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May 9, 2019 by: Brenna Naufel

DIY Wood Clipboards to Display Kid’s Artwork

DIY Wood Clipboards for Kids Artwork

Hello there! I’m back with yet another way to nicely display your children’s artwork while keeping it super easy to change out what is on display. I’m a little cray cray when it comes to my kiddo’s creations. What’s best is that I was able to use leftover pressed pine board from our rock wall bunk bed project, so these were uber inexpensive!

DIY Wood Clipboard Instructions:

  1. Cut 4 equal pieces of wood (ours are size 9 1/2″ x 14 1/2″). You want to ensure that they are long enough to handle regular-sized paper from where the clip is. The 14-ish” has worked really well for us, but you could probably get away with 12″-13″.
  2. Use a palm sander to sand your pieces of wood and wipe them down
  3. Stained with my choice of stain (mine is Early American).
  4. After drying, I attached these low-profile modern looking black clips from Etsy in the center across the tops.
  5. To avoid holes in the wood itself, I used 3M Command Strips on the back to hang them on the wall. They haven’t budged a bit!
Low profile black clipboard clips

I included these DIY wood clipboards as a part of our gallery wall in our dining room and I love the life the kiddos artwork brings to this space! For more gallery wall ideas, check out this post :)!

Gallery wall featuring DIY wood clipboards

And, as a total aside, if you are a Star Wars fan and enjoy bad lip reading, you’ll further understand the “Yoda Best Daddy” artwork featured above (lower left clipboard artwork) with the below video :)!. Check it out if you want a good laugh!

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Hi, my name is Brenna and I love creative, budget-friendly home decor, all things IKEA, fun kids activities and experiments and playing games with my family! Here you'll find lots of DIY projects, IKEA hacks, and kid stuff :). Thanks so much for hanging out with me here at Happy Joyful Home! More about me...

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