How to Make Gnomes out of Scrap Wood- 2 Ways to Make Wooden Gnomes

Welcome to day three of our craft a day countdown to Christmas. Today we're going to be making wood gnomes and we're going to make them in two different ways. We're going to be using fabric and paint. I'm going to show you quickly how I cut these gnomes but you can order them online as well if you don't want to use a miter saw. So starting with your miter saw set at a 15 degree angle we're going to take a one inch by five inch board and we're going to just cut the end of it off creating half of the triangle and then I'm just going to flip the board over and at the tip of the board where I cut my initial cut I'm just going to cut in the opposite direction and then form a triangle with my board. If you want to make a bigger gnome you can obviously use a bigger board or you switch the board around and use it the other way and then cut multiple cuts with a 15 degree angle still. And then once you're done cutting just go ahead and sand off the edges. So now that we have our triangles we're going to make our hat and we can do this in two different ways with these wood gnomes. We're going to either use fabric or paint so first we're going to start with the fabric. I'm just going to hot glue a triangle of an old sweater that I have and we're going to just glue that on to the top of the wood triangle and I have a little pattern down below if it's helpful to you but you can just cut out a little triangle that's the same shape as your wood triangle and then hot glue that on. Trim off any extra parts of the fabric and then we're going to move on to attaching our fur and our nose and so with your faux fur just always make sure that the fur is going down in the right direction you don't want the fur to be standing up and then if you want to avoid fraying you can rip that instead of cutting it. I find a little more difficult to rip it but you can do it that way and then just hot glue the fur onto the bottom of the triangle and then you have a really good base for your gnome and then the last step is just to take your wooden nose or you can use felt noses or whatever pom-poms and then just hot glue that on the center right underneath where the hat meets the beard I think looks the best and then we're going to just do the second one here quick and we just did it a slightly different color beards we used more of a brown fur there you go there's our gnomes and then the last thing you can do as well is just embellish it so I have all these little beads and embellishments in my craft supply so I think I'm going to take these little snowflakes and just attach those onto the bottom of the hat but you can play around with it and see what you like buttons or other things are pine cones are super cute so do it however you want I'm going to use these snowflakes and buttons on mine just hot glue the embellishments on as a last step and there you go there's our gnomes one quick alternative if you have a little bit larger triangle so these are four inches on the base you could use the hat pattern that I've shared before with the gnome sock gnomes and then just put that onto your wooden triangle and cut off the bottom two to three inches and then you'll have a covering for the wood slice easy peasy and then just do it the same way that we did the other gnomes you just hot glue the hat and kind of fold it under slightly if there's a raw edge like my sweater here and then just do the exact same steps with as we did previously put the faux fur on and then your nose and any embellishments that you want okay so we're going to move on to the second way we can make these wooden gnomes which is by painting our hat on so we're going to use this acrylic paint here and we're just going to go three quarters down from the top and just paint on all three sides of your wooden triangle and this is going to be our hat for our gnome and I used this light blue and then this light brown so once those dry then we're going to move on to attaching our fur like we did with our first set of gnomes and then just use your wooden gnome hot glue that in place and one thing I didn't mention but if you do want to change the color of your nose you can use some antiquing wax and change that to whatever lightness or darkness you want for your skin tone and then you're going to embellish these gnomes again however you want I'm using the snowflakes again and here you go this is a second option for making these I hope you like this video we're going to keep on crafting until Christmas so don't forget to hit the subscribe button so that you can be notified of all new videos thanks again