Monogram Marquee Sign!

 Monogram Marquee Sign! Easy and cheap! Great for kids crafts!  First you will need to take a trip to the Dollar Store! (I picked Dollar Tree) I found a string of 10 LED Colored Flower lights! A pack of AA batteries and 1 sheet of black foam core board. (spent $3)  The lights only need 2 batteries...so I have 6 for later.  I used scrap paper and cut out an "S". (Letters like A B E F H K R X Y are hard to do with  a single strand of lights...so take that into consideration)  I used my hot knife...basically a wood burner with an x-acto knife tip to cut the foam core. This works great!  Unfortunately I creased the board accidentally...oh well.  I measured out 10 holes...making sure I didn't stretch the LED string too far between bulbs. Then used a pen to poke holes through the foam core.  The plastic flowers easily come off the LED bulb.  So you can string the lights and push the bulb through  t...

DIY Solar Power Vintage Arrow Light Up Marquee!

This was a super fun project to do with my  11 year old scout in just a few hours!  Do-it-yourself Marquee sign! Nothing quite as awesome as a vintage style arrow in comic book red!  I wanted to do a marquee sign for a long time... but didn't want a sign I had to plug in...find wall space for... or deal with cords and plugs. Then I discovered Solar Power lights!  Yay! So that was my only cost in this project, about $20. You could use Christmas lights...or other string lights.  We started with a scrap piece of plywood we found on the street. It was about a foot and a half tall and 4 feet wide...  I used some kraft paper and cut it to fit the board... I folded it in half and then sketched out my pattern. I cut it while it was folded so it would be symmetrical!  like this!  Then traced the arrow pattern onto the board.  like so!  Then my son used the dremel and we began cutting it out... ...