How a farmhouse letter board sign makes you a better speller.
What is something from your youth that you’re seeing now on Pinterest?
My blast from the past… the letter board signs. One of the many elementary schools I attended had one in the office. They used it as a reminder for special days. Picture day, Valentine’s day, teacher conferences {gulp} and the best one…have a great summer!
I wanted the job of setting up the letter board.
They might have questioned my spelling abilities cause I have never touched a letter board to this day.
Farmhouse Letter Board Sign
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Although I have the letters! Just no board. So I made one. A farmhouse style letter board.
The supplies for a farmhouse letter board
- One thrift store frame {mine is 8 by 5}
- Cardboard backing from the frame
- Quilt batting
- Scissors
- Burlap
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Craft glue
- Duct tape {I used hot pink and do not recommend that color}
- Stapler
- Letters for a letter board
The steps to make the board
If your frame has a cardboard back use that. For .25¢ mine didn’t have a back. So I cut a piece from a cardboard box.
Next, I applied a bead of craft glue around the edge of the cardboard.
Then I cut 6 layers of quilt batting about 1/2 smaller than the cardboard. Next, I stacked the layer on the cardboard into the glue.
Cut a piece from the burlap about 1/2 larger than the cardboard.
Now for some hot pink duct tape. I have brown upstairs. :/ Carefully apply the tape to the 4 edges of the burlap. Then wrap the tape around the cardboard back.
To keep things extra secure, I added staples along the very edge. Make sure to staple through the cardboard.
Then add the layers to the frame. After all the layers, I didn’t secure the back. It was a tight fit. Otherwise, add tape to hold or those small nails or frame clips.
While doing research for this post I found several Letter boards on Amazon. Some in different colors. Even pink to match my duct tape!!
So, do you say, Autumn or Fall?
I forgot to add a question mark to my farmhouse letter board sign!! Oh well.
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Your letter board is charming! How do the letters stay on? I thought they needed a channel to fit into.
Thank you so much, Sandra! The letters fit between the threads of the burlap. I just wiggled the letter a bit until the threads opened a little. I hope you keep following me, I have two more ideas for “unique” letterboards coming soon. One involves a chalkboard eraser. Wink, wink!