How can I decorate the home address numbers on my mailbox?

Hey Brenda! I would use stencils and a bright chalk based paint! Use a spray poly to seal. Waverly's brand of chalky paint will work great and can be easily purchased at Walmart. You can also add a little metallic paint to make it shine more.

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Spray paint with a stencil.

Hi Brenda, I'm not sure what type of mailbox you have but you can by decorative mailbox covers online. There are some gorgeous ones on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mailbox+covers&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 You can also buy wooden number cut outs and spray paint them in a metallic color and glue on a few faux gems with E6000 glue. It's waterproof so it will hold up.

I might start with glow in the dark paint. Just make sure the numbers are both visible and clear to read. After that, I would decorate for the seasons. When we lived in a rural area, I always painted the post or pole that held the mailbox white then glow in the dark paint. The mailboxes were rounded at the top, and large, and I went all out, as did several of my friends and neighbors, to make my mailbox really stand out on our country roads. So what did I do? One year I went with seasons and holidays. This was in Louisiana, where snow was seldom seen on the ground.

January: I pulled a skinny bare branch from the woods and painted it white. I “planted” the branch in a bucket of rocks and stood it at the back end of the mailbox. I cut snowflakes from styrofoam meat trays, and glued on lots of glitter. I liked the glitter so much that I added glitter to parts of the branch. I added a snowflake to the lid of the mailbox and that was it for Jan.

In Feb., I kept the branch, but changed the snowflakes for big red Valentine hearts with red glitter. I found a cardboard Cupid, added a strip of plain cardboard to the back to add stability. The Cupid sat on top of the mailbox until the rain got it, but the mailbox was so cute.

March—shamrocks and a green felt leprechaun hat on the mailbox. I painted several rocks green and put them around the post holding the mailbox.

April—Easter eggs on the branch (which I replaced since the old branch was falling apart, but the woods was full of branches. )

May— tons of artificial flowers, red and white for Mothers Day.

June—even more flowers, added a morning glory vine down the post, touched up the glow in the dark paint on the numbers. Since our church was hosting three weddings that month, I bought a plastic cake topper, bride and groom, of course, and had a net veil flowing from the bride’s head for six feet out from the mailbox.

July—red, white, and blue flowers on the branch and mailbox, and a real U. S. flag flowing from the branch. I left the flag up through Flag Day

Aug—our family’s birthday month, so I decorated the whole mailbox as a birthday cake.

Sept. —a schoolbus mailbox, plus some Labor Day flags.

Oct—happy Halloween decorations like a scarecrow and smiling jack-o’lanterns.

Nov—Thanksgiving all the way, a pile of pumpkins on the ground, a Pilgrim Barbie knockoff on the box, oversized styrofoam autumn leaves on the branch.

Dec—Santa on the mailbox with a strand of reindeer going up the branch, gift wrapped rocks and boxes on the ground, some snowflakes. By the way, the next month we had a water pipe to burst and we were doing repairs on the house so I didn’t decorate the mailbox. I had phone calls, inquiries at church, and even a few people we didn’t know to stop by to see if we were okay, since obviously something had changed. We moved a few months later so I haven’t had a chance to do the same thing again yet, but I am getting motivated to do what I can in my big city suburb. But I would encourage you to do something similar. Even putting a sticker on an apartment house mailbox might brighten someone’s day—maybe yours. Jewell