Transform a basic dollar store cutting board with a few simple craft supplies and make this Christmas chalkboard cutting board with buffalo check ribbon and holiday bells.
Christmas chalkboard cutting board
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You can find all sorts of kitchen supplies and gadgets at a dollar store, and I especially love these little plastic cutting boards. They are fantastic for crafting! Grab a $1 cutting board and some chalkboard paint… the crafting and DIY possibilities are just about endless.
Supplies Needed for this Christmas craft:
- dollar store plastic cutting board
- masking tape
- chalkboard paint
- paint brush
- chalk pen
- ribbon
- twine
- dollar store jingle bells
- chalk paint in elephant
Video Tutorial – Christmas Chalkboard
Just watch this quick tutorial below to make this cutting board and two other Christmas kitchen crafts:
Can’t watch the video or missed some of the steps? Follow along below for the full set of instructions.
Dollar Store Christmas Cutting Board
Materials
- dollar store plastic cutting board
- masking tape
- chalkboard paint
- paint brush
- chalk pen - or a white paint pen would work
- holiday ribbon
- twine
- dollar store jingle bells
- Waverly chalk paint in "elephant"
Instructions
- Remove the plastic coating from the cutting board. Use masking tape to tape off around the edges of the cutting board - there's that kind of bridged lip around the edge of the cutting board so just tape off around all the edges.
- Apply a generous coat of black chalkboard paint inside the masking tape lines. Let dry.
- When the chalkboard paint has completely dried, use a white chalk marker to add decorative letters or graphics. I sketched out my deign on a scrap piece of paper to practice and make sure my spacing was even. Then I used that as a template to write on the cutting board.
- If your writing is off-center, you can offset it with a drawing of a tree, heart, star, or even a snowman.
- Next, paint your jungle bells. These metal bells are shiny, so you can "age" them a bit with paint. Using very dry brush with a bit of chalk paint, brush back and forth across the whole surface of each bell. Let dry.
- Secure the jingle bells to the cutting board handle with twine.
- Finish by tying some holiday ribbon into a bow around the cutting board handle.
Notes
If you can't find this exact cutting board at the dollar store, this would look really cute on a small wooden cutting board as well. You can find this shape of cutting board at a variety of big box retail stores.
More Dollar Store Cutting Board Crafts:
Hello Aimee,
I enjoy following you and love the cute ideas you have and the crafts you share. I was looking for a craft I think you did last fall and was not able to find it in your library. I believe you did a wooden pumpkin with chalk paint, it said gather on it and it was adorable. Do you have that available?? Would you repost it? Many thanks.
Monica
Thank you for inspiring crafts.