DIY Wooden Letter Cubes

While doing some rearrangement on my craft materials lately, I found a few packs of 1-inch unfinished wooden cube blocks deep inside my cabinet. I recalled that I bought these blocks for the intention to make the Dice Game where PaperAndPea guest posted the DIY tutorial at Craft Passion 2 years ago. Oh gosh, I really have lots of treasures hiding inside my craft room hahaha.

My to-do list is way too long to keep up with my pace, now my kids are too big for the dice game, I have to turn these blocks idea to another DIY craft. Here it is, the DIY Wooden Letter Cubes in Winter holiday and Christmas Theme.

This little wooden letter cubes block set looks great as a decorative item for your home. Besides letting the letter cubes sitting in the same place, you may also turn them into a game. Give a list of words to the player and let he/she finds the letters from the blocks to assemble. Time the progress and the fastest player to complete the task wins the game. 😉

This is an easy craft and bigger kids can do it on their own, younger kids might need some bits of help from an adult when dealing with cutting. The set of this letter cubes is a combination of 24 blocks with letters up to 6 sides of the cube but you may opt to not using all the 6 sides. You may plan your own set of words or use the suggested words for Winter Christmas theme, such as:

Let It Snow
Merry Christmas
Joy Love Peace Kisses
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Season Greetings
Gifts Presents Holiday Hugs
Cold Snow Warm Sweaters
If Kisses Were Snowflakes
Drink Cocoa Be Happy
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Hello December
Keep On Dreaming

On top of lettering the cube blocks, you may also design them into a snowman or other characters, such as Mickey Mouse, Robots, Monster, Minions, etc. Mix and match the blocks to turn the character into something different. The kids will have lots of fun, giggling with all the funny matching they can make. Here are my snowmen and it seems like they are melting.

Who doesn’t love this? *** Santa Claus Is Coming To Town *** I am sure kids love to see this, even adults love it too hahaha.

How about Snowman and Merry Christmas?

There are many other words you can put up, adapt it for other occasions and celebrations, the possibilities are endless.

DIY Wooden Letter Cubes

Difficulty: Easy

Materials & Tools:
1. Printed Scrap Booking paper, Winter theme
2. Decoupage (Mod Podge) or Craft Glue
3. Sponge brushes
4. Craft knife or X-Acto
5. 24 pcs. of 1-inch unfinished blocks
6. Sand Paper
7. Distress ink, tea dye color
8. Alphabet Stencil, large
9. Black marker, Sharpie

Gather all the materials and tools as listed above.
I am using Winter theme scrapbooking printed paper but you can use other design to make the letter cubes for other occasions.

Brush a layer of Mod Podge or craft glue onto 1 side of the cube. Cover the 4 corners and edges with glue to make sure the paper will not peel off from the edges.

Adhere the block to the wrong side of the scrapbooking paper.
Press it for a while and leave it for about 5 minutes to make sure the adhesion is safe to proceed. While waiting, you may work on other blocks.

Cut the paper around the cube with a craft knife, place the blade as near as possible to the cube so that you can cut along the edges.

Repeat the gluing and cutting for all the 6 sides of the block. Leave it aside for the glue to dry completely. Once you have finished all 24 blocks, the first block is safe to proceed to the next process.

Trim the edges of the block with a craft knife by slicing it vertically.

Repeat to all the blocks. Do not worry if they don’t look even by now.

Sand the edges and corners on the sandpaper to distress the edges and corners.
Remark: Make sure the glue has dried before proceeding to this step.

Dab the distress ink with a sponge. Then brush lightly on the edges and corners of the cube.

Trace the letter of the alphabet onto the cube with a black marker.
You may use up all the 6 sides of the cube which will give you a total of 144 sides to write on the 24 cube blocks.

Plan out the words and design you want to make up with the blocks. I made them into a few sets of words and 2 snowmen.
For Winter and Christmas theme, you can choose the following words:
Let It Snow
Merry Christmas
Joy Love Peace Kisses
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Season Greetings
Gifts Presents Holiday Hugs
Cold Snow Warm Sweaters
If Kisses Were Snowflakes
Drink Cocoa Be Happy
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Hello December
Keep On Dreaming

Besides assembling the blocks as decorative items for your home, you may use them as a game. Give a list of words to the player and let them find the letters from the blocks to assemble. The fastest player to complete the task wins the game.

Be it stack-up and just line-up, love it so much 🙂