What To Do With String, Board, Nails, and Time?

I'm sure you've asked yourself that very same question. Or probably not. Either way, wrangle up those four things: string, a board, some nails and an hour.

Print out (or use your fancy-shmancy Silhouette while I sit over here, jealous) the name of the child in your house who was in the least amount of trouble today.

OK, so this was the child in the most trouble at my house, but his name was the shortest and I wasn't sure how this would work out.  Next, tape the name onto a board of your choice. I had scrap board from a previous project that was painted white, so I went with that.  Grab yourself a hammer and start nailing the outline of the name, like so:

The more nails you put in to outline the letters, the better.  If your hand starts cramping up, recruit a strong-armed fellow to finish it up for you:

Grab your string and take the paper off the nails.  Keep the paper for a reference because the nails start to seem like one of those 3D pictures and what was originally a name now looks like the constellation of Orion.

Tie your string to one of the nails and make sure it's secure.  Start winding the string around the nails to make the shape of the letter.  I found it best to do the outline of the letter first and then go through the middle.  You need to make straight lines with the string so it fills in the letter pretty well, like so:

Keep working until you're happy with the letter, and then move on to the next.  What do you get for all your hard, stringy work?

You most likely have all of these materials lying around your house... and let's be honest: would you rather do a cute project for an hour, or housework? That's what I thought! Have fun!

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