If you love the sounds of chimes blowing in the wind. Learn how to make a driftwood wind chime in 5 easy steps.
How To Make a Driftwood Wind Chime:
Driftwood is one of those pieces of beauty. Each piece is unique and if you think about how it was created, it’s just amazing. A fallen tree goes from water to sand to drifting around. Since I love walking around on the beaches and near the rivers I have collected many pieces of driftwood of all different sizes. So I had enough pieces to create a driftwood wind chime.
Supplies
- Driftwood
- Strong Hemp String
- Drill( The Dremel is also a great tool to drill a hole)
- Screw hook
- 2 small screws
How To Assemble Driftwood Wind Chime:
Step 1: Gather The Driftwood
Gather all the driftwood you have and make sure they are odd shaped pieces of driftwood. They look best when grouping them. Don’t try to organize them. They need to look uneven when you hang it
Step 2: Drill Hole
Take each driftwood piece and drill a hole in the middle. The driftwood is pretty hard so I used a 1/8 inch drill bit and that created a hole big enough to pass the rope through.
Step 3: Stringing the driftwood
Take a small screw and tie it first before you start threading the rope. It prevents the rope from sliding through the hold. Wet the tip of the rope so it’s easy to pass through the hole. The last piece you need is to tie the second screw at the top and leave at least 5 inches of rope to attach to the screw hook. Use pliers to close the screw hook to avoid the rope from sliding off.
Step 4: Hanging the chime
Screw the hook in the patio ceiling or wherever you are going to hang it. Now you can hang your driftwood chime and it will make pretty sounds in the wind.
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This is so pretty! My daughter and I are heading to the beach Thursday so you know what I’ll be looking for!! :o]
Tania
Thanks, I hope you were able to find some drift wood, sometimes there is nothing on the beaches. You can find them in the sand dunes where the accumulate after the tied goes back in.. Thanks Maria
Love your driftwood chime 🙂 I usually pick up larger pieces of driftwood when I’m at the beach – now I’m going to look for smaller pieces so I can make a chime 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration!
I am happy you stopped by.. I hope you find some smaller Driftwood pieces out and about!
Maria
This is so gorgeous! I love the natural look of the driftwood. Nice job!
Thanks for the nice comment! It was really peaceful diy to make!
Maria
I love anything Driftwood!!! THis is gorgeous!!! Christine from Little Brags
Maria this is so cute! I’m not a big fan of wind chimes because I don’t like the sound of metal hitting metal but I think this would be so relaxing..definitely going to have to give it a try!
Sydney, thanks for that! you are right this chime has a very light sound.. very soothing.
Maria
This is so pretty, what a great idea! Thanks for sharing at What’d You Do This Weekend?!
Hi Joy
Thanks for finding me and leaving such a nice comment, it made me feel loved! This weekend I so far went to see my son play tennis in a tournament and now I am resting and going to do a post! Trying to do it all, its not easy..Have a wonderful weekend
Maria
Maria, what a great way to use driftwood. It looks awesome, great job and perfect for the summer:).
Thanks for the kind comments…. Partner
Maria
Thank you for such a grat tutorial.
I am driftwood lover and collecter. I would like to share my page. Hope you accept.
Thank you !
A lot of crafting driftwood available
https://driftwoodandmacrame.com/
Thanks for sharing! Very pretty!
Thanks so much for the feature
Maria