Thrift Store Pepper Grinder Queen Bee

Next time you’re thrifting, keep your eye out for a set of wooden salt and pepper shakers so you can make this fun Pepper Grinder Queen Bee DIY to add to your bee themed home decor. This thrift store flip is as cute as can BEE so let’s create some BUZZ around it!

Bee themed decor is one of my FAVES! Probably because it goes so well with my OSD (Obsessive Sunflower Disorder).

Honeybees, Bumblebees, Queen Bees, gimme allllll the BEEES!

I made THE cutest Dollar Tree Foam Dice Bumblebee for my Sunflower and Bee tiered tray and thats where the obsession started, and spun out of control from there.

So here we are, turning a Thrift Store Pepper Grinder into a cute as can BEE Queen BEE!

So next time you are out thrifting, keep your eye out for a set of these wooden salt shakers and pepper grinders, because you never know what I might make with them next!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Queen Bee from a Thrift Store Wood Pepper Grinder

How to Make a Thrift Store Pepper Grinder Bee

I made this Thrifted Pepper Grinder Bee on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Amanda holding the completed project on a Facebook live thumbnail.

Watch the video HERE

Start by painting the entire wood pepper grinder with 2 coats of yellow paint.

Then, paint the entire “head” black and then black stripes on the entire “body”. I intentionally did not reload my brush with paint often since I wanted my bee to have that distressed vibe. Also, this helped so that I didn’t have to worry about my lines being perfectly straight. After painting you can use a sanding block to distress it even more if you like.

After it’s all painted, grunge the body up with some Antique wax (if you want to).

The body of the bee is painted yellow with distressed black stripes.

To make the wings, shape wired jute into an oblong heart type shape, and then twist the ends together to close them and hold them together.

Hot glue them to the upper back of the Queen Bees body.

The wings made fro wired jute glued to the back of the pepper grinder bee body.

Make a small hangtag by ripping a piece of kraft paper and stamping “Bee Happy” onto it with small acrylic stamps. I also grunged the tag up with some wax.

Tie it onto the top of the wing with some twine and a shoestring bow, and add a couple of small sunflower embellishments.

The wing made from wired jute with a small tag that says "Bee Happy" with small sunflower embellishments and a shoestring twine bow.

Same concept for the antenna’s….just shape the wired jute into the antenna shape and glue a small black pom pom to the end of each. Then glue them the top of the Pepper Grinder Bee “head”.

Take a mini laser cut crown and rub some Antique Gold Rub n’ Buff on it, and glue it to the Bees head in front of the antenna’s.

The head of the bee with a mini gold crown and wired jute antenna's with black pom poms.

Of course we had to add a bow! I made a bow with my Bowdabra using strips of coordinating yellow and black and white fabric. You definitely don’t NEED a Bowdabra to make a cute bow, but I do love mine and use it every day!

Glue the bow to the pepper grinder just under the wings, and off to the left slightly. Glue a silk sunflower head to the center for extra cuteness.

A big messy fabric bow with a sunflower in the center.

Oh.EM.GEE. I just love how this turned out! Super cute Thrifted Pepper Grinder Queen Bee for the WIN

This Thrift Store Pepper Grinder Queen Bee looks so cute on the table next to my Sunflower Gallery Wall!

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