Easy Growth Chart to last Forever!

I will make a super long story short, and give short and simple directions so you can make your own. 



Story: Our sweet neighbor needed help rebuilding a small fence. My sweet husband offered to help and well, since he has a truck, he kinda got stuck with all of the scrap wood and it was obvious that he would have to take it to the dump. It was a gold mine for me! I picked out the pieces that I wanted and off to the dump he went. Wait!! before I let him go, I posted the free wood on craigslist.. most of it was gone within 2 days. I posted all of the ideas that I had that people can do with it (make a bench, a star, a growth chart and so on) this may have helped get rid of it. The End!
I was saving this piece for a bench, but decided to use it for my Growth Chart.

here are the simple steps.

1. Steal a ruler from your kids homschool room. You will need a 1 foot ruler.

2. measure 1 foot and mark it with a sharpie. Mark it lightly or it will bleed.

3. Aftner I measured and marked all the feet, I measuredand markd all of the 1/2's.

4. Then I measured 2 inches and marked.

5. I went back with my sharpie and measured from the edge of the board 3 inches to mae the line.

6. the 1/2 foot mark was measured 2 inches,

7 and the 2 inch marks were measured 1 inch.

(These are the lines drawn across). 1 foot 3inches. 1/2 foot 2 inches and 2 inches 1 inch.) I hope this makes sense!!

Then I painted with Eggshell white paint from Lowes. I used a fine tip brush.

After it dried, I stapled my stencils where I wanted them and painted my numbers.

 

Now the hubby will be sealing this to prevent splintering. This is a very old piece of wood and it will definitely splinter.

 After it is sealed, I will use a sharpie on Thanksgiving day and on the left side I will mark the date, kids name and height.

I will Keep this forever!

What do you think??

If you can't get an old piece of wook like I did, you can find a new piece of fence wood at Lowes or Home Depot.  They run between $2.00-$8.00.. Paint it, distress it and make it your very own for your unique family.