DIY Growth Chart

At the end of the month I plan to share the Pinterest inspired creations that I've accomplished this month. I'll try to do it each moth - hopefully to force me to actually do/make/try some of the billions of things I pin. While this growth chart is a pinterest project that I finally finished this month, I really started it several months back. I first purchased the wood thinking I'd be able to finish the growth chart in no time, only I didn't know what look I wanted so let it sit in the garage and kinda forgot about it. My friend Priscilla made a really cute chart that looks similar to the ones you see in Pottery Barn (for a ridiculous amount of money), but I also liked this one and this one.

In the end the chevrons won, because chevrons are the it shape right now and my growth chart has to be trendy! Really, I just thought it was cute, although a pain in the arse to tape. I don't see too many more chevron projects in my future. Some of the examples I liked had cute tags to annotate measurements, but I decided against those as I didn't want Finn to bump into them or pull them out (in his case probably both).

So, here are the supplies I used:

I stained the wood with a few coats:

Cut out numbers on my silhoutte:

Taped off the chevrons:

Spray painted the board:

Measured my numbers and used a sharpie to fill them in:

Decided this was too bright:

So I used sand paper to distress it a bit:

And applied a protective clear coat on top:

Then (a month later) I finally got around to hanging it:

I made sure to include both kiddos:

And that's that. I don't remember the total cost of the project, but the wood was about $6 and I had a lot of the other materials on hand. But even if you need to buy stain and paint, you still are looking at no more than about $15 total. Bring it Pinterest.

................................................................................................