Our Family Growth Chart

This is another idea I got from Pinterest, and I knew I had to make it. This past Mother's Day, Danny and I made a family growth chart and I am in LOVE with it. I wanted a growth chart for Emmy, but I didn't want one of the standard ones, and I wanted all of our children to be on one instead of having 2-3 growth charts. This one fits my style and we totally made it our "own." Here's how we did it!

Supplies: (You can get as fancy or simple as you like with this, but this is what we needed)
-1X12X6 wood board
-small container of white paint
-paint brushes
-stencils or address numbers
-small colored paints (we used grey for the tick marks, and purple, orange and red for our height colors)
-hammer
-level

We wanted to use address numbers that we got at Home Depot for our "ruler" effect. You can use stencils just the same and it'd be a lot cheaper. Our numbers came in black, so Danny strung string through them, hung them up and spray painted them grey.

While he was doing that, I started to whitewash our board. I put white paint in a bowl, and then added water to make it "washed out." The key to whitewashing is long strokes!

 

Once that was dry, I used a level and measured out the inch and foot tick marks. I marked it in pencil first then went back over it with the grey paint.

Once that was dry, we hammered in the metal numbers. And for good measure, our little pumpkin :)



Then we made a template of a line for the height and a circle for the marker out of cardstock paper.

I used the template to paint on the lines and circles of our heights. I'm going to get the paper laminated so I can always use it when we update this every 6 months for the kids. You can personalize colors, shapes, etc. I painted a white "B" in the middle for her birth height, and I did 8M for 8 months. Once we reach a year I'll just do numbers.

At the bottom we did a "key" for each of our colors and room for any additions that may come along ;) And that's it! We hung it in Emily's room and it looks absolutely adorable. I can't wait to watch our family grow with our growth chart!