Wooden garden ornaments, even with the simplest shapes, provide additional extraordinary touch to your landscape. The easiest way to create ornaments such creations is to use plywood treated in any way you like, such as making wooden Santa in his sleigh or a basket of wooden Easter eggs for the holidays or to make a wooden tulips or daffodils planted permanently form around the base of a large tree. To enhance its beauty, you can decorate these ornaments with paint and line them up with string lights to enhance your outdoor space.
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To start this simple project of wooden garden ornaments manufacturing, you have to prepare all the equipment and materials completely and accurately. It would be better if you have a checklist to see if all the materials and tools you need are available. The equipment and materials which are needed to complete this project are as follows:
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- 1/2-inch-thick treated plywood
- Ornament template
- Masking tape
- Pen or marker
- Drill
- 1/2-inch wood drill bit
- Sawhorses or workbench
- Jigsaw
- Medium- and light-grade sandpaper
- Acrylic paint
- Paintbrushes
- Exterior polyurethane
- 2-inch-wide, 1-inch-thick treated wood strip
- Circular saw or hacksaw
- Decking screws
- Screwdriver
Once you get all the equipment and materials needed, immediately begin the manufacture of ornaments to place 1/2-inch treated plywood sheet on a flat surface. Tape the template to the plywood ornaments. If you want a template that is ready to be used, you can get them at craft stores, where you can find templates in a variety of designs. But if you are people who have creativity and good taste, you can draw your own templates that you want on paper or cardboard, and then cut it.
Once you get the template that you want, immediately continue your work by tracing the outline of the shape of ornaments to the plywood with a pen or marker. Then position the plywood on the horses or a work desk and drill a 1/2-inch hole nearby and beyond the line of ornaments.
Insert the jigsaw blade through a 1/2-inch starter hole. Turn jigsaw and cut to the line of ornaments. Carefully cut the ornaments follow the line. Shifting plywood jigsaw required to allow access to the trail line.
If you’ve done with the previous steps, you can continue to next step by sanding cut edges, front and rear wooden ornaments with sandpaper middle class. Go to the same area again with light-grade sandpaper. Remove sanding debris.
Paint the front and cutting edge wooden yard ornaments with acrylic paint or latex exterior paint. Let the paint dry. Paint both sides and edges of wood with polyurethane exterior ornamentation. Allow the polyurethane to dry.
Cut 2-inch-wide, 1-inch-thick strips of treated wood to fit the height of ornaments, plus 12 inches. Paint the front strip to match the front ornament. Let the finish dry. Close all sides of the strip of wood with polyurethane exterior. Let the polyurethane dry.
Attach strips of wood to the back side of the wooden ornaments with decking screws. The 12-inch extra should extend from the bottom of the wooden ornaments. Finally, your job is exactly done well after you finish this step; enter the 12-inch strip of wood to risk ornament page. Wooden garden ornaments are classic, but they are still the most popular ornaments for every garden because they’re simple and chic. Now, you can create your own ornaments by following those steps above.
