Wood Slice Craft Ideas: Wood Slice Placemat

If you are looking for new wood slice craft ideas, then you’ll love this wood slice placemat tutorial!

I’ll admit that my personality really fits this rustic decor trend! I’m a country girl at heart that loves a rustic or cabin feel to any room. My basement is Adirondack themed and this placemat is on one of our side tables.  I actually copied this idea because I saw one of these placemats in a cabin we rented for our anniversary from thequietplace.com.

Materials needed for this wood slice craft idea: 

• Wood Slices for DIY Crafts Wedding Decor (you may need 2 packages of this size to get enough smaller slabs to fill your mat)
• 2.5″-2.8″ Unfinished Natural Wood Slices 
• 8X12 piece of felt
• Hot glue gun
• Chop or Miter saw
• Cabin Style Photo frame (I found mine on clearance at Walmart)

What Can I make out of wood slices?

There are hundreds of ideas on the internet.  Most commonnly I find ornaments, lazy susans, magnets, wood burning designs on the wood slices, small side tables for big slices, tea light candle holders, placemats (that I’m going to show you today) and so much more!

Instructions for This Small Wood Slice Placemat Tutorial:

1.  Start by taking your larger 2.5-2.8″ wood slice sizes and cutting them in half.  I used a chop saw for this.  (well actually, I don’t trust myself and my husband  sawed these for me.)

How Do You Prepare Wood Slices For Crafts?

2.  You will use these bigger pieces as your border.  You need to cut a few of the halves also in half to create quarter size pieces.  Those will be used for the 4 corner pieces.

3.  Next, lay out all of your border pieces first before you glue.  You will have to move pieces around a bit like a puzzle to make sure the wood slice halves all fit just right and you may go over the edge a bit off of the felt.  The wood pieces can hang over the felt a bit, just as long as there is a bit of felt to glue the slab on.  You won’t need much hot glue on each piece to stick – just a dab or two on each piece is enough.

4.  I used the color green for my felt, but honestly, I wish I had gray or brown so that it would blend better with the wood.  If you have a color in your room you want to bring out a bit, then go ahead and use that!

5.  The next step requires more piecing together of a puzzle so to speak, gluing on smaller wood slice pieces into the center until it fits.  Again, I recommend placing and arranging a few down at a time before gluing them to be sure it fits correctly.

I wish the bag of Wood Slices for DIY Crafts Wedding Decor came with a few more really small slices, like less than a 1.5 cm, to make filling in the smaller places a bit easier.  I ended up purchasing two bags of these so that I could get enough of the smaller sizes (the sizes vary in each bag from 1.5 – 3 cm) to fill in the smaller spaces.

It’s a great feeling when you get all of the pieces to fit just right and they are each glued in place.  This is a fun and relaxing rainy afternoon kind of craft that brings a bit more of nature into the home!

I love my “cabin” style photo frame that I’m placing my wood slab mat under.  They go together beautifully and look great in my rustic, cabin-style family room!

Looking for more rustic decor DIY ideas?  Check these out:

Easy DIY Wood Slab & Pebble Photo Frame

Shabby Chic Display Shelf Makeover

Upcycle a Spaghetti Sauce Jar Into This Adorable Decor

How to Make Mason Jar Wall Sconces

Mason Jar Vase With Puffy Paint Flourishes

Wood Christmas Tree Crafts – wood slice ornament

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