DIY these quick and cheap scrap wood sailboats made from two pieces of scrap wood, dowels and scrap fabric!
Have you ever been decorating and knew you needed to fill a spot, but didn’t have that right something to fill it with? Well sometimes that necessity leads to something good. Today I want to show you the scrap wood decorative sailboats I made at the last minute to fill an empty spot on the mantel. The best part is there are no power tools needed and the whole project only takes about 10 minutes!
Scrap Wood Sailboats
Supplies
- Scrap wood (2″x6″)
- Skewers or small dowels
- Scrap fabric (white/off-white)
- Scrap fabric (blue)
- Glue gun and glue
- Nail
- Hammer
- Scissors or craft knife
- Sandpaper (optional)
Instructions
1. Select an off-cut piece of scrap wood. Mine were 2″x6″x6″ for the larger sailboat and 2″x6″x2″ for the smaller sailboat. Sand the edges if necessary.
2. Using the hammer and nail, make a small hole in the top of the wood where you’d like to place the mast (skewer or dowel). By all means, feel free to use a drill. Grabbing a random nail and the hammer was so much quicker for me than getting out the drill and correct drill bit!
3. Cut skewer or dowel to desired size (about 12″ long) using scissors or craft knife. Hot glue one end into the hole from step 2.
4. Cut two triangles of scrap fabric for each sailboat to make sails. I used pinking shears. One triangle should be a little smaller than the other. There is no magic size, just make triangles that fits your mast.
5. Run a bead of hot glue down the dowel on each side and attach fabric triangle sails (see photo below for detail of sails).
6. Cut a triangle or pennant shape from blue fabric for each sailboat and attach to top of mast using glue gun.
And you’re done. It’s as easy as that!
Now go whip up some of your own scrap wood sailboats to add a little summer to your house!
xo,
Shannon
Or for more fabulous summer inspiration go visit my friends:
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Hi Shannon. These are totally adorable! They look like something that I might actually be able to do.
Of course you could! 🙂
These are so cute! I think I’m going to make these with the grandkids this weekend. Thanks for the tutorial!
Great idea to make them with the kids!
I love the simplicity! I may do some with a couple of driftwood pieces I have…thanks for the inspiration!
I totally would have used driftwood if I’d had any! Turns out we have scrap pine more than driftwood!
I have seen similar boats made from driftwood but living in Phoenix there is not a lot of that available. These, however, are totally do able and completely darling!
There’s no a whole lot of driftwood available here near Toronto, Ontario either!
I love these Shannon! So simple yet so creative! My favorite kind of diy project 🙂
Simple seems to be everyone’s favorite! 🙂 xo
Shannon, these are adorable!! What a fun project!
Easy too!
Love them Shannon!!! Happy to team up with you today friend! Jen
Me too Jen!
Adorable, Shannon! We love making them with driftwood we find on the beach. LOVE your mantel too! x
These would look brilliant in my family room! I love the simple design. If you don’t mind I would love for you to come share this at Pin Your Friday Favorite on my blog. Have a great weekend!
Thanks!
These are so cute and they add perfect details to your nautical mantel 🙂 Lovely!
Roopini
Let’s Make It Lovely
These look great, Shannon! Love your “mantel” too!
Oh my heavens! These are adorable. They are so easy, but I LOVE what they did to the space!