Ominous Halloween Street Signs DIY
#1: Find some thin slabs of balsa wood in the typical size of a street sign, maybe one that’s a tiny bit smaller and bigger to add variation.
#2: Using a ruler, draw a rough arrow shape on one end and the ends of an arrow on the other. Cut these pieces off with an exacto knife.
#3: Using Halloween-looking fonts, type out the names of the towns you like. mimic the style in pencil (this is a guide, it won’t look exactly like this in the end).
Street name suggestions: Amityville, Salem, Bates Motel, Elm Street, Fleet Street, Transylvania, Crystal Lake, Haunted Highway (look up others!)
#4: With the exacto knife, begin to carve out the letters in the balsa wood. The depth of the carve is entirely up to you!
#5: Using a wide, oil paint brush, stain the signs in a dark wood stain. Don’t attempt to make the stain even - uneven will look much better.
#6: Once the stain dries, using an acrylic paint brush, apply a thin coat of white paint. It will not spread evenly, which is good, so don’t try to even it out by filling in sparse patches. Just dip the paintbrush back into the white paint and add another thin layer. Make sure you can still see the stain through the white paint.
#7: When the white paint dries, sand off some of it using sandpaper (very faint grit, I think mine was 120).
#8: Using a brown (almost black) paint, paint the carved-out letters to make them more legible.
#9: If you want, you can cut up the edges and make it look old and damaged. The same could be said for burning the edges.
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