My kids have a LOT of toys. And as the holidays are coming up (as is my daughter’s 5th birthday) I’m trying to see how I can repurpose old toys as gifts to give to them as well as other relatives and friends.
My daughter is obsessed with my jewerly. She loves trying it on, playing with it, and picking out what pieces I should wear when I go out. So I decided to gift her with a few pieces of her own. Including a handmade toy animal necklace I made just for her.
These toy animal necklaces are super easy to make and take about 10 minutes to actually put together. How’s that for a simple DIY gift?
Toy Animal Necklaces
What you need:
- small toy animal (mine was 1.5″)
- .75″ eye pin (I wanted to use screw eye pins but couldn’t find them)
- bead fix gel or other adhesive
- chain necklace
What you do:
1. Take an eye pin and poke a hole into your toy. If you are having difficulty getting it in, or if the pin is bending, you may need to use a small drill to drill a hole. Or you can simply get a small nail and create a small hole to get the pin going.
Please note: I had to cut my pin in half to allow it to fit inside the body of the toy.
2. Add a small amount of glue onto the pointed end of the eye pin. Place eye pin in the toy and make sure it’s secured with glue. Let set.
3. Grab the necklace. If the top circle of the eye pin is too small for one end of your necklace to go through, you may need to remove the link of the chain attaching the chain to the clasp. Once you can fit the necklace chain through the round eye of the eye pin, re-secure chain to necklace and clasp.
That’s it! How easy is this project? For the next batch I’m going to spray paint the animals before I put them on the chains. And I’m going to try and dig around and find smaller animals!
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Thanks for giving us more ideas to repurpose oldd toys!
Oh my gosh these are so fun. I love that you used sea animals! I made these with dinosaurs and horses before but this is a fun twist.
Cute necklace! Thanks!
This is so sweet I make jewelry every year for friends & family something handmade is so much better then store bought 🙂
Cute idea. Thanks for sharing this!
Muy lindos los collares y sobre todo diferentes!!!
I think it is time for new glases. I read the glue as Dead Fix and it made me laugh.
My grandkids would love these necklaces. I am making card gift sets for my handmade gifts.
I have a few grandkids that will love this idea!
This is such a great idea! I’m totally going to do this with the girls! Miss you all!
Cute idea for kids who love dinosaurs! I make a lot of the gifts I give. This year I am making necklaces for a few gals.
What a great way to recycle toys and give the kids a rainy day project.
FUN project and CUTE gift idea 🙂
THANK YOU for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION … definitely going to give it a try, might even get the kids to do it for a party / craft activity!!!
Such a cute idea. Great jump off point. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win such an amazing prize.
What a sweet idea! Tfs
Love this idea
Soooo…. I carpool with another family and the little girls LOVE, Love, LOVE animals. seriously! as soon as they jump from the car they scurry over to the tree in their yard to find lizards. really! This may be just the thing to give them for a Christmas gift. 🙂 thanks so much for sharing!!
Awww 🙂 My son asked me to make him a bug one and even went to find a bug I could use out of his collection. Love inspiring littles with these types of crafts.
What an adorable idea! Thanks for sharing!
Interesting project. Glad you’re in the HOP!
OMG, what a cute way to use small toys. Great Christmas gift idea for the kiddos. Thanks for sharing this adorable project:)
Cute idea for the toys. I bet kids would love it.
Oh this is just too cute and something I would not have thought to do, thanks! And thanks also for the chance to win some great crafty loot to play with!
What a fun gift idea!
So cute, love this fun idea! Children will love to wear it! I have lot of toys like this!
What fun! I’m off to raid the toy box!
Now this is just serious fun!
TOTALLY adorable!!! Such a cool idea! TFS!
great idea for kids
What a cute idea!
Cute idea for the kids
Amazing creation! Thank you for this amazing giveaway!!!!
Thank you for your sharing. I am worried that I lack creative ideas. It is your article that makes me full of hope. Thank you. But, I have a question, can you help me?