DIY Beeswax food wrap

I like to use beeswax food wraps as it reduces the amount of waste in my home. Buying beeswax wraps can be expensive, and its easy to make your own. I made four wraps today in less than an hour. It doesn’t require any sewing and it doesn’t require much skill. You can also choose the fabric pattern you want so you have something that matching your style and your kitchen! If you haven’t used a beeswax food wrap before, it’s easy, you just place the fabric over the dish or cut side of a fruit and use the heat from your hands to stick it together. Once you’re done, rinse it with cold water, lay flat and put it away once it’s dry.

Food Wrap Materials

• Cotton fabric – you can choose whatever size wraps you want, I did fat quarters and scrap fabric. It’s good to have a variety of sizes to cover your food (8×8 is great for covering fruit, it’s also good to have one for casserole dishes)
• Food grade beeswax pellets
• Foam paintbrush 9this will ruin the brush, make sure it’s not a foam brush you like too much)
• old newspaper
• pinking shears
• cookie sheet

Tutorial

Cut your fabric to the desired size using your pinking shears.

Now it’s time to set up your wax melting. Preheat your oven to about 200 degrees or “warm”. While it’s heating up, put a few pieces of newspaper on your cookie tray. Put the the fabric on top. If you are doing multiple small pieces you can do them at the same time, just make sure they aren’t touching each other. Place the pellets on your fabric. Put a generous amount of wax on your fabric, but if you need more you can always add.

Place your fabric in the oven for a few minutes. Watch to make sure your wax is melted. Once it’s melted pull it out and use the brush to spread the wax across your fabric. Repeat if you need to add wax or if it isn’t spreading evenly.

Once the fabric is fully saturated on both sides, let it cool enough that you can pick it up. Hold the fabric up and wave it until it’s cool. If you let the fabric dry on the paper it will pool onto the paper and won’t come off easily.

Let the wrap dry until it’s room temperature. Now your food wrap is ready to use!

For more no sew projects, try these finger puppets