Monday, July 29, 2013

Seasonal Blocks - a word for every season!

I have been wanting to make a set of seasonal wood blocks for a very long time. Seriously, like before pinterest even came out. I found this fabulous idea from Kierste at Simply Kierste who got the idea from Little Birdie Secrets. I finally made a set (and then I gave them away...so I will have to make another set soon!)
Anyway, they are super cute and they can spell a variety of words because there is a letter on each of the four sides. So you can leave them up all year if you want to.
I went to Home Depot to get a large 4x4. And then I had them cut it into squares. TIP: A 4x4 post is actually more like 3.75x3.75, so measure first to know what size the cuts should be in order to make squares. I now have a gazillion blocks. And you only need 7 blocks for this project - so I will be coming up with more creative ways to use them soon.

I painted my blocks white with some leftover wall paint. The wood really eats the paint up, so spray paint is not your best option. I also used leftover wall paint for the letters.

Then I thought about cutting out letters with my cricut, but that seemed like an awful lot of cutting and placing to do, so I bought a pack of 3 inch stencils instead! They worked well. I watched about 8 episodes of Cake Boss on Amazon Prime while stenciling away.

Here's the letters that go on each block:

Block 1: H, Y, E, D
Block 2: A, C, R, S
Block 3: R, P, E, T
Block 4: V, N, L, O
Block 5: E, O, M, D
Block 6: S, M, K, I
Block 7: T, F, B, W
BLOCK 1- H, Y, E, D
BLOCK 2- A, C, R, S
BLOCK 3- R, P, E, T
BLOCK 4- V, N, L, O
BLOCK 5- E, O, M, D
BLOCK 6- S, M, K, I
BLOCK 7- T, F, B, W - See more at: http://simplykierste.com/2009/09/seasonal-wood-blocks.html#sthash.zjnlTgnE.dpuf
BLOCK 1- H, Y, E, D
BLOCK 2- A, C, R, S
BLOCK 3- R, P, E, T
BLOCK 4- V, N, L, O
BLOCK 5- E, O, M, D
BLOCK 6- S, M, K, I
BLOCK 7- T, F, B, W - See more at: http://simplykierste.com/2009/09/seasonal-wood-blocks.html#sthash.zjnlTgnE.dpuf

BLOCK 1- H, Y, E, D
BLOCK 2- A, C, R, S
BLOCK 3- R, P, E, T
BLOCK 4- V, N, L, O
BLOCK 5- E, O, M, D
BLOCK 6- S, M, K, I
BLOCK 7- T, F, B, W - See more at: http://simplykierste.com/2009/09/seasonal-wood-blocks.html#sthash.zjnlTgnE.dpuf
 And here's a few of my favorite words!
All of the words that you can spell are:
Harvest, Welcome, Friends, Faith, Family, Spooky, Winter, Freedom, Blessed, Snow, Home, Hope, Monster, Mother, Madre, Dream, Easter

How fun is that? Go make them and then show me how they turn out!
 
BLOCK 1- H, Y, E, D
BLOCK 2- A, C, R, S
BLOCK 3- R, P, E, T
BLOCK 4- V, N, L, O
BLOCK 5- E, O, M, D
BLOCK 6- S, M, K, I
BLOCK 7- T, F, B, W - See more at: http://simplykierste.com/2009/09/seasonal-wood-blocks.html#sthash.zjnlTgnE.dpuf

6 comments:

  1. Whoa! That is a super-cool idea. I will pin this to keep it in mind!

    -Maria
    Everyone deServes to Learn

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  2. I love those! Going to get some wood blocks this weekend!

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  3. Such a cute idea! It's crazy how many words you can spell out with just 7 blocks!

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  4. I love blocks. And seasonal ones are perfect. Love this idea!!!! Thanks for sharing this at Throwback Thursdays.

    xoxo
    Denyse

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