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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Christmas Tree Truck Ornament








This is my take on the Christmas Tree Truck design that is still quite popular this year.

I came up with this ornament for Christmas Craft Day so it's a fairly easy one to put together.














MATERIALS REQUIRED:

- pattern template
- corrugated cardboard scrap
- red and grey (black and white) acrylic paint
- red felt
- black felt
- red buttons
- wooden coffee stir stick
- white craft foam
- sticky gem
- grey glitter paper
- garland ties (garland pipe cleaners)
- tacky glue
- fine sharpie pen
- string for hanging

PROCEDURE:




Using the pattern for the truck body cut one out of corrugated cardboard.



















Paint both sides of the cardboard with red acrylic paint.


Set aside too dry.












Cut 2 pieces out of your coffee stir stick.
















Paint the wood pieces grey.


Let dry.


















Cut the wheel well pattern out of the red felt, basically a loonie sized circle, and cut in half.

Cut 2 black circles, about quarter sized, for the tires.











Glue one of the wheel wells on first positioning it just back a bit from front of truck.
















The running board is next.  I added a few texture lines on it with a fine sharpie pen.























Glue running board into place.





















Glue on the next wheel well.

Glue the tires into place and the truck rear bumper.
















Glue 2 red buttons onto the tires for the hubcaps.

I found these great holiday button packs at Dollarama.












For the window I used a grey glitter paper.


















I then used that fine Sharpie pen to draw in the lines for the door and the handle.



















For the headlight I cut a semi circle out of white craft foam, glued it into place and then added a sticky gem.















The tree is made from these garland ties.

You only need 1/4 of one tie.

















Turn truck to back and glue tree into place.

















The last step is to add a hanger.  I'm using this gold thread I have.  You can use yarn or string even.


















In order to get the truck to hang level attach the string to the back right after the cab of the truck.

I used red duct tape but you can use white or hot glue.














That's it.

Gail

2 comments:

  1. This is awesome! I will help my 9-year old to make it in a full size, so we can frame it actually :)

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