It's getting close to the 4th of July and I'm really excited for the next few crafts we have planned. The first one are these cute porch firecrackers. They are easy to make but they take a bit of time. Lucky for me, my sister let me come over to her house and craft so our puppies could run wild together and get out all of their energy...
So first off supplies! You will need:
-4x4 board cut into 3 pieces ( 3 feet, 2 feet, and 1 foot)*
-Spray paint in Red, White, and Blue
-6 wooden stars (Hobby Lobby)
- Three 6 inch pieces of rope (Home Depot)
-Ribbon (Hobby Lobby)
-Sandpaper
-Hot glue gun
*You can buy a board that's 8', we accidentally bought the 10' board and used the extra to make these seasonal
Welcome Posts. Definitely worth it!
So anyone with eyeballs can see that this is a VERY easy craft to make so I'll keep the instructions simple. It's basically just a lot of taping off and spray painting. We started off by spraying all of our 4x4's white.
After that dried we started taping them off and spraying them blue and red. It doesn't make a huge difference which color you start with, my sister and I did ours opposite so that we weren't using each others colors. The biggest thing is to make sure your colors are all the way dry before you start another.
Once everything is all the way dry all you have to do is sand the edges and glue on the stars and rope with a hot glue gun and you're done!
My sister sent me some pictures of welcome posts last week and we decided to make them our own. We added a fence post light and got some clearance decorations at Hobby Lobby and they turned out great! The best part about this craft is you can switch out the decorations for the different seasons and Holidays. I've always wanted one of those cute ladders to go on my porch but they end up being too big. This just went straight into the garden and didn't take up any of my decorating space.
Supplies:
- 4' 4x4 board
- Fence Post Light (You can get the ones we used at Home Depot for $5!)
- Hook (Home Depot)
- Paint
- Paint Brush
Here's the board that I started with. It was leftover wood from another craft we made the week before. I loved it because it had the mix of dark and light wood and had quite a few cracks in it.
As far as paint goes my sister and I went different ways with it. My sister used a watered down acrylic purple paint and I just went with whatever I had in my garage, which was some extra white paint we had laying around.
She painted hers all over with the paint and water and it ended up looking like this:
It ended up looking like a colored wood and turned out really pretty. Unfortunately my painting skills aren't all the way there so I like to try and make everything look "rustic" haha it turns out way easier for me because when I mess up I can pretend like it was just meant to be. So for mine I did the white paint all over my board but I really watered it down. Then i took some of the water and dripped it down the board to make it look like it had been outside for a while. This is what it looked like after the paint:
After that I used some faux glaze on the corners and in the cracks. I use this glaze for almost all of my crafts, we bought it a few years ago to redo our cabinets and it looks perfect on just about anything.
Once everything is dry you can add your light and screw your hook into the board.
Once you're all done you can bury the post in your garden. I think the best way to do it is dig your hole and add some water to it. Start filling it in and when it's half full add more water, then finish filling it in and water it down one more time. Adding the water helps the dirt to settle and keeps your post secure. If you're extra smart like my sister you can add some rocks to the bottom to stabilize it even more.
