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Top 10 DIY Wood Crafts to Decorate
Wood crafts are great for creating personalized projects, and we’ve shared a few of our favorites. These projects offer success to a wide variety of crafters, regardless of their age or abilities. Select a wood craft item for your group, add a variety of paints, brushes, papers, glue and embellishment supplies and see what everyone creates!
Wood Plaques
These Budget Plaques come in a pack of 12 and have scalloped corners which adds flare! Our samples below were made with acrylic paints and the lettering is done with acrylic paint markers. You can also use liquid paint and a permanent marker.
These Oval Plaques are perfect for so many projects! Our sample below was created by painting the plaque first with a watercolor wash, and then adding puff paint details.
This laser cut wood Anchor Plaque can be customized for all sorts of projects and themes! We used acrylic paints and our multi-surface markers to create the “Hope Is My Anchor” design below.
For a fun photo transfer activity, use our Wood Plaque Assortments. You can transfer any photo you’d like onto these plaques – they make great keepsake gifts. View the step by step tutorial here.
Inspirational Wood Art
Our double-sided wood plaques feature sayings on both sides! These Positive Vibe Plaques have “Choose Happy” on one side and “Good Vibes” on the other. The lettering is lightly laser burned so that you can easily paint or stain the lettering and add your own designs around the edges. Perfect for wood burning, paint, stain or marker. Jute is included for hanging the plaques.
We created the samples below by blending acrylic paints together on the plaques and then using metallic and regular paint markers for the lettering detail. You can also use acrylic paints and a sponge painting technique for the outer border.
Choose the box
Any wood box is fair game for acrylic painting. If you have the opportunity to start with a raw wood box, even better!
When you choose your box, check if it has varnish. If it does, use sandpaper to smooth it down from the wooden surface.
Use label remover to take off any stickers or residue.
Choose your paint
When choosing paint for this painted wooden box, you have many options.
Cheaper paint for the dollar store will have sheer coverage. If you like that look, awesome! Otherwise you’ll have to apply several coats.
For a more opaque look, go with a higher quality paint that has one coat coverage.
Decide if you want an embellishment for the top
Each box is a story ready to be told! You can paint a design or add a focal point on top! Just make sure it has a smooth backing so it will stay firmly to the box.
Each cruiser also received this gorgeous heart and wing set from Relics and Artifacts
