Craft Wood Painting Ideas

Craft wood painting is easier than you may think, especially if you know a few simple techniques. You can find stencils and templates at your local craft store to help you create any type of design you like, or you can project an image onto the wood to help even the most artistically challenged person create a beautiful art piece.

Birdhouse

Decorate a plain craft wood birdhouse with exterior spray paint and acrylics for an attractive addition to your landscape. You'll need to sand the wood with medium-grade sandpaper to remove any splinters or rough spots. Follow with light-grade sandpaper to remove most of the scratches that the stronger paper left behind. Spray paint the background color with indoor/outdoor paint, and let it dry completely before you begin to paint the decorative features. If your birdhouse is shaped like a home, paint windows on the sides and a door around the center hole. You can decorate a pitched birdhouse roof with painted shingles to resemble a gingerbread house. Let your imagination guide you to create a work of art that your feathered friends will flock to and call home.

Childrens' Table & Chairs

Consider painting a table and chair set for your children that entices them to sit and play or create crafts of their own. Cut out wooden butterfly wings for the backs of the chairs and paint them in a variety of colors. You can pair these with a garden theme table filled with a green meadow and painted flowers. You can also paint a wooden table set that coordinates with the theme of their bedroom. If your children are budding astronomers, paint a skyscape with planets and stars on the table and chairs. To paint a simple craft table that you both will love, let the kids get involved by placing different colored handprints around the perimeter of the table. Paint their names on the backs of the chairs so everyone has a special place.

Storage Cabinet Mural

Transform a wooden storage cabinet with a painted fence and flower scene as if it were part of a garden landscape. You can find stencils or project an image onto the cabinet to make painting a mural much easier. Simply trace the projected outline and fill it in with color for a simple, painted mural. If flowers aren't your thing, you can paint any scene or image that you like with this simple painting technique.