This year we’ve been making and collecting decor in a neutral and metallic color scheme. I’ve seen spray painted animals all over pinterest, so I decided to try them out as simple ornaments. We followed this tutorial via Curbly to add hooks with a drill and then finished them with simple gold spray paint. 
I love how they turned out and will definitely make more in the future! 
Have you made any ornaments this year? xo. elsie
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this is an awesome idea! will definitely be giving it a go 🙂
I love these! I made toy animals into Christmas candle holders! (Here: http://www.chasingthere.com/2012/12/christmas-craze-candle-holders.html) I love how these little toys add so much fun character to a space!
yours are a little fancier than mine!! I did these animals too – and dinosaurs! All painted gold… but I glued my ribbon on top. LOVE them!!
Love this idea! Definitely trying it.
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Love these custom ornaments!! This just shows, it doesn’t take much to truly make holiday decorating your own.
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This idea is so simple and yet, inspired! You ladies get me so excited to have my own home to decorate 🙂
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I’ve been spraypainting everything gold this season, too! Ever since I bought some gold spray paint for my stepdaughter’s Halloween costume, nothing has been safe. My favorite was making gold Christmasy mantlepiece decorations out of our pumpkins.
LOVE these! So easy and cute!
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Love this craft, totally want to make horses!!
xo
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I love this idea, so simple!
Very cute. My 2 year old would love these! I’d love to see a pic of your whole tree. I bet its beautiful. :0)
Love!
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Cute! I love the gold horse.
I made all kinds of crochet ornaments this year! I also give a handmade ornament to my mom every year that I haven’t finished yet. Only two weeks left! 😉
These are adorable!! I haven’t made any ornaments yet this year, but I’ve made a few things for holiday home decor. Fuzzy Christmas trees with bells, a red sparkly deer silhouette wall art, and (my favorite) an antler wall plaque (which I shared here: http://lepetithoot.com/blog/crafting/2012/diy-antler-wall-plaque/ )
wow these came out great! i absolutely love them
A great idea to paint these in gold! They look so precious now.
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Such a great idea!
Such a cool idea! My family’s Christmas ornaments are all animals, and this would be a cool way to bring that idea into my own Christmas tree someday.
love them!
I’m going gold with our decorations this year as well…everything I touch seems to either get painted gold, wrapped in gold or dipped in gold glitter! and then you go and show me this…I’m off to buy some animals!
A fun idea once you’ve got that spray can in hand where do you stop 🙂
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So Cute!!! I haven’t made any so far this year as I am overseas and away from my crafting box!!!!
But I have made many in my day haha!
Cx
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Aaaah!! So beautiful! And its a great idea!! I want some!! 😀
So pretty! I love animals, don’t think the family would appreciate these though. Will have to wait until I move into my own place 🙂
Very nice !
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Brilliant!
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Love them
I made some gold painted dino ornaments last week – tutorial on the blog ( I just screwed the hooks into the plastic, much easier !)
xx
That looks so nice. I like that color which you did chose. HAve a nice day.
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Great idea. Now I have to see if my mom saved those toys.
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haha, I made the same DIY on my blog 🙂 these plastic animals are truly a blast!
These are stunning!!
This is brilliant and the ornaments are “shatter proof” for the kiddos! What fun!
This is kinda of King Midas decorations. Loving it!
I did this with dinosaurs! I love love love them. I didn’t add hooks to mine, though. Instead, I just set them up on my mantle amidst some snowy vase filler, pine garland, faux pinecones, and twinkly lights. 🙂 They make me happy.
Love your miscellaneous animal take on the project!
I did the exact same thing, but not as fancy!
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Mimi
The ornaments look adorable. The gold ribbon is a nice touch. I’m actually working on a set of these right now that’s all dinosaurs in coral, mint green, and gold for a mini tree. However, I do want to point out that Curbly lifted this idea from the YoungHouseLove site. I appreciate that you’re giving credit to your inspiration, but I really feel that it should go to John and Sherry.
I love this idea!! They look amazing!
I made gold dipped feather ornaments this year!
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Love love LOVE these ornaments!!! I’m on a DIY holiday gift kick this year and I think I may just need to add these to the mix!!!
This is such a perfect idea! I love the fact you could apply this to practically anything! Thanks for sharing!
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Looks super cute <3
xo
How Creative!!! I love it!! =)
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Such an amazing idea and so simple as well!
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These look great! I love the horse. It reminds me of your hand printed dress which was gorgeous. I just made some yarn ornaments and I really liked how they turned out. I posted a tutorial as well.
Such a cool idea!
Great idea, very creative!!!
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What a great idea! I don’t have any kids so this would have never occurred to me. I have a dog though .. I suppose I could do this with a dog toy 😉
Monica
They look so cute! i did something similar but with paper cranes a few years ago 🙂
I KNEW there was a reason why I’ve been collecting tiny plastic animals and figurines! Thanks for sharing; this is a beautiful idea!
I would’ve never thought of this! I love those animals even more now!
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I like the idea– you don’t find them too heavy for your tree? (Just wondering. I have a tiny, fake tree this year… would probably have to test the weight before buying any little plastic animals to repurpose.) 🙂
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These are cute. I can’t stop making these, sending them out as gifts this year.
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i ve seen many DIYs similar to this on pinterest. greatttt idea
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This is so serendipitous! I was selling jewelry at an independent market this weekend and bought a necklace from a girl who was spray painting dollar store figurines gold and stringing them onto necklaces. I am wearning one with a cat on it right meow!
Love this idea. Great way to save money on new ornaments!
Yes, they are just perfect! I love them too!
Cute!! xx
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I just love the idea of using the animals as ornaments, so cute! I used them to create little kid friendly metallic objects: http://www.thedesignitch.com/2012/11/spray-painted-toy-animals.html .
These are amazing! I don’t have a tree this year but will definitely save this for later!
Thank you!
xo Hannah
Wow so cute! I love metallic neutrals for holiday decor too. We haven’t done much decorating, since we always go to our parent’s for christmas.
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I’ve been looking forward to this ever since the sneak peek! I think this is the best way to recycle old toys!
I have a tree in our backyard that drops huge acorns I put some wire on them and hung them there so natural looking and go with any thing
LOVE this idea!!
How did I not think of this?! It would have been prefect for my red & gold tree this year! 🙂
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These are so great! I have a good friend who is a champion dressage rider and I think she’ll love these!
xo
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Beautiful idea!
I have made lots of Froebel stars. They can hang anywhere, in a tree as well as in the window. I think I´ll make some more, using thin felt. I wonder, if it works.
Thank you Elsie for this post!
I bought some silver and gold spray a few weeks ago and I`m still thinking for what I should use them.You gave me some great ideas!
xoxo
These are so pretty! I love gold christmas ornaments!
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Thanks for all of the great posts!! 🙂
I made these last year – such a great addition to the tree!