Tiered Tray Patriotic Firecracker Crate

Craft and decorate your tiered tray for Memorial Day and 4th of July with a mini Patriotic Wood Bead Firecracker Crate! This little Americana DIY is sure to make a bang!

Patriotic Mini Tiered Tray Firecracker Crate with red, white and blue wood bead firecracker with twine and a metal barn star on the front of the crate that is made with Dollar Tree Jenga Blocks and is the perfect size for tiered tray decor.

If you follow along on Facebook, then you may have seen the series we did making everything for my Patriotic Tiered Tray. Now this particular firecracker crate was made for my 2022 tray, but we’ve continued in 2023 as well.

It has become a sort of tradition to have Tiered Tray Live extravaganzas on my Facebook page where I go on a 1, 2 or even 3 week long spree hand making everything for my tray, not just for 4th of July, but other holidays as well.

Multiple seasons and holidays later, I am sticking with the tradition and hand-making everything for my Patriotic Tiered Tray as well!

Patriotic Tiered tray with 2 tiers and lots of handmade patriotic american crafts, a mini bookstack. mini flag pillow, and patriotic burlap star.

Now let me show you how easy it is to make a mini Wood Bead Firecracker Crate!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Tiered Tray Patriotic Firecracker Crate

How to Make a Tiered Tray Patriotic Firecracker Crate

I made this Patriotic Firecracker Crate on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Amanda holding the completed craft on a Facebook Live thumbnail.

Watch the video HERE

First, you need to make the crate using 8 Dollar Tree “Jenga” blocks. Just hot glue them together, 2 on each of the 4 sides, like you see below.

Then stain the mini crate with Waverly Antique Wax (or you can use brown paint mixed with water).

Then, add a bit of spanish moss to the inside of the crate.

Glue a metal barn star to the front for an extra embellishment.

The front of the mini jenga block crate with a metal barn star.

Now for the wood bead firecrackers, all you do is paint the beads red white and blue and then string them onto some twine, with a bad of hot glue to keep them in place.

I made my firecrackers 3 different sizes to give it some height variation.

Red = 5 beads
Blue = 4 beads
White = 3 beads

Wood beads painted red, white, and blue strung onto twine to make firecrackers.

Then you just glue them inside the mini crate and thats it!

How darn easy and how darn cute is this tiered tray DIY!? It looks so presh on the bottom tier next to my adorable Patriotic Flag Mini Bookstack!

The bottom tier of a patriotic tiered tray with several handmade crafts.

I made 15 crafts for a different tray during my LIVE Patriotic Extravaganza and you can see all of them HERE if you need some inspo!

Are you going to make a Tiered Tray Patriotic Firecracker Crate? If you do, I’d love to see it! Pop on over to our free Craftspiration Facebook group, and join in on the fun by posting a pic of your Tiered Trays, DIY’s and crafts. I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations.

A staged set up of a two tiered patriotic tiered tray with tons of handmade mini tiered tray crafts on a bookshelf next to a patriotic frame.

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