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How to make a wooden egg holder

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

Are you looking for an simple yet pretty way to display your easter eggs? Or just to add a little farmhouse style to your weekend brunch table? Today I’m going to show you how to make an easy wooden egg holder.

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

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1. Cut a piece of wood

I used a piece of solid maple for my wooden egg holder, but you can use whatever scrap wood you have laying around.  The maple wood was a bit of leftovers from when I made some barbecue grilling planks and it ended up being the perfect size for an egg holder. I chose to make mine 9 3/4 inches long, 5 1/4 inches wide, and 3/4 inches tall.Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

2. Measure hole locations

Next I measured out the locations for the holes. We are a family of six people, so if I’m pulling out the fancy egg holder it’s probably because we have guests over. So I decided to make eight holes.

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

Using a square measuring tool, measure 1.5 inches from each side and create a grid pattern.

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

Using a measuring tape, I measured two inches between the centers of all the holes. With a one inch diameter hole, this left a half inch between all the holes.

3. Drill holes in the wood

There are several ways you can cut the holes in your wooden egg holder depending on the tools you have. You can use a power drill with a 1 inch spade bit to hollow out the hole from each side. You could also use a drill with a 1 inch Forstner bit. With this bit, you can drill right through from the top, just make sure you have a sacrificial piece of wood underneath. I ended up using a drill press with a 1 inch Forsnter bit.

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

3. Sand the wood plank

Use a palm sander and several different sandpaper grits to get a smooth finish. I started with 80, then 120, and finished with 240. By hand, I used sheets of sandpaper to sand the insides of the holes. Then I also lightly sanded all the corners to give it a smooth and finished look.

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

4. Apply the linseed oil finish

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

I chose to use linseed oil for the finish. I wanted to keep the natural color of the maple, while also deepening and protecting the wood. 

Using a clean white rag apply two coats of linseed oil, letting it dry for about an hour in between coats.

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

Completed wooden egg holder!

And there you have a simple and beautiful farmhouse style wooden egg holder! This is perfect to pull out for Sunday brunch or to display your hand painted Easter eggs. These would also be great for storing eggs in the fridge.

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

Display your farm fresh eggs or brightly colored Easter eggs with this DIY wooden egg holder! This makes a great gift idea. It is useful, practical, and looks pretty on a brunch table. #eggholder #easteregg #woodeneggholder #eastergift

How to make a farmhouse style egg holder from solid maple

Other options

If you’re not the type of person to make your own egg holder, I’ve linked to a few other  handmade options. I’d love to know if this is something you’d make, or how you would use it!

 


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  1. Sarah Smith says

    March 2, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    Jess – your talents never cease to amaze me! Also, your photography is phenomenal. Love it all! 🙂

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    • Jessica Vanderveen says

      March 3, 2019 at 7:31 am

      Aw that means a lot, thank you!!

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  2. Michelle says

    March 3, 2019 at 3:54 pm

    What a cute idea!!!

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    • Jessica Vanderveen says

      March 3, 2019 at 4:38 pm

      Thank you!

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