• Collect up lots of small pieces of driftwood. Look for rocks and shells with small holes in them as well.

  Clean off the wood. Soak in bleach solution to clean and whiten if desired. See tips section.

Driftwood wall art project

• To make the driftwood heart art piece you only need pieces of driftwood. Cut your desired shape out of cardboard. You will be able to see this cardboard between the pieces of wood so paint it to the color you would like to see coming through. Light blue, sage, green, or pink would be good choices.

  Glue your small pieces of driftwood to the front of this cardboard using tacky glue or hot glue. Cover the entire surface with wood, trying to match the edges of the cardboard with the edges of the driftwood pieces. You may need to break some pieces of driftwood to fit in certain spots.

Driftwood garland or mobile

• For the garland or mobile use acrylic craft paints to paint 48 beads in the color(s) that you want (i.e.-12 beads painted in four different colors). Set these aside to dry.

  Break some of your pieces of driftwood down into smaller sizes if they are larger than about 3 inches long. I used a hand clipper to do this that I typically use for yardwork. Use a small drill bit in an electric hand drill to drill a small hole in the center of each of the small pieces of driftwood.

  String your driftwood pieces and beads onto a lightweight wire, string, or fishing line. I used a pattern of stringing two or three pieces of wood then one bead (and alternated the colorful beads).
• If you are making a garland, then you will just string these in one long string and tie them off on either end. Make a loop on each end to hang up your garland.
• If you are making a mobile such as you see in the picture on this post, you will need three strings of wood and beads. My three were about 24 inches long, 18 inches long, and 12 inches long. Make your strands and tie each off at the bottom of each strand.

  Then attach them to one larger piece of driftwood at the top and let them hang down. You will use another piece of wire or fishing line to make a hanger on the top, attaching it to both ends of the driftwood hanging piece.

Driftwood art picture

• The Driftwood owl picture takes one large, flatter piece of driftwood or reclaimed wood. Find two or three flat oval stones that can be painted to be owls. Use your acrylic craft paint to paint on a triangle beak and either use googly eyes or paint on two eyes above the beak.

  Glue two small pieces of driftwood to be branches (horizontally on your piece of driftwood). Glue the two stones above them as if the birds are sitting on branches. You can add more owls if you want.