How to Make a DIY Growth Chart
My son turned one in February and we wanted a way to commemorate his first birthday. I ended up making this super easy DIY growth chart, so we can track his growth and progress every year.
It ended up taking me about 20 minutes and $20 to create this personalized decor for his nursery.
I purchased a wood board from the hardware store for my DIY growth chart. I also grabbed permanent markers, larger stickers, a speed square, and command strips.
The measuring and marking is the hardest part of this project, and even that is pretty easy. The first thing you’ll need to do is figure out where you want to hang the board on the wall and mark where the 1-foot mark lands on the board in that position. Then from there, mark the entire board in one-inch increments, making sure you keep tabs of where you marked the one-foot point. I used a pencil first, so I could get everything perfect before coming in with a permanent marker.
This blog post has more tips on drawing the lines perfectly, so head there for the step-by-step to walk you through the length of each line. Once my lines were good, I used a permanent marker to make them darker and added large stickers from the craft store for each foot marker.
I ended up hanging mine with command strips, so it's very secure and safe up on the wall.
I'm obsessed with this simple craft and love how it looks in my son's nursery. Now I just have to remember to mark his height every year and we'll have a keepsake that we can take with us if we ever move.
For more pictures and step-by-step instructions, head to the full blog post.
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