Make a Spring Vintage Red Truck Centerpiece with a Bunny
HOW TO MAKE A VINTAGE RED TRUCK CENTERPIECE WITH FLOWERS AND A BUNNY
We all have that one thing that we love about spring. As days become longer and warmer, everything around us becomes just a little greener. Flowers are blooming. OK, so here in the north part of Georgia mountains it is definitely spring time. Our nights are definitely cool but the days are just beautiful and bright. This is quite a change from our last spring in Florida, which went from hot to hotter.
To celebrate the new season we will decorate this vintage red truck. The shopping list is short and the number of tools is very limited as well. I am not a florist and at first I definitely though I will have trouble with arranging the greenery. You know what I realized? You can pull out the flowers and rearrange them if you do not like how it turns out.
So since it is very fixable, let’s begin with our lists.
SUPPLY LIST
Vintage Red Truck (Target)
Moss (Dollar Tree)
Floral Foam (Dollar Tree)
Glitter Egg Picks – 1 pack of large, 1 pack of small (Dollar Tree)
Floral Bundles, 1 purple, 1 yellow, 1 off white, 1 pink (Jo-Ann)
Bunny (Michaels)
TOOL LIST
Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Wire Cutters or Stem Cutter
Lazy Susan (if you have one)
* You may need a razor knife to cut your floral foam to fit
Step 1. We are starting with out truck and floral foam. Cut the foam to size if necessary to fit the bed of your truck. Use your hot glue to glue in the foam to the bed of the truck and make sure that once cured, it does not move.
Step 2. Place your bunny to see where you would like to display it. I chose to glue my bunny in close to the truck cab a bit on an angle. Make sure to hot glue your cutie in place.
Step 3. The bed of my truck has wooden slats for rails therefore I chose to cover the top and the three visible sides of the foam with moss. I used hot glue to make sure it stays in place.
You may choose to use scissors or the flower stems to push the moss into cracks your fingers may not fit into or just because you may not want to get burned by the hot glue. My moss is quite messy but it does a great job of covering and looks very natural just in case it shows through the flowers.
Step 4. Now you are ready to decorate the truck bed with flowers. Remember to cut each stem individually but also that you would leave it possible longer than what you think to start with. You can always trim it shorter if needed but it will be more difficult to add the height back. Also, you want to make sure your stems have different length. I envisioned the very back of the bed as the tallest portion with shorter flowers in the front so they would not overpower by bunny, the the sides shorter yet.
I started with my purple flowers, they look somewhat like wisteria but I am totally not an expert on flowers. As a matter of fact, I have a very hard time with keeping up with live plants therefore I absolutely love artificial ones.
If you are confident of your skills than you may want to use some hot glue to secure each stem. I usually do not glue my flowers in because I like to re-purpose my projects at a later date and the hot glue makes it more difficult.
This is the point where if you have a Lazy Suzan you may want to give it a spin. Go around your the bed of the truck and simply push the flowers into the foam. Make sure the flowers do not cover your bunny. If they do, just cut the stem shorter and try it again.
Continue with all your flowers until your truck bed is full, or just until you like it.
Step 5. Find a place to put your glitter eggs picks. I chose to have my eggs bit taller to see the sparkle behind my bunny. Try your placing and if you do not like, take them out and move to a different spot.