We’re just a couple weeks away from Thanksgiving now, and we finally have our plans for the holiday. Thanksgiving day will be pretty low-key with just the usual parade-watching and feasting. Then, we’ll spend the next day driving into the mountains to go to a cut-your-own Christmas tree farm.

We moved to North Carolina from Florida about 5 years ago, and it’s something I’ve always wanted to do with the kids.

I couldn’t be more excited. And, I’m hoping we can go ahead and snap some family photos to use for our Christmas cards this year.

I love seeing cars and trucks driving down the road with their trees strapped to the hood. It’s so exciting, and the imagery really gets me into the holiday spirit. And, it’s what inspired this Christmas ornament craft! We love making homemade ornaments as part of our !

Most of the items you need to make the Christmas car and truck ornaments can be found at the Dollar Tree.

In the instructions, I used glitter paper for the windows. But, after my family goes on our trip to a tree farm, I plan on putting a photo from our outing into one of these ornaments to keep as a special keepsake ornament.  I will also likely add the year somewhere on the ornament.  The photo below shows how it will look, but this is not my family.  I used a stock photo in order to respect my kids’ privacy (and the fact that I don’t actually have the photo that I’m going to use yet!).

Have fun making or Christmas car and truck popsicle stick ornaments!

Be sure to also check out this list of you can make with your kids this holiday season!

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