If you have a router, consider giving the edges a finished look like I did (take a look at the after picture).I hope this helps you capture some wonderful memories with your children throughout the years! Paint your family's name, the year you and your spouse got married, a bible verse, your children's names, a family monogram, or anything else to personalize your growth chart! Don't forget to put your and your spouse's measurements on the chart! Also, it's fun to put your child's birth date, weight, height, and birth time on your chart.If your flanges fit incorrectly, it may cause redness, pain, nipple damage, clogged ducts, and improper suctioning may impact your milk supply. This means you will need to hang your growth chart off the ground making sure that the one foot mark is exactly one foot off the ground. Most pumps come with standard size flanges (between 24 millimeters and 27 millimeters) but many women need to size up or size down. The bottom of your board will read just under one foot. If a real-life inch is smaller than an on-screen inch, decrease the on-screen magnification. If a real-life inch is larger than an on-screen inch, increase the on-screen magnification. Be careful not to scratch your screen, especially if your ruler has any sharp metal corners or edges. Also, this probably doesn't need to be said, but I will say it anyway. Take a real-life ruler and hold it up to the on-screen Ruler.I placed the six foot mark six inches down from the top of the board. For my family, I don't anticipate anyone being over 6'6'.

If you anticipate your children being pretty tall, you may want to start the top of your growth chart at over six and a half feet. I would suggest you start with the top when you label each foot.Here are a few helpful tips before you begin. All you need is a board (2'x10'x 6 ft), black paint and a thin paint brush (or a Sharpie), wood stain (optional), polyurethane to seal, and hardware to hang the board on the wall. Mark your child's growth on a DIY Ruler Growth Chart! These are very popular and very easy to make.

Life sized ruler