Wooden Letters

• Decorate wooden letters for a special occasion such as a bridal or baby shower, to spell out someone's name for their home or spell out a word of inspiration such as "hope" or "dream" or "believe." You can purchase wooden alphabet letters at craft stores and some large department stores. Paint the letter or glue wrapping paper on it to decorate it. Add embellishments such as stickers, ribbon, buttons or paper flowers.
  
  

Wooden Shadow Crafts

• Purchase a pattern of your choice online and then cut a large piece of wood or medium-density fiberboard to make a shadow figure. These figures are painted black and can typically be seen in smaller towns and out in the country in front of people's homes. Choose patterns such as a cowboy waving his hat or animal like a moose or a buffalo. Transfer the pattern to wood and then use a jigsaw to cut out the figure.
  
  

Whirligigs

• Make a whimsical mini windmill to put out on your lawn. This wooden craft comes with a pattern, paint-by-numbers and assembly instructions and come in sizes ranging from eight inches to four feet high. Delight people driving by with your mallard duck, swan, lobster, sea gull or pink flamingo. Bird figures will have moving parts that spin in the wind.
  
  

Mini Gnome and Door

• Bring a smile to people's faces in your front or back yard with a wooden gnome and a door that is attached to a tree so that it looks like the entryway into the gnome's home. A pattern for both crafts costs only $8.95 and comes with complete instructions. The door measures 10 inches high and the gnome is 12 inches tall. The same company offers many wooden gnome crafts so you could decorate your garden with an entire family of gnomes.