Confession time:
I am not a keeper of baby hair, baby teeth…really anything that falls off their body. I don’t know why, but I just don’t get much of a warm and fuzzy feeling when I look at a bag of little teeth. Or a tuft of hair taped to a piece of paper.
I love my children, and I would die for them a thousand times…but I guess you can call me Scrooge McMommy when it comes to saving the parts of their body that they’ve outgrown.
On the other hand, however, I am super cheesy when it comes to things like saving, preserving, categorizing, organizing, filing, laminating, displaying, framing and loving all of their artwork. I cherish every doodle, every scribble, every craft that they’ve ever done.
I also am quite fond of measuring and marking their height every year, starting when they turn one.
This brings me to today’s post…I have come up with a creative and pretty way to display your child’s height without marking on your actual doorframe. (I totally love the doorframe height markings…I just want to bring it with me if we ever move.)
I have made two of these height charts for our home – a boy one and a girl one.
The boy height chart is painted a mint-y green. At the top, painted in brown letters against a white background, are the words “…and the righteous shall flourish…”. It has a brown and gold scarf tacked to the top that hangs the entire thing against the wall.
And every year on their birthdays a new mark is made on the board. I write their name, age, and how tall they are.
The girl chart is painted light gray with black letters against a pink background at the top. The verse says “…our daughters like pillars…”. A pink ribbon is attached to the top, and I also glued on a craft butterfly next to the letters.
I hang both of them in our kitchen, and I think they look really nice. 🙂
Here’s how you make them: (These are the directions for the girl height chart.)
Supplies:
1. 1-1×6 board – Please don’t do what I did and buy the board with the most knots and cracks in it possible.
2. Pink paint, gray paint
3. 1 piece of pink scrapbooking paper with a pretty, light pattern
4. Stick-on scrapbooking letters
5. Brass tacks
6. Decorative butterfly or flower
7. 1 pretty scarf or ribbon
Directions:
1. Paint your board gray
2. Measure off 1 foot on one end of the board. Make a soft pencil line and paint the section pink.
3. Cut out your pink paper to fit on top of the pink paint. Glue on the paper.
4. Place your stick-on letters across the paper. I used part of a verse that I like: “…Our daughters like pillars…” Ps.144:12 I wanted to use a verse that is unique to girls and also makes sense being used on a height chart.
You are going to notice on the following picture that the silver letters that I used are not visible. At all. So either buy black letters, or you’re going to have to do what I did…which was go in with a black sharpie and color in every letter. This is the second time I’m telling you to not do it my way. 🙂
The next picture shows you how it looks with the letters colored in with a sharpie…much better! 🙂
5. All that’s left to do is put on the finishing touches! I used some brass tacks to attach a pink ribbon on the top, and I hot glued on one crafty butterfly.
Pretty!
Now all I need is a cute little one-year old girl to measure! (Just a couple more weeks until our Mae gets her first mark on her very own height chart. 🙂 )
I like knowing that no matter where we live, our children’s height measurements will come with us. 🙂 Does that sentence sound totally ridiculous? I don’t even care…I love height charts!
Let me know if you try this out, or if you have any other variations you would like to share. I, for one, would love to hear. 🙂
