Kiddos artwork display board for my dining room!

I have a stainless steel fridge, which limits the amount of my kiddos artwork

I can display on there. I use the double sided sticky things from Scotch which I love, but I only use a few...

I also have a corkboard in their toy/schoolroom that I display some artwork too!

But I have been wanting something to display in my dining room.

Something cute, and fun, that matches the colors!

I really love all kinds of colors, so choosing is a bit hard.

But my dining room is yellow, and possibly soon to be orange!

So this is what I came up with..

board from hobby lobby: $3.50 (1/2 off)

letters $.50 a piece, (they were also 1/2 off)

scrapbook paper $.59 a piece

The glue, paint, & mod podge I already had.

So about a $7 project!! :) I love being frugal!

I painted the edges of the board, didn't have to be neat!

While that was drying I painted my letters a pretty orange!

I just mixed red & yellow together to get the shade I wanted.

Here are the letters after painting!

Then I took some brown and white paint and covered up the green,

then sanded it a bit.

I love the banged up/distressed look on things.

This was the difficult part! Setting the paper just right on the board.

Then I went to town with the mod podge!
Then I cut out little pieces of paper the same size as the clothespin, and

mod-podged those on! SO fun!

Then I used a ruler to line all of the clothespins up just right...

Next was gluing the letters on! Yay gorilla glue!

Here's the finished product! Sooo cute! i love it!

And here it is in my dining room, being put to good use! I love it!

And I love having the kiddos artwork to look at and talk about

while we eat dinner together. :)

Love it!