Summer Fruit Trays DIY

Need some fun summer trays for your outdoor dining?  These couldn't be easier to make!  Standard 18" table rounds and thin metal spoons for handles and you're halfway there.  I dyed the wood with RIT Liquid Dye which works wonderfully as a wood stain.  Make sure to check out the RIT studio for tons of other ways to use RIT!  

Watch how I made them here!

YOU'LL NEED

Two 1" x 18" table rounds

Thin metal spoons *make sure you can bend them

Rit Liquid Dye in Sunshine Orange and Scarlet

Americana Multi Surface Paints 

Drill

1" screws 

Paintbrushes

Pencil

Stain one table round with the RIT liquid dye in Sunshine Orange to create the orange tray

Draw a line 1 1/2" from the edge of the tray

Fill in the line with Cotton Ball Multi Surface Paint to create the rhine

With a ruler, draw your orange sections

 Paint over the lines 

Fill in the center and paint on the seeds

Paint the edge with Orange Sherbert

Let dry for an hour

Paint the second table round with Scarlet to create the watermelon tray

Draw a line 1" from the edge and fill in with Cotton Ball

Paint the edges with Turf Green

Add some Cotton Ball to the Turf Green for a lighter shade to create the stripes on the edge 

Coat both trays with Minwax Polycrylic

Mark each end of the spoon

Drill holes in each end of the spoons

Bend into a handle shape and screw into the sides of the trays