Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck

This Dollar Tree wooden vintage truck has been in my craft stash for as long as I can remember, and I’ve wanted to make it over into a DIY Sunflower Truck for just as long! The Vintage Truck Decor has been trendy forever and I don’t think they’re going out of style anytime soon. Another reason why I love this Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck DIY!

DIY Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck made with Dollar Tree supplies, faux sunflowers, a honey bee, wood bead hanger, and black with yellow polka dots for spring and summer DIY affordable decor.

I’ve been holding on to this Dollar Tree wooden truck for waaaayyyy too long. I knew that I wanted to make it into a sunflower truck, but I wasn’t exactly sure how I wanted it to look so I just kept putting it off. Until now!

I started making an entire collection of Sunflower crafts and decor this year, and it’s going to take me a WHILE to get them all up on the blog, but you’ve gotta start somewhere right?!

How cute does this truck look next to that fantabulous Paint Stick Ladder we made in The CRafterparty!?

The Dollar Tree Wooden Sunflower Truck next to other DIY crafts in decor that are all black, yellow, and white sunflower theme.

So far I’ve got my Dollar Tree Sunflower Gnome on here, my Fabric Sunflower Mason Jar, and now this Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck, so were off to a good start. Make sure to keep checking back, or head over to my Facebook page to check out the other 20 plus Sunflower crafts I’ve made this year.

Can I just tell you how much I am obsessed with Sunflowers?! I have OSD…..Obsessive Sunflower Disorder. I enjoy them year round, don’t get me wrong, but I reallllllyy think they are a true sign that Summer is on it’s way. If there is any way at all to work a Sunflower into one of my crafts, then trust me I’m gonna do it. #SunflowerLover

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Supplies Needed to make a Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck

Dollar tree raw wooden truck before it was painted.

Dollar Tree Wooden Truck
Wooden framed surface ( I got mine from Target Dollar Spot)
Black paint
Yellow paint – I mixed Golden Sunset and Yellow Apple Barrel
White paint
Antique wax or brown stain
Mini Dollar Tree Calendar print – “Honey Bees and Flowers Please”
Small paper sunflowers
Faux sunflower heads and greenery
Burlap
Twine
Black, white/sunflower, yellow wood beads
Black paint pen
Mini rhinestone bee embellishment
Popsicle stick
Glue Gun

How to Makeover a Dollar Tree Wooden Truck into a Sunflower Truck

I made this adorable Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck on video, so you can WATCH the step by step tutorial on YouTube HERE or click on the picture right below.

Watch the video tutorial here

First things first, paint the entire wooden truck all black.

Next, paint the rails of the wooden truck bed white.

Painting the bed rails of the truck white.

Then, using a spouncer, cover the entire sunflower truck in yellow polka dots. You can do these as big or as small as you like and you can do as many or as few as you like (or you could do more whimsy swirly freehand polka dots).

I did two coats of the polka dots to make them nice and bold yellow. Glue a mini paper sunflower to the center of each truck tire. It should look something like this when you’re done.

Mod Podge the mini Dollar Tree calendar print to the door of the truck. You could use any type of free print or image, it doesn’t have to be the calendar print!

Now it’s time to prepare our background. Start by covering the entire thing with the Antique Wax, and then wiping dry with a baby wipe or paper towel.

Cover the the entire wooden frame with the Antique Wax and then wipe down with a paper towel.

I didn’t quite like the sold dark brown, so I decided to take a chip brush and dry brush white paint over the top.

Take a chip brush and dry brush white paint over the top of the wooden frame.

Now to glue the faux sunflower heads and greenery into the bed of the truck. I placed the truck on top and then arranged them how I liked them, and then removed the truck and glued them all down.

I had to cut the heads off of the small ones, and re-glue them face forward so that they sat right in the bed of the truck and so that they faced forward, not up.

Glue a sunflower head to the green stem.

Now, glue the truck back down to the wooden frame, so it looks like the sunflowers are being carried in the truck!

Glue the sunflower truck to the wooden frame so that the sunflowers look like they are in the bed of the truck.

To make the burlap pendant banner, I first traced 6-7 triangles onto the burlap and then cut them out. I then glued them to a piece of twine.

Make a burlap pendant banner by cutting triangles out of burlap and gluing them to a piece of twine.

Then I glued the burlap pendant banner to the top of the bed of the truck.

A burlap pendant banner glued to the bed of the truck.

Make a long black dotted swirly line coming out of the truck bed for the path of the bee, and then glue a rhinestone bee to the end of the line.

A rhinestone bee embellishment coming out of the sunflower truck bed with a dotted black line to show the trail that the bee flew.

Last but not least, I made a twine hanger with just 5 wood beads on each side. I thought a full wood bead hanger would be too much and it would take away from the project.

String black, yellow, and white sunflower beads onto twine to make a wood bead hanger.

Glue the twine wood bead hanger to the back of the wooden frame, and reinforce it with a half of a popsicle stick. This project is a tad heavy, so you definitely want to reinforce that hanger!

The back of the project showing the twine glued to the back and reinforced with a popsicle stick.

Cute right!?

Make a half wood bead hanger to hang the truck up.

I am so so so so incredibly in love with how this Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck Turned out!

Are you going to make this Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck to match your Sunflower decor? 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 completed DIY’s and crafts. I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations!

Close up of the dollar tree sunflower truck with yellow polka dots, sunflowers in the truck bed and a bumblebee flying out of the truck bed.

Doesn’t this Dollar Tree Sunflower Truck look just fabulous with my DIY HOME Ladder Decor?!

The black with yellow polka dot wooden dollar tree truck next to a white wooden ladder with the word HOME and a Sunflower for the "O".

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