Although I don’t typically decorate for Valentine’s Day, this year I couldn’t resist a little craft project to celebrate the holiday. After all, it is about love and chocolate and who can resist love and chocolate? Instead of the usual craft creating something heart shaped, I decided to pay a little attention to Cupid and his arrows. I put together these easy DIY wooden arrows and now I’m going to show you how you can make one too!
This project is really easy, and totally customizable so you don’t have to be exact with your measurements. Feel free to be a little more free style. You can paint it {or not}, just about any color you’d like.
Materials
- Wooden Shims
- Wood Glue
- Miter Saw (or a hand saw and miter box)
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Spray paint, craft or wall paint or wood stain {optional if you will paint/stain it}
- Frame for framing {optional}
Instructions
1. First select some nice wood shims to use. Make a rough representation of what you’d like your arrow to look like.
This was a rough image of what I came up with. Two shims for the point and a few more for the tail. 
2. Start cutting your arrow and tail parts. You can cut the pieces like the arrow on the right or left, shown below. Either way you’ll need some pieces with a 45 degree angle. That’s where your miter saw comes in. See Brittany’s post about how to use a miter saw here. It’s one of the first power tools I learned to use and is very easy to handle and work with.
3. To cut the 45 degree angles, first set your saw at the 45 degree mark. Then cut one end of the wooden shim to 45 degrees.
