How to Make Copper Cookie Cutters to Sell at a Craft Show

Copper cookie cutters are quite the thing in some kitchens today. People are using copper cookie cutters to decorate their walls and to cut out their cookies. These copper cookie cutters are simple and fun to make.

You Need:

One-inch wide copper strips

Gorilla Glue or Copper Rivets

Imagination, Paper, String, Clamp

Step One: You need to buy some one-inch wide copper strips, or a roll of one-inch wide 5Mil copper. You want copper that you can bend with your hands that is still stiff enough to hold its shape as you are making your copper cookie cutter.

Step Two: Trace the outline of an item picture that you would like to make into a copper cookie cutter onto a piece of paper. You can get ideas by looking at other cookie cutters, in clip art, or in children's books and coloring books. Your cookie cutter shape should not have little parts sticking off of the sides, or they will burn before your cookie is done.

Popular copper cookie cutter shapes today are medieval dragons or designs, transportation, poker or sports, weddings, and animals.

Step Three: After you have traced your picture onto a piece of paper, take a piece of string and outline the edge of the picture to find out how big it is. Using this string measure the length of copper strip, and add one inch to the amount that you will need. Cut your copper with some sturdy scissors or tin snips. Be very careful handling the copper because it is sharp.

Step Four: Shape your copper strip to match your copper cookie cutter paper outline. For rounded areas use items like cans to press against, for a bend tap on a straight edge scraper to lightly score the copper and then bend along the line. Continue bending your copper strip into a copper cookie cutter shape until your end pieces are overlapping.

Step Five: To attach your copper cookie cutter, you can use a copper wire rivet. The easy way to attach the ends of the copper cookie cutter is to use a very tiny amount of Gorilla Glue, making sure than none of it is coming out of the sides of the mold. Clamp the glued ends of the copper cookie cutter overnight to let them thoroughly dry.

Step Six: After your copper cookie cutter art is dry, use a sanding tool and lightly sand the edges of your copper cookie cutter to smooth all rough edges.

Costs:

Copper cookie cutter one-inch wide strips run about 2.00 a foot. Finished five-inch tall cookie cutter sell for about 8.00 each at craft shows and in kitchen stores.

Options:

Copper cookie cutters do not have to be made out of copper. Some people enjoy making their cookie cutters out of heavy aluminum foil pans cut into strips, or thin stainless one-inch wide strips.