchwork make-over an easy craft project.

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Fruit Basket Make Over
Material:

Basket

Acrylic Paints, in your colours of choice

Gloss Varnish

Sandpaper (fine grit)

Fruit Basket Craft
Instructions

Sand the basket to remove any splinters. Paint the inside and outside basket walls in blue (or your choice of colour). Paint the trim red and allow paint to dry completely.

To add the patch design, just paint squares or odd shapes around the outside of your basket and add black lines to the outside edge of your squares to look like stitch marks.

Allow the paint to dry and finish with a coat of gloss varnish.

These baskets have so many uses, one being collecting zuchinni from the garden. They make great carry-alls for small garden tools, cleaning supplies, tools or whatever you can fit inside of the basket.