Cookie Sheet Tray

We all have one of these sad-looking aluminum trays lurking in the bottom of the oven drawer. It’s dented, scorched, and ratty but still usable right? Nothing that a sheet of tin foil can’t remedy when you need an extra tray in a pinch.

 

 

Well old dingy cookie sheet…it’s your lucky day! A simple application of a bit of fabric and this dreary metal pan got up-cycled into a pretty little tray which has now found a new home on my bathroom counter.

Okay, here’s the secret recipe for my home-made Mod Podge…got a pen? Empty one bottle of Elmer’s glue into a container twice its size. Fill the Elmer’s glue bottle with water…shake to dissolve left over contents. Add to big container with other glue, now shake that. Done.

Phew, now that we got that complicated recipe out of the way…let’s get on with it. Scrub your old cookie sheet tray as good as you can to loosen any stubborn scorched bits. Choose a happy fabric….one that makes you smile, brightens your day…or simply matches your towels, whatever.

 

 

Cut it a good two inches or so bigger then the tray, you will need the extra material to push into the lip of the cookie sheet and around the edge. You will be using a lot of the glue solution to do this so don’t be chintzy, slather that goop on using a foam brush. I used a foam roller and a plastic mud knife to push the fabric into the corners and up to the edge.

Working in sections, apply a good amount of goop to the tray, smooth that area of the fabric over it using your tools and add more glue to the top. The fabric will be saturated but this is the only way to get a good adhesion between the fabric and the metal tray.

Clothes pins…there is only about a thousand and one uses for these cheap dollar store items! Here they are performing the task of keeping the fabric in place at the corners while it dries. I waited 24 hours before removing them. Then I flipped the tray and applied a generous layer of glue to the bottom of the rim and attached the fabric to that. After it was dry I gave it a trim.

 

 

I made these flowers in a snap using felt sheets. All I did was draw a line that looked like a series of mmm’s about three inches long for the small ones, four to five for the bigger ones. These become the petals after you cut out the strip and do a quick gathering straight stitch (by hand) joining the two ends together. If this isn’t clear enough, let me know and I’ll post a picture to explain it better. Add buttons and a couple of leaf cutouts and you have a nice addition to your tray.

 Check out my Jewelry Tree Stand made with a terra cotta pot and my Mason Apothecary Jar.

Go ahead and dig out those old cookie trays, it’s time to make them useful again.

 

 

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