Homemade Gift Kids Can Make: Engraved Wood Lamp Base

Looking for a unique and homemade gift for the kids to make? This engraved Wood Plate Charger is an elegant, stylish, and extremely useful gift that anyone can make for very little money. Kids can personalize a lamp for Mom or Dad to use in their home office or even in their bedroom.

You should buy a nice Wood Plate Charger that you think is appropriate for about $17 or less. Check out the wood working aisle at Michael's Arts and crafts and save up those 40% off coupons!

You can also buy the wood-burning tool at Michaels for about $8 with about 8 tips.

To Make an Engraved Wood Plate Charger for a Hostess gift you will need:

1 Nice Wood Plate Charger (Unfinished wood if possible)

Wood Burning Tool

White computer paper

Pencil or pen

Sheet of Graphite

Letters or Images

Wood burning tool tips

The first step is to choose a nice Wood Plate Charger. Look for a Wood Plate Charger that has a lot of flat surface on the front of it, possibly a wide trim or border for lots of engraving. If you cannot find one, then try building a simple wood box to fit around an existing lamp base. Slide it over the outdated lamp and no one will know!

Now, once you have bought your Wood lamp base you can determine what design or words you want to engrave with your wood-burning tool.

Now, you can do anything from simple words to a more difficult image. The trick is to transfer it to your Unfinished Wood lamp base.

Whatever image or words you chose to engrave on the lamp you can use a sheet of graphite to transfer the design to your Unfinished Wood lamp base.

Take your Unfinished Wood lamp base and lay it out on a sheet of white paper. Trace the Wood lamp with a pencil. Now, you can create your designs inside of this plate charger shape you traced.

If you want you can make words, monograms, the date, the year, or even names.

Now, Simply lay the sheet of graphite down first on the Unfinished Wood lamp base, and then lay out your image, words, or whatever on top. Now, use a pen to trace all the needed lines, edges, and details.