Decorate a Movie-Themed Christmas Tree Inspired by The Year Without a Santa Claus

1. Squeeze matte acrylic paint inside bulb ornament. Rotate until fully coated.
2. Let dry overnight upside down in an egg carton.
3. Draw on nose with a red paint marker.
4. Use a black paint marker to add the mouth and its details.
5. Draw a vertical line under the nose.
6. Create a brow using black paint marker.
7. Draw on U-shaped eyes.
8. Add eye pupils.
9. Draw expression lines under eyes.
10. With your red paint marker, connect mouth pieces to add the bottom portion of mouth.
11. Draw in teeth lines using black paint marker.
12. Use white paint marker to fill in eyes and teeth. Add a white dot in each eye.
13. Fluff pom-poms and hot glue on top of ornament as hair.

1. Squeeze matte acrylic paint inside the bulb ornament. Rotate the ornament until fully coated with paint.
2. Let it dry overnight upside down in an egg carton.
3. Draw on the nose with a blue paint marker.
4. Use a black paint marker to add Snow Miser's smirk.
5. Draw on jaw lines.
6. Finish the mouth using the blue paint marker.
7. With your black paint marker, add on house-like eyes.
8. Draw on blue emotion lines under the eyes.
9. Add whites of eyes using the white paint marker.
10. Use a glue gun to add ice and hair details.

Mark LaFerney: Hello, I'm Mark LaFerney of slumberingalligator.com. I am so excited to be partnering with my friends over a Treetopia to bring you something super special for the holidays today. I thought it would be so fun to create a movie-themed Christmas tree that features movie-themed Christmas decorations. Now, there are lots of really great holiday films. One of my absolute favorites is The Year Without a Santa Claus. I just love the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser. I'm going to be showing you how to make the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser today so you can decorate your own Treetopia Christmas tree.

As you can see, I've already decked out this beautiful 30-inch white Treetopia wreath behind me with a few of my decorations. I cannot wait for you to see the entire tree. Before I go any further, I want to give a special shout out to my friend Enero of pillbox79.com for editing this video. Thank you so much, Enero. All right, let's make some ornaments. For the Heat Miser, you will need a clear shatterproof bulb ornament, matte acrylic paint in antique parchment, black white and red paint markers, yellow, orange, and red pom-poms, a low-temp hot glue gun and glue sticks, and an egg carton.

The very first step in creating the Heat Miser is to paint your ornament. Now we're going to do this by removing the top, and we are simply going to squeeze our antique parchment colored paint right inside of the ornament. Turn the ornament and squeeze a generous amount. What we're going to do is just swirl the paint around. We're going to want to get a full coverage. It's nice to have the egg carton nearby for any drips. Now, this takes a minute, and you can always add more paint as necessary.

It is looking fully covered. As you can see, I got a little paint there. It's not a big deal. I'll go ahead and just wipe that off. Then, what you're going to want to do is turn this upside down in your egg carton and let it dry overnight. Now paint will drip out and puddle, but that's okay. That's why you have the egg carton there. Now that my ornament is fully dry, I put the lid back on and attach the ornament hook. While this is drying, it's great to be able to hang it up.

Let's get started. The first thing I like to do is start with the nose. For the Heat Miser, I'm just going to find the center, and I'm simply going to draw the nose on. I'm going to draw a-- I think it's like the shape of a candy kiss is how I look at it. Next, we're going to add the mouth using your black paint pen. Now, we're going to connect these lines. Now, on the left side of the mouth, I'm just going to make a little triangular shape, just like so, almost looks like a little piece of cheese, and I'm going to fill that in with a little bit of black. Then, I'm going to do something very similar on the right side of the mouth here.

We're going to come back to the mouse in a minute, but first, I'm going to draw one little quick line under your nose. We're going to move up to the eyes now. We're going to be creating this brow here, and I think of it as-- It's like an upside-down W. It also, to me, looks like someone saying, "I don't know." This sort of gesture. Let me show you here. For the actual eyes, we're going to be making Us. I'm going to start here at the lowest point of the brow, just like so. You can see the face taking shape there. We're going to go ahead and add in our pupils really quick.

It's looking very good. I'm going to add some quick expression lines. You're just going to want to draw a line under the eyes, so good. Back down to the mouth. Time for the red marker again. We're just going to connect these two areas here to form the bottom portion of the Heat Miser's mouth, just like so. Then, we're going to add the teeth lines, two straight lines in the mouth. Now that the Heat Miser's features have dried, we're going to go ahead and fill in the teeth and the eyes with the white paint pen. There you have it. Then, just add one little dot in each eye, and there you have your painted face.

Next, we're going to add the Heat Miser's hair. I've heated my low-temp glue gun, and I have my pom-poms, which are going to be Heat Miser's hair. I have bigger red pom-pom here, and I just like to fluff it up with my hands, pull it apart, even something like that would be great. The wilder the hair, I find the better. Same with your little yellow and orange fluffy baby pom-poms here, just fluff them up a little more with your hands.

Then, you're going to grab your Heat Miser ornament and just place a line hot glue here at the top. Be very careful not to burn yourself. We're going to place that big red tuft of hair right there in the center. Then, we're going to add our orange and the yellow pom-poms to the side. It's fun to take pieces like this and then tuck them in. There we have it, the finished Heat Miser ornament.

Let's make that Snow Miser. For the Snow Miser, you will need a clear shatterproof bulb ornament, matte acrylic paint in cloudless, black, white, and blue paint markers, a low-temp hot glue gun and glue sticks, and keep that egg carton nearby. For the Snow Miser, we're going to start decorating it the same way as the Heat Miser. We're going to remove the top and we are going to squeeze in our lovely blue paint, fully covered. We'll just go ahead and let that dry next to our Heat Miser overnight.

Let's get started on the Snow Miser. I'm going to start with the nose, just like I did the Heat Miser. As you can tell, Snow Miser has a much longer nose. It reminds me of a witch nose that has a little indentation, like a wart at the top of it here. Let's go ahead and start drawing on our nose. I'm just going to find the center and start with a tiny little line. Now what I'm going to do is just beef up my nose. Do that by just adding a little additional blue to the tip of the nose.

Next, we're going to switch over to our black paint pen, and we're going to add the Snow Miser's smirk there. Just under the nose, I'm going to draw one single line that smirks up at the end. Switch back to our blue paint pen to finish off the mouth, which is just one additional line. Where your mouth is, I'm going to go under, just connect it. It's time to add Snow Miser's eyes. Now, they're a little tricky just because they have an interesting shape, but it's nothing too hard, in fact, I see it to look like a crooked house, basically. As you can see, there's the floor and then the size of the house and then a slanted roof. We're going to start with Snow Miser's left eye, and it's going to come out of the nose line.

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I'm going to grab that blue paint pen one last time and add some more emotion lines. Now that our Snow Miser's features are mostly dry, I'm going to go ahead and paint on the whites of his eyes. Now that that's done, let's go ahead and add the icicle details using our low-temp hot glue gun. I like to dangle some icicles off the tip of Snow Miser's nose. Using your glue gun, make a straight line. Pull up at the end. I like to add three icicles to his nose. Then, to make Snow Miser's hair, I just do a zigzag of hot glue along the top. Start at the top, go down, back towards the top. There you have it, the Snow Miser.

In addition to the great ornamentation I created for this tree, I thought it would be super fun to go over-the-top with my Christmas movie theme and hand paint backdrops of the Heat Miser and Snow Miser's lair.

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I really love when all the pieces come together. There in the background, you will see my hand-painted backdrops for the Snow Miser and the Heat Miser's lair, then, the beautifully decorated Treetopia tree featuring Heat Miser on one half and Snow Miser on the other. You'll also notice the felt snowflakes and felt flames. Red and white ribbon works perfectly for the Heat Miser, and then, I added blue polka dot for the Snow Miser side.

I really hope you enjoyed this video with all of its Christmas movie theme decorating ideas. Sometimes, it's just fun to go big, and with a great theme like this, there are so many possibilities. I hope you are feeling inspired to create your own Treetopia movie-themed Christmas. From me, the Heat Miser, the Snow Miser, and of course all of my friends at Treetopia, we are wishing you a very happy holiday season.

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