To accent my oldest son’s vintage airplane room, I have been searching for ideas on how to make or buy a light-weight simple aircraft to hang from the ceiling. I wasn’t having too much luck until one day I was holding a monthly swap party and a friend of mine showed up with a foam glider she was ready to part with. It was the perfect thing to make a super cheap and extremely easy hanging airplane.

Supplies
Foam glider
Paint (in any color your little heart desires)
Primer
Thread
Single hole punch
Eye-hook

First, I carefully removed the glider from the package and coated it with primer.

Next, 2 coats of blue paint that I had left over from another project were applied to the plane’s surface.

After the glider was finish drying, I punched a hole in the center with a single hole punch.

Finally, I attached the eye-hook to the ceiling, strung the plane with neutral colored thread, and hung through the eye hook and securely tied a knot. This will hopefully keep it from gliding through my son’s bedroom in the middle of the night.

My little guy was so pleased with how this turned out that he immediately requested another. I picked up the second glider at the dollar store and spray painted that one.

You really can’t beat that price for this project!

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Recently, I shared the first steps of the bed frame my husband and I are making for our youngest son. Today, the story continues with the DIY Upholstered Bed Frame Part:2. Follow along to see how we finished things up and added a fabric covered headboard.

Supplies for Headboard

Plywood measured to the width of bed frame
(2) 1x4s measuring 4′ each
Quilt Batting
Fabric
Staple gun with lots of staples
Drill and screws
(4) L-shaped brackets

Okay, this is what the bed framelooked like where we left off last time.

To create the headboard, I started by wrapping the plywood with quilt batting and attaching it with staples to the back.

Next, I stretched the fabric tightly over the padded plywood and stapled around the edges of the back to secure.

Then, two L-shaped brackets were attached to each of the 1x4s and the non-fabric side of the plywood near the top and bottom of the plywood. This created legs for the headboard.

Finally, we secured the legs to the bed frame with screws.

We are so happy with how this turned out. It was a big project, but totally worth all the effort.

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