How To Make A Super Cute DIY Crate Red Pickup Truck
I was messing around with the wooden crates at Walmart and inspiration stuck! I wanted to make a vintage DIY red truck that I could use around my home. Check out my red truck made from crates and the best part – you can use this all year for all seasons!
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To make this crate truck, I bought one large crate and 3 small crates from Walmart.
The specific crates are here – large crate & mini crate
I painted them all with Apple Barrel bright red acrylic paint, and let them all dry completely.
On the first small crate I painted the bottom 2 slats for the bumper with Folk Art Home Decor Chalk Paint in the color metallic silver.
On the second crate I added wall stickers I found at Dollar Tree to be the windows. Bigger on the front and back sides for windshield and back window, and then smaller on the sides for door windows.
On the 3rd crate I added 2 LED stick on lights from Dollar Tree to become headlights.
On the large crate, I painted the bottom slat with the metallic silver paint for the rear bumper. I hot glued on 2 headlamp lights that I found at Dollar Tree and colored the surface red with a permanent marker for tail lights. I also had wood burned this coaster previously and wood glued that to the back as a license plate.
I found these wooden circles at Walmart in a package of 6. I painted 4 of them with Apple Barrel black acrylic paint and let that dry. I then painted the hubcap with Folk Art Home Decor Chalk Paint in the color Silver Shadow and let that dry. I used wood glue and glued the wheels onto the sides of the small crate with the bumper, and the sides of the large crate (truck bed) for back wheels.
Once the entire piece was dry it was ready to assemble. I stacked the 2 small crates in front for the hood, and the other small one with the windshields on top of the large crate.
You could glue these together with wood glue, but I opted to not glue them right now as they stack inside the large crate for easy storage.
Here is the assembled DIY Crate Red Pickup Truck from the front. I thought he was missing something so I added a wooden coaster that I had painted with Folk Art Chalkboard Paint. I then used chalk to make the grill. Alternatively I can write messages for the season on this as well.
Here is the other view of the DIY Crate Red Pickup Truck.
*Added bonus, the headlights and tail lights turn on 🙂
You can leave it as is or decorate it for all the seasons. For spring fill it with bunnies, planted flowers, eggs, etc.
For summer you can add plants. I added a hay bale and then put a flag in it.
For Winter I made DIY red truck Christmas Decor – add the famous look of the pine tree in the back. I added some LED lights as well.
For Fall – add mums, pumpkins, pine cones, and other decorations.
Can you believe I made this truck made out of crates? Are your ready to make your own wooden Crate Truck?
I was messing around with the wooden crates at Walmart and inspiration stuck! I wanted to make a vintage DIY red truck that I could use around my home. Check out my red truck made from crates and the best part – you can use this all year for all seasons!
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This truck is so cute. I am thinking of making one for my Mom as a gift. She is just obsessed with the red trucks. I see that you have given the links for the large crates. Unfortunately, when I click on it, it is saying something went wrong. Would you be willing to list the size of it.
Thank you so much
this truck is really cute..good job. I’ve been wanting to make one for the front yard but haven’t been able to find the small crates that fit the big one … been searching for a few days…
you didn’t give measurements of small crates and large one that work together like this
Thank you and here is the link to the wood crates at Walmart that I used https://rstyle.me/+M9Xod49KTHfICxOb1JAN7w
Hello
Just finished making the Little Red Truck. Had so much fun doing it? I found it hard to find the right crates. If you get a chance could you send me the measurements of your crates (not the post from Walmart as it doesn’t give measurements) I might have to make my own.
Love your crafts. Thanks for sharing. Wish I could show you how mine turned out.
Roxy
Hi Roxy, I’m so excited you made one. I’d love to see pictures and you have my email (you can reply to any of my emails/newsletters). I’m so excited to see it. Thank you so much for your kind words.
Hello. I would love to make this truck but, need to know how big the circles need to be for the wheels and the dimensions of crates. I clicked on the link that you provided and the large is 18 1/2 inches, does that seem like the correct size?
Is there an actual written supply list anywhere? I would greatly appreciate some assistance =)
Thank you in advance.
Heather
Hi Heather, here are the specific crates I used…
Large Crate https://rstyle.me/+b82TPOjr_P_Qa6HrD_O0HA
Mini Crate https://rstyle.me/+7LeZe-pgdhj4SMZ0LRYUew
Wood Circle were found in the craft isle at Walmart and were approximately 3″
How ADORABLE is this very clever idea! Love the headlights and such a smart idea for the tail lights. Mama needs some crates now after seeing this!
Thank you so much Marie! I’m thrilled you like my pick up truck. I like it because I can leave it up all year long and just change seasonally what’s in the truck. I’m excited you want to create one too!
This was so easy. I used red and black spray paint but this was so easy. I wish I could post a picture of mine. It was so easy. Thank you.
I’m so thrilled you were able to make one too. You can always email me a picture by replying to one of the email newsletters and send it that way 🙂