Wood Craft Ideas

Kids love to make crafts out of wood by sticking two wooden popsicle sticks together to make a doll or folding origami paper to make a flower over one wooden stick. Wood crafts can be made from any kinds of wood like branches, twigs and sticks. You can make absolutely anything with wood and decorate your home or make projects for school. Wood arts and crafts are a skillful activity which is fun when you do it in a team. It can be very impressive when many creative wood craft ideas come together to make beautiful artistic structures and pieces of imagination. Given below are a few such wood craft ideas which you can use for projects as well as interior decorations for your home.

Easy Wood Craft Ideas

Wood craft ideas can be innovative and put into the right presentation when they are organized well. Before starting with any of the ideas, you should always make sure you have a rough draft made on paper with the procedure and materials needed to make the wood craft. Then go ahead and collect the required materials and once everything is ready, start making the crafts. Find out some interesting wood craft ideas which are very simple to make and do not take too much preparation time.

Birdhouse

Materials

• Empty and clean milk carton
• Black, gray or brown paint
• Wooden planks (small sizes)
• Tacky glue
• Scissors
• Ruler and Pencil
• String

Directions

Measure 3'' from the bottom of the milk carton and cut into two pieces saving both the top and the bottom. Then cut a 2'' circle in the middle front of the top piece and cut the bottom piece about 1'' high. Then make a roof with the other parts of the cut carton and stick them together in an adjacent manner with glue. Gather the wooden planks and cut them or break them in similar lengths.

With the glue, stick them carefully over this carton birdhouse and leave the circle in the middle front open. Place one stick perpendicular to the circle as place for the birds to sit and examine the house. Cover the entire house along with the roof with these twigs and then paint it with dark colors. Keep the birdhouse on a tree or anyplace in the garden and wait for those little birds to make it their home.

Popsicle Stick Decorative Centerpieces

Materials

• Ice cream sticks
• Craft glue
• Markers or crayons

Directions

To make this one of small wood craft ideas, you need to arrange two sticks in the form of an inverted V and apply glue on one side of both the sticks. Then arrange more sticks horizontally over the glued side of the two sticks. The horizontal sticks should be closed pasted on the inverted V and parallel in arrangement. Once they are dried, take half of one stick and stick it with a cello-tape on the back side of these horizontal sticks to create a stand for the centerpiece. Turn it over and color the whole craft with beautiful colors and make it look very attractive. If you want you can write a message in the center stick of the horizontal ones to keep it on the table like a "thank you" or a "welcome". Wasn't that one of these interesting wood craft ideas? More on wood carvings and crafts.

Butterfly Wind Chime

Materials

• Paper butterflies
• Twigs and a circular wood piece
• Black thread
• Wire
• Needles

Directions

Take a thin metal wire and make a small loop on one of its ends. Fold the other end onto the center of a twig in such a way that it does not loosen. With the help of needles, stitch the black thread in to the paper butterflies and tie a knot so they don't fall off. Tie the other end of one such butterfly to one end of the first twig. On the other end tie a plane thread which has another twig tied to its other end. Tie another butterfly to one end of the second twig and another thread with a third twig on the other end of the second twig. Then to this twig, tie two butterflies on both the ends to give it a colorful look. Stick this entire wind chime to a circular piece of wood with a hole in the center to put the wire loop through. Hang this wind chime around the house or in the backyard. More on woodworking for beginners.

These wood craft ideas can definitely give the artist in you a push as there are so many things you can do with wood. If you have wood that is going to be disposed of or any unwanted wooden materials, you can come up with your own wood craft ideas and put them to use. So, have fun creating beautiful wood crafts in and around your home.