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Cake Pan Burner Covers
Designed by Twila Lenoir
Copyright 2004-2009 Allfreecrafts.com
A Trash to Treasure craft project! Recycle cake pans and make yourself a set of artistic stove burner covers!
Are you tired of looking at those ugly burners? Well cover them up with dollar store cake pans (that's where I bought mine). Note: I have an electric stove
You don't have to be artist - just paint like you did in grade school...
Cake Pan Burner Covers
Supplies:
8 inch cake pan for the small burners
9 inch cake pan for the large burner
acrylic paints - white for the base, plus any other colors you need for your design
sealer - I used a brush on gloss.
rubbing alcohol
Burner Covers from Cake Pans
Instructions:
Clean the bottom of the cake pan with rubbing alcohol, you will actually see some metal paint or dust from the pan. Let air dry, and don't touch with your hands. We have lots of oil on our hands.
Now paint on two coats of white paint, making sure you go one way, from one end to the other end, in a brush stroke. Let dry for a couple of hours.
Now paint on any design or scenery you want. If doing a scenery, I started with a darker blue at the top, working lighter blues towards the middle, ending with a dark green at the bottom working the lighter greens towards the light blue. I'm no artist, but I don't think I did too bad - and my kids liked the picture!
Let dry a day, and brush or spray on a sealer.
Caution: Do make sure that your stove burners are turned off and cold before topping with your masterpiece.
To make it a recyclable project, how about using disposable pie tins from prebaked pie crusts? Those would probably look real nice painted, but wouldn't be as strong as the store bought. I think this is definitely a cute idea. I can make the stove cover to go along with my kitchen's theme or as gifts for family members that go along with their theme. I would have to try it with the disposable tins to actually see if it would look nice enough as a gift. Thanks for the idea!
YEAH IT DOES KINDA DEFEAT THE RECYCLE PROJECTS BUT IT STILL IS ONE HECKA AWESOME IDEA. I DEFINATELY WILL BE DOING THIS, CONSIDERING THE PRICES OF THE ACTUAL STOVE COVERS THAT I HAVE PRICED IN MY AREA. NOT SURE ABOUT PAINTING ON THEM, MAYBE LIKE SCRAPBOOKING THEM, STICKERS EMBOSSING POWDERS, HMMMM NOT SURE YET BUT I WILL COME UP WITH SOMETHING I LIKE AND THAT MATCHS MY KITCHEN (APPLES,FRUITS,OLD FARM TYPE ITEMS)
This is supposed to be for recycled crafts. Buying the cake pans at the dollar store defeats the purpose of the craft.
Your point is well taken. If you don't have cake pans, perhaps you could ask family members to donate their old ones, or pick up some at the thrift store!
Get over it people!! Some of us do have these pans and they are old and ready to be thrown out! Plus it's a good craft idea!
