Looking for some Halloween Decorations for your home this Halloween? Check out how we made our Halloween DIY Sign so you can make a Halloween Sign too.
HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS
We love celebrating Halloween at our house. Halloween is the beginning of the Holiday Season and my favorite time of the year. We don’t go crazy with our Halloween Decorations, but I do like to have a couple areas in my home dedicated to Halloween Decor. One of my favorite ways to decorate is with a Halloween DIY sign.
Do you like to decorate for the Holidays? Here are some of the past Halloween Decorations we have shared on our site if you are interested in creating them for your own home!
HALLOWEEN DECORATING IDEAS
- Skull Anatomy Sign Printable
- Spell Book Printable Covers
- Salem Broom Co. Sign
- Halloween Drink Labels
- Something Wicked This Way Comes Printable Sign
- Halloween Ghosts
- Halloween Treat Printable
- Love Potion no. 9 Label
- Trick or Treat Pillow
- Candy Corn Pillow
- Halloween Apothecary
HALLOWEEN DIY SIGN
As you can see if you have been following along for a while, I love making these wooden typography signs! I love how classy they feel in my home, but also add a fun and festive feeling to my Holiday Halloween Decor. I have made a few of these Halloween DIY Signs to hang in my home for Halloween Decor. They are super easy to make and today I am sharing how to make our latest Halloween DIY Sign.
HOW TO MAKE WOODEN SIGNS
Materials needed:
- 1 piece of wood
- 2 side pieces
- 2 side pieces
- white paint
- black paint
- paint brushes/roller
- sand paper
- nails/staples
- stain (I use this one)
- stain rag
- picture hanger (I used this one)
- October 31 stencil (download the png file here or the Cricut file here)
- Cricut Maker (or other Cricut vinyl cutting machine)
- cutting vinyl
- transfer tape
Directions:
1. Cut your wood to your desired measurements, or use the measurements I did. Lightly sand board so that it is smooth of the front and around the edges of the board. Wipe off dust with a damp cloth.
2. Paint your wood white and let it dry completely.
3. Take your stencil or vinyl cut out and place it onto your board so that it is centered.
4. Stencil the words onto the board with black paint (or your favorite color) and peel up the vinyl carefully.
5. Let the sign dry completely at least a few hours so that the paint will not smear when you sand it.
6. Sand the sign down roughly on the edges as much as you want it to have a distressed look. Run the sand paper over the entire flag so that it looks a little worn and aged. Again, do this to your own personal preferences.
7. While the paint is drying, you can cut your side pieces for your sign frame. You will need to cut two different lengths of your frame using the measurements above. Two will be the top and bottom frames and two will be the sides of the frame.
8. Stain them with your favorite color of stain and let them dry. I used this stain.
9. After the stain has dried and the sign is sanded, you can nail or staple the frame onto the flag.
10. Add a picture hanger to the back of the Halloween sign and hang in your home!
TYPOGRAPHY WOOD SIGNS
If you are a wooden sign fan as much as I am, you might want to check out these other typography wood signs I have shared in the past. For each of them I share a tutorial and the cut file so you can make one too!
- Salem Broom Co. Sign
- Fall Pumpkin Sign
- Thankful Sign
- Tune My Heart Fall Sign
- JOY Sign
- Oh Holy Night Christmas Sign
- Lighted Believe Sign
- Initial Monogram Sign
- Kitchen Grocery Sign
- Fourth of July Sign
- Wood Flag Sign
Will you be making one? I love to hear from my readers when they make something I have shared! Thanks so much for stopping by! xoxo
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Cute sign!! Question about the frame- what size wood did you use? Like what wood piece do I buy at lumberyard? Thank you!
I usually buy Wood Trim thats (1 x 2 cut to fit all four sides of the sign). Hope that helps. Have fun with the project. They really are so simple to make, once you get the hang of it.
I absolutely love the sign!! I need to find a frame & do this! Excited to put my Halloween decor out!
Natalie- Thank you.
I need this! I literally just put my Halloween stuff out this week & this would be so cute on my shelf!
Kristyn- It was a fun project to make. I hope you make one.
When I try and upload it to design space from the link it always tells me it’s saved as private. btw Thank you for all the projects and recipes
Becky- I will look into it. Thank you for letting me know about this!
Cute sign! By chance can you make it a printable sign as I don’t have a cricut maker. Thank you!
Mary Beth- Yes there is a pdf to print out so that you can do that.
What does the back of the sign look like? I’m trying to picture how you staple the frame to the board? Thank you!
Theresa- I don’t have a picture of the back of the board. The white part is covering the wood frame on the back side so that you can staple them together. Hope that makes sense? If you have any other questions, please let me know.