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