Pineapple Lamp

Take the lamp shade off your lamp and keep it unplugged until you have completely finished. Using an X-acto knife, cut off the base of your bottle and the spout so it is open on both sides. My bottle was a little long and so it needed some shortening. I cut a chunk out of the middle and then glue-gunned the two sides back together.

Using tough scissors or by carefully snapping them, remove the spoons from their handles. Now paint your spoons. Surprisingly, you can just paint them using acrylic paint, but they do need two coats to make them look more opaque.

Start applying your spoons to the base of your bottle using minimal glue.

When you have finished, start applying your second layer putting the spoons in the gaps between the first layers.

Keep on going until you get to the very top layer. This will use fewer spoon and so there will be bigger gaps between them. I did a second layer on top of this to fill in the gaps.

Now cut a spiny star shape out of your green cardstock. Cut a hole out of the center so the paper will not overheat from the heat of the lamp.

Carefully bend the spines over to shape them a little. Using a glue gun, attach the green star over the rough top of the spoons.

To make your spines, cut out spear shapes, apply glue to the base and apply to the inside of the plastic bottle. Again shape the leaves to make them bend over slightly.

When all of your spines have been placed, cut them slightly to different sizes and finally shape to make them look perfectly pineappley!