Clever Letters: An "O"pple for the Teacher

For the letter "O" I gave it 2 coats of red paint. Paint the back and sides first as I said before. When the letters are painted dark, I paint the back dark also, otherwise, I use a cream or light color just to cover the wood and give it more of a neat look on the back.  I made a stem out of brown pipe cleaner and the leaf out of green felt, hot glued on the back.  I wrote a message on a mini chalkboard, and hot glued it to the "apple."

For the "M" I traced it backwards on craft paper and brushed regular Mod Podge on the letter and smoothed the paper in place. I added a red ribbon by gluing the ends around the back and a dab in the center, then added a white button, to keep with the color scheme, as you will see later.