Recently, I have noticed that wooden door hangers are becoming extremely popular -I especially love the Mason Jar Door Hangers.? The Jack-O-Lantern is any easy one to start with.? I love creating, and?it is an outlet for me.?Don’t be afraid to give this craft a try because everyone can draw a Jack-O-Lantern!
Materials:
Acrylic Paint- black, white and orange
Paintbrushes
Water Jar
Jig Saw
1/4″ Plywood
Wire for hanging
Drill?(bit depends on size of wire)
Pencil
Step 1:
First you will need 1/4″ plywood.? The size depends on how many you plan to make.? I guarantee that you will want to make more than one!? My jar is approximately 20″ x 13″.? The jar shape is fairly easy to draw, and it is okay if your jar is not perfectly symmetrical.? Draw your jar shape on your plywood in pencil and cut it out using your jig saw.? Before you begin painting drill two holes at the top of your jar about two inches apart.
Step 2:
Paint your Jack-O-Lantern orange.? You may want to paint it a couple of times because wood tends to absorb paint.? As you can see from my image the knots and grooves in the wood still show.
Step 3:
Once your paint dries I recommend drawing out the face of your Jack-O-Lantern in pencil. Then you can paint your Jack-O-Lantern’s features using black.
Step 4:
Now?paint your lid gray with black shadows and white highlights.??Add reflections as you see fit?using black and white lines outlining the shape of your jar.? Feel free to add reflections to your Jack-O-Lantern’s features.
Happy Halloween!!
That is so cute. This is the kind of crafts I like to do. I love seasonal crafts as well as just everyday crafts but there is just something about the Halloween/Fall crafts that I just love.
I love Halloween Decor. This craft is fun and cute and I am sure all children will love to see it.
What a cute idea! I love the size of it on the door! Looks fantastic!
what a cute, simple fall decoration craft! i’m a big mason jar fan too 🙂
I just love this craft Idea! It is so fun to make, and I want to make one of these for my front door. I will have to get the stuff to make this!
How cute…and easy enough for me to do with my girls! I think Halloween is my favorite time to decorate…maybe second to Christmas 🙂
I am so going to do this for the coming Halloween. Love to do new DIY decos for my house.
I really like the way that turned out. It’s cute and festive.
THis is such an inexpensive and cute idea!!! I’m going to do this craft with the kiddos, it’ll be cute!!! Much better than just plopping pumpkins on our porch (which the squirrels eat up) 🙂 Thanks for the idea!
These are very cute halloween pumpkin decorations.
This DIY Jack-O-Lantern Mason Jar Door Hanger is so cute and unique as well. This would be perfect to get my niece and nephew to help make with me for our front door. Thanks for the info on how to make this cool DIY project.
This is super cute and easy to do too
THIS is very creative, you did a great job!
This is really cute and even tho i am not to crafty i think i could make this im going to try hope it turns out as nice as yours did
This is such a cute idea. I love all of your crafting projects.
You did a great job. Hard to believe it is Halloween time! Yikes!