Wooden Americana Signs

Good morning everyone! Are you all getting ready for Memorial Day on Monday? Are you deciding how to decorate your backyard and what food you are going to barbecue for your guests? Or maybe you aren’t having your own party, but you are attending someone else’s party. Whatever you are doing, I hope you have a great holiday!

But, for today, I have a great idea for you to decorate at your party!

I love making wooden signs for different reasons. And, of course, I had some extra small boards in storage that I had no use for. So, I pulled them out of storage, dusted them off, and started painting them.

I knew I wanted to do Memorial Day themed boards, so I used red, white,and blue paint from Rustoleum that I bought at Orchard Supply Hardware. I used Colonial Red, Navy Blue, and White.

And here is how the boards look after the paint job.

I knew that I wanted them to be even more patriotic than the paint job. I wanted to put the lyrics from Lee Greenwoods “Proud to be an American” on the red board, a star on the blue board, and USA on the white board. So I printed out the designs that I wanted using fonts from Microsoft Word and a star that I found on Google.

I rubbed pencil on the back of the papers and then sketched the designs onto the boards. The hardest one was the red board because the pencil marks were very light and were very hard to see on the dark paint. But…I managed. I then used a red sharpie for the USA board and white paint for the other two.

And here is how they turned out.

I really like how they look. They are perfect for Memorial Day and 4th of July, but they could look really nice with any red, white, and blue decor. They were extremely easy to make were a lot of fun to do. It was also fun to find the different fonts to use on the boards and make everything look nice.

Thank you guys for stopping by. See some of my other board projects by clicking on the pictures below!