Basic DIY Palm Tree Craft Supplies

Palm tree related crafts will nearly always use certain supplies over and over again.

Other Supplies will be used often enough. It will be good to keep certain supplies around.

A Small Desk With Storage also could be useful for your supplies. The top surface can be a good workspace.

YOUR HANDY SUPPLIES

Keep-on-hand suggestions:

• Measuring: Tape-measure, Yardstick, & 12in/30.48cm Straight Edge Ruler.
• Small notebook (noting lists & ideas).
• Watercolor and/or Acrylic Paints & assorted brushes.
• Plaster of Paris can be handy.
• Scissors: several different sizes/types, Crafting Knife & Snips/Wire-Cutters.

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DIY Palm Tree Craft Ideas

There are many DIY Palm Tree Craft ideas. Here are several...

Craft an Antique Palm Scene Artwork

Fabulous in a suitable Old-Timey Frame for hanging.

Supplies Needed

Steps for Making Your Palm Artwork

Read these before beginning, so your plan is in mind.

Decide on artwork you'll use From the Magazine. Cover your working surface in old newspapers.

• Carefully remove the magazine image with the Scissors, or (Recommended) Craft Knife. Use the Ruler's Straight Edge for Cutting Straight/Even sides.

Be Careful With These Artwork Craft Steps

• Pour the dark coffee/tea liquid you're using into the sheet pan.
• Dip the artwork into the liquid. Be sure it gets fully coated. But not overly soggy so it falls apart!
• Carefully take the artwork out. Laying it flat onto the newspapers. Be sure it's flat. 
• Then put Paperweights barely onto the corners.

Finishing Up Your Palm Art Project

• Suck up liquid with pipettes. Leaving a few small puddles in the artwork. Then gently make lines with a pipette filled with liquid across the art, simulating cracks. Helps it look authentic.
• Once dry, evaluate its look. Use the spray bottle to apply more "antiquing" liquid to it. Several times, if needed.
• When you're happy with the look, let it completely dry. Then be sure there's no wrinkling or curling by covering it for 24-48 hours with heavy books.

It should be all Ready For Framing!

Making a Palm Leaf Mat

As a kid, were you ever gifted one of those Pot-Holder Making Kits? I remember when getting one when I was a kid. The same weaving method is used For Palm Fronds.

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How to Make Palm Tree Accessories

There are multiple ideas for DIY Palm Tree Crafts. We've got several more...

Make a Bronze Palm Tree Sculpture

Advance Planning Tip for choosing a fake palm: You'll be attaching the palm to the base made from the container lid.

Prep for this Fake Palm Sculpture Craft

• With strong household gel glue, attach the plastic palm's bottom onto the container lid.
• You want the plastic palm base to adhere well. It needs to be able to securely stay upright without problems.

• Be sure it's dry, then open the white glue. Smear it over the palm, giving it texture. Especially trunk areas & along the base. Thickly where the palm attaches to the base. When dry it should have a sculpted look.

Your Palm Sculpture's Finishing Touches

Give the glue plenty of time to dry. Then spray it all over with Dark Brown Spray Paint. Let that fully dry.

Have the water spray bottle & Silver-Metallic Spray Paint ready.

• First, spray all over with water. 
• Then immediately spray it with the silver-metallic paint. 
• Let all this fully dry.

Now find a place in your home decor for this bronzed palm artwork creation!

Craft a Palm Styled Desk Set

Supplies for a Palm-Themed Desk Set

• Blank copy/printer paper or white wrapping paper for drawing a template
• Gold Spray Paint
• White glue
• Pencil
• Ruler/straight-edge
• Scissors 
• Palm Tree Stickers and/or Palm Charms for added tropical flavor.

More Needed Craft Prep Items

• The swanky style comes from Ultrasuede, get the color of your choice.
• A Length of Ribbon in a complementary color or design.
• Your own Drawing of a Palm Frond.
• Containers to make the set's basis. New from a dollar/craft store or recycle those from around the house. Adjust per your own needs/wants.

1. For instance a soup-can could be the pencil/pen holder. A small box could be reused as a holder for supplies like paper clips, etc.

Steps for a Template for the Ultrasuede

Make templates for cutting your Ultrasuede.

Wrap paper around the container, cutting it down to near the size for easier working. Then get more specific & exact. 

• Wrap the paper around the container, fitting it at the bottom. If there's already a full label on a can, for example, that can be the template. Remove it carefully.
• Mark the top in 3 places. Mark where it overlaps for the length. 
• Take it off to draw lines with the straight edge, using the marks as your guide. 
• Trim along the lines to finish the template.

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Crafts With Palm Leaves

Step by Step Crafting a Palm Tree Switchplate

Remember to begin by protecting your work space.

• Decide on your art & trace it to size by using the switch plate as a pattern.

1. Remember, there's a rectangular middle area for the switch. Check for it interrupting the art.  Consider that for your placement.

• At each of the picture corners, make a 3/8" cut inward toward the center.

1. This enables the artwork corners to flatten over the arced switch plate corners.

Attaching Artwork to a Palm Switchplate

• Spray the palm frond art's backside with spray adhesive. Then carefully & evenly from the center outward, place the art over the switch plate. Smooth each of the sides downward to be sure they stick.
• Turn the plate over. Use your craft knife to cut an "X" into the back of the art, through the rectangular opening in the switch plate. That makes 4 triangles you'll fold to the plate back.

1. Place a drop of white glue onto a triangle, smear it around. Fold it inward to stick onto the back of the switch plate. Do that with each triangle.

Finishing touches for Your Palm Switchplate

• Hold the plate up to the light looking at the front to find the screw holes, often above & below the switch rectangle. Use the craft knife to make an "X" into each, from the front. Push the screwdriver through the hole to push these triangles toward the back. 

1. Instead, a sharpened pencil can also be used to push through.

• Place the switch plate on your protected surface, right side up. Spray-coat it evenly with the Spray Acrylic Clear Coating. Wait at least 10 minutes for drying, then spray it again. Then do that process once more time.

Now it's ready for choosing the room you want to emphasize your Palm Tree Home Decor. And placing it there as a switch plate to light up your palmy energy! It will be a notable DIY Palm Tree craft your friends may imitate!

Palm Styled Writing Pen

When writing, keep in tune with your palmy lifestyle by using your own pens with a palm leaf top!

Making a Palm Styled Writing Pen

Read the directions first. To help determine purchasing needs for this DIY palm tree craft.

Supplies:

• Ballpoint Pens (capped, non-click)
• Artificial Palm Fronds with thin/wire stems
• Floral Tape
• Wire cutters & scissors
• A ruler

First Check the Overview for This Craft

• How long do you want the stems from the palm fronds to the pen to be?
• You could make them variable if you're doing several pens.

1. Don't make them too long, though - as writing with the pen could become unwieldy.

• With your above decision, now add 2in/51mm to the length of the palm stem you determined from the 1st step. 

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DIY Palm Tree Crafts for Holidays

Craft for Palm Sunday

Supplies for This Palm Sunday Craft

• Vintage Palm Sunday artwork print, like from a Picture Book Like This>
• Acrylic Paints
• White glue (try decoupage paste) & Spray Adhesive
• Small paintbrushes

ARTWORK BACKING

• Also a Flat Backing for the Artwork:

1. Sized approximately 11inX14in/27.94X35.56cm. Smaller if need be. You'll want the backing larger than your print-out art.
2. Use wood, metal, or plastic.
3. Save on your budget. Look for cutting boards, used items, leftover wood cuttings from hardware/home stores, dollar store pieces, etc.

• Attach your art print-out, centered, to your backing with the spray adhesive.
• Using gold acrylic paint, brush it over the edges of the art & onto the backing. The gold edges of each side can be a bit ragged.
• With a paper towel, smear red acrylic paint on the outer edges of the art's backing. Blend it into the gold. It should be a ragged blending where the two colors meet.

Artwork Finishing Touches

To Liven Up the Painting

• Use a color like those in the art to lightly spruce up any dark areas. A few little light brush strokes in the background, etc.

1. If it's a line drawing, older youth can get creative with a few colors added to inside edges, like shading.

• Once all the paint is totally dry, get the white glue or decoupage paste. Cover the entire image & backing with this. This will style it with texturing, plus seal it all. 

1. When dry, it can be framed or hung as is, depending on the type of backing used.

Christmas Palm Tree

There are multiple ways to create a Christmas palm tree. Here are some ideas for your family members...

Hang Snowflakes on Your Palm

Steps:

• Take a small plate for tracing a circle on white construction paper. 
• Fold the circle in half, then 1/3 inward, & on the other side another third inward. Now fold that in half.
• On both sides, cut out chunks into the paper. Cut out little triangles or wedges, some small rectangles & half-circles.

SEE & USE YOUR DIY PALM TREE CRAFT!

• Open it up to see the whole snowflake. 
• With the scissor point, poke a hole into one area, about one inch from the flake's edge. Cut lengths of white thread or yarn & put through for hanging.
• Using it outdoors? Spray the acrylic coating on both sides of the snowflake for weather protection.

Do you have an Indoor Potted Palm on which you can hang a few snowflakes?

Or a Palm Tree Type outdoors, with a rough trunk on which you can loop the yarn?

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Takeaways for DIY Palm Tree Craft

We hope some of these craft projects worked well for you. That some were perfect as a DIY Palm Tree Craft for kids. And at least most were easy DIY palm tree crafts.

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