Finished Project:
Materials:
Pencil
Multiple tiny paint brushes
Blue Painters Tape
Measuring Tape
Black Acrylic Paint (Apple Barrel 20504 Black)
Green Acrylic Paint (Apple Barrel 20528 Leaf Green)
Light Green Acrylic Paint (Apple Barrel 21342 Catepillar)
Dark Green Acrylic Paint (Apple Barrel 20756 English Ivy Green)
Step 1: Measure where the inches are going to be with a pencil. Decide how thick you want your lines to be and make the center of those lines the center of the ticks. For every foot make the tick almost twice as long. Blue Painters Tape around it.
Step 2: Black Paint. Remove Blue Tape. Eat Chips and Guacamole.
Step 3: Add the Numbers. We printed off the numbers off the computer and then traced them in pencil on the wood. Then very carefully filled in the traces with painting in the black paint.
Step 4: Draw your leaves, branches, vines, tree, etc. design in pencil.
Step 5: Start painting green leaves. Easiest to do one color at a time and then let dry for at least an hour before next color.
Step 6: Start painting vines and swirls of vines very carefully in dark green.
Step 7: Paint light green vines and vine swirls.
Step 8: Erase all extra pencil lines real good with a good eraser.
Last Step: Coat entire board with clear coating.
Start recording heights :-)
What a fun idea! This looks awesome. I love that you can take it with you wherever you go -- much better than marking right on the wall! Thanks for the great tutorial :)
ReplyDeleteGreat job Riley!
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI'm doing a round-up post on Disney Baby about DIY Growth Charts and wondered if I could include yours. I'd just use one photo (with the photo credited to you) plus link back to your site for the full instructions. Would that be okay?
Thanks,
Janssen
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