How to Build a Wooden Serving Tray

Having wooden serving trays makes carrying food and drinks to your guests much easier than trying to hold everything in your hands. Wooden serving trays are great for decoration as well. They can hold collections of glasses, trivets or other trinkets.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Unfinished shadow box picture frame
• Paint or stain
• Brush
• Measuring tape
• Tape
• One set drawer handles
• Pictures or trinkets
• Glue

1. Purchase a large unfinished shadow box picture frame. Any frame will work if it's 8 inches by 10 inches or larger. Buy one set of drawer handles.

2. Remove the glass and cardboard from the frame. Finish the wooden part of the frame by applying stain or paint to match your decor. Allow the paint or stain to dry for 24 hours.

3. Determine the middle of the short sides of the frame with a measuring tape. Mark the middle with a piece of tape so you know where to place the handles. You can put the handles on either the top or the sides of the frame. Center one handle of each of the short sides and screw them into the frame from the back.

4. Glue pictures or trinkets to the inside of the shadow box, if you want to decorate it.

5. Replace the glass and the back of the shadowbox frame. Your tray is ready to use.

Tips & Warnings

• You can change the appearance of your serving tray by changing the arrangement inside the shadow box to correlate with the theme of the party or the time of year.