Decorative Birdhouses – An Upcycled Greeting Card Craft

Make these beautiful decorative birdhouses for Spring!

I found three unfinished wooden birdhouses at Dollar Tree and decided to fancy them up by adding floral greeting card cutouts to the fronts.

I made three decorative birdhouses with stands. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to use old greeting cards to decorate unfinished wooden birdhouses and how to make a wooden pedestal stand.

Supplies

• Wooden craft birdhouses (mine are from Dollar Tree)
• Floral greeting cards
• Pastel acrylic or chalk paint
• A paintbrush
• Mod Podge
• Clear scotch tape
• Paper
• Scissors
• X-Acto (precision knife)
• Other decorations: silk flowers and miniature birds

Supplies To Make The Stand (optional)

• A small hand-saw
• A vice grip
• wood glue
• A wood dowel
• A 3.5 to 4-inch wood slice
• A drill and drill bit (more on this below)
• A hot glue gun

How to Make Decorative Birdhouses – 3 Easy Steps

STEP 1: paint

Start by painting your birdhouses in any color you like. I used white chalk paint mixed with acrylic paint to make pastel colors.

STEP 2: Make A Template and Cut The Front Panel

Make a paper template of the front of your birdhouse. I used an X-Acto knife to cut the holes. Add and cut away the paper until you get the right shape. Once you have a template that works, use it to cut your greeting card.

Another way to figure out where to cut the holes is to press your template into the holes to make an indent. I did this on the last birdhouse with two holes. See the photo below…

STEP 3: Mod Podge

Use Mod Podge to glue the greeting card panels to the front of the birdhouses. Coat the front of the birdhouse with Mod Podge and place your card panel.

Coat the entire front panel with Mod Podge as well.

STEP 4: Make a Wood Pedestal Stand (optional)

Use a hand saw to cut your dowel down to size. Since I made three, I decided to vary the heights of my birdhouse perches and cut dowels 3, 4, and 5 inches long.

Drill a hole into the center of a wood slice that is slightly larger than the dowel. Your dowel should fit snuggly into the hole.

Use hot glue to glue the birdhouse to the center of the dowel. Apply wood glue to the other end of the dowel and push it into the hole in the wood slice.

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