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

Kandinsky Christmas Tree

This is an easy Christmas tree project.  Good for kinders on up.





I did 3 versions.  This is on paper.

This is on wood.

and then as ornaments.




















MATERIALS REQUIRED:

- heavy painting paper for background, the wood version uses hardboard or MDF
- drawing paper for collage papers
- liquid tempera or acrylic in many colours
- corrugated cardboard
- tacky glue
- a little bit of glitter paper
- thread for hanging if making ornaments

PROCEDURE:

For the paper version I taped off my background paper.

Using blue tempera or acrylic paint your background.  I used 2 blues for variety using a darker blue at the top of my page.

If you don'y have 2 blue shades use a little white or black in your blue paint to mix a different blue to use.


I used blue acrylic on my hardboard for my wood version.


Set aside to dry.

I then took some corrugated cardboard and cut out a large triangle for my tree.

I measured my cardboard to make sure it was slightly smaller than my background before cutting.

For the ornaments I cut smaller triangles and added a little bit of a trunk.

Paint your cardboard green.

I did the same for my ornaments but did both sides.








Set aside to dry.

Now it's time to make our collage papers.  You need to paint a few papers in multiple colours.


At school we will share papers so I will get some students to do the yellow, some to do the green, etc.

I like to get a little variation in my painted papers so I include white to add in here and there or different shades of colours.

When the papers and triangle are dry we can begin assembly.

Here you can see the colour variations I use for the painted papers.  A lot more interesting this way.

Start cutting out different sized circles out of the paper.

We are going to layer some of them.

I like to have it all cut and planned out before I start gluing.

You can use some small circles of a single colour to fill in the holes.

When you have it planned start gluing.

I did the same with my ornaments.

For the top of the tree we are going to make layered circle top.

Now my tree is not glued on here I just have it placed on my background to see how big to make my circle at the top.


I traced the inside of my tape on the back of my painted yellow paper.

I glued this at the top of my background.  I then cut a smaller circle out of some glitter paper and glued that on the yellow circle.

I glued my tree on now and then added a even smaller circle on the top of the tree.


You can see I did the same for the tree on the wood base.

For the ornaments it's a little different.

I cut 2 of my larger yellow circle.  I then glue them together with my hanger thread sandwiched between.

I then glue on the smaller glitter circle on the front and then glue this to my tree.

That's it I hope you give this a try.



Gail

Mini Santa

It's that time of year again......I am knee deep in preparations for Christmas Craft Day. 

420 kids doing 12 crafts on one spectacular day.

I have some new crafts this year that I will be posting on the blog.

First up this mini Santa.  He is only 15 cm or 6 inches high.  Made with easy to find items from the Dollar store.







Let's get started:





MATERIALS REQUIRED:

- red solo shooter cups
- Styrofoam head, around 4cm or 1.5"
- flesh coloured acrylic paint, or you could mix your own with brown, pink and white
- black sticky craft foam
- snow fabric from Dollar store
- red fleece fabric
- white and red (or pink) pompom, 10mm or .39"
- 2 googly eyes
- scrap of black paper and gold glitter paper
- white fun fur
- tacky glue
- plastic knife

PROCEDURE:

The body of the Santa is this red shot glass I got at the Dollar store.  Still very affordable.

I also bought snow fabric and I cut it into strips about 15 cm or 6 " long and fairly skinny (1.5 cm or .5").

Glue along rim of cup.

I then add the belt.  From a sheet of black sticky back craft foam I cut a slender strip the short way.  I cut that strip in half, peel away backing and stick to cup just below that line on the cup.

Now I also bought these Styrofoam heads.

For craft day we paint these ahead of time.  Easiest way is to stick them on a skewer paint and then stick skewer into a Styrofoam block to dry.

With 420 I will do this over several days.

When the head is dry slice a little off the bottom to make it flat.  I just use a plastic knife.

Put glue on top of shot glass and then stick flat end of head into the glue.

Now add some hair (it also helps us glue on the hat).

I take that same snow fabric and pull it a bit to make a clump.  Put some glue on top of head and press hair in place.

You then can glue on the googly eyes and pompom nose.

For the beard I use some white fun fur.  You want the short kind, just a bit fuzzy.  If you can't find any you could use white fleece fabric.

I cut an oval and then glue into place.

Now it's time to add a hat.  The hat starts as a triangle of red fleece fabric.

The bottom is about 13 cm or 5 " long and the sides are 10 cm or 4".  If you curve the sides a bit it makes a better hat.

For school I pre glue the hat with a glue gun so it's ready to be attached to the head.

Put some glue inside the hat rim....

and then place on the hair.  The hair helps it stay in place.


Add the white pompom to the top of the hat.

Almost finished just have to add the belt buckle.

Cut a small square from some gold glitter paper.

Cut a tiny square from some scrap black paper and glue into center of glitter paper.

Glue the buckle on to the belt and your mini Santa is done.

These can decorate your tree or sit on the mantle.  You could even use them as place settings for your Christmas dining table.


Hope you make a few and I can't wait to see the hundreds of them being made on Craft day.



Gail