Wooden Numbers - How to Paint

I got my initials made out of paper mache, but I know painting wood pretty well.

Make sure you use a primer, or a spray paint that has a primer built in. It's amazing how much wood will soak in the color of the paint without a primer. With numbers and initials, it may be easier to spray paint them. Using a brush could leave all kinds of drips if you aren't careful.

You easily could drill a hole, but if your letters/numbers already have a natural loop at the top (Like an O,P,R,B,3,4,8 etc), you could just loop the string or ribbon through that instead. Either way would work just fine

Look up on pinterest! There's ideas on how to do stencils with just tracing with pencil. I think if you go to hobby lobby and get the wooden numbers/letters, and paint those it would look great!

Thank you, Trena! That makes perfect sense.

Thank you, Taylor! We definitely want to paint the wooden numbers and string them for our STDs, we just didnt know what type of paint to use.

I used spray paint for my wood table numbers. I tried to paint them initially with a brush, but it was too time consuming and you could see the brush strokes.

Mrs. M - brush strokes was what I was concerned about. Thanks for the clarification. I'm going to spray paint them

Spray paint