DIY Christmas Wood Star

This post is part of a series entitled “12 DIYs of Christmas”. You can see all the projects and post in this series here.

For the 10th DIY of Christmas, I created a DIY wood star!

This was very easy and inexpensive to make. Here’s the supplies you will need:

Five – 5 gallon paint sticks – Home Depot sells these for $0.98 for a pack of 3
paint or stain of your choice
wood glue
saw or snips to cut sticks

I cut off the curved handle ends of the paint sticks to create straight sticks. Then lay out in a star arrangement – you’ll have to play with it a little to get all the ends straight.

Then secure all the tips and where the sticks meet with wood glue. I ended up putting some paint cans and heavy objects on top of it overnight for it to dry.

Now, this is where you can do what I say, not what I did… I think it would be easier to paint or stain before you glue instead of after the star is all assembled. I already had mine assembled so it was a bit more of a challenge to paint all the little sections and edges. I used some Decoart Chalky Finish white paint for mine.

Once it was dry, I sanded/distressed the edges and then brushed on some DecoArt dark wax and rubbed it right off. I just wanted to create a bit of a distressed/antiqued look.

And here it is! I want to show you several ways in which you could use this star. I honestly love them all – maybe I just need to make some more stars If you needed a tree topper this would be a super cheap and easy DIY tree topper – cost less than $2 if you already have paint + glue.

Since the paint sticks are wood, you could stain them and have a stained wood tree topper star too.

Or you can just use in a display someplace…

I think it would look better on a solid door but it would be pretty used as a door hanger too.

Another place I could prop it up and use it

And one more idea.

And I know I keep showing you stuff hung on my chalkboard… I may just have to change out my chalkboard decor each day until Christmas. I love everything I have hung on it!

So many ways and places you could use a simple wood star. You could make varying sizes too by using the smaller paint sticks for a smaller star, or not cutting off the curved handle to make an even bigger star. I have really enjoyed using these 98¢ packs of wood paint sticks – you’ll actually seem them for the last 3 projects of this series They are a cheap, easy way to do wood projects.