Once upon a time I featured a post from Hank + Hunt for her DIY Animal Candle Holders. I blame that post for ooh’ing and ahh’ing over plastic animals every time I see them now. (Nerd alert!)
Since I apparently have a new found love for them, I thought I would come up with a project where I could use them for more than just birthday candles.
And hence, decided to make them into these DIY Party Animal Magnets.
Side note: For the safety of your reputation, never announce over the phone that you are “cutting up animals”, it gets awkward until you thoroughly explain yourself…
Materials & Tools Needed To Make DIY Party Animal Magnets
- Plastic animals — $1 each at the dollar store
- Scissors
- Super glue
- Plastic/bottle caps
- Spray paint
- Magnet circles
How To Make DIY Party Animal Magnets
1 — Cut the plastic animals in half with scissors, it’s surprisingly easy.
2 — Insert the caps into the open end of the animals.
3 — Spray paint them the color of your choice.
4 — Super glue the magnet to the back, and be sure to push in the cap far enough to for the magnet to be flush with the animal, I learned this by trial and error.
What To Use In Case Bottle Caps Don’t Fit Into Your Plastic Animal
- Air dry clay
- Thick cardboard cut-outs
Hey ,
What spray paint did you used?
I sprayed figures with simple gold paint and it’s not drying at all. Must be the rubbery material.
Thanks
Have you had a problem with the caps+magnets falling out when pulling it off a metal surface? Or do the caps stay plugged inside the animal pretty well? Would you suggest using super glue for the cap as well?
Btw I’m pinning this :)
Thanks so much for posting how to do this. I saw these on etsy and said I bet I could make those myself. :) I’m going to make them as wedding favors/ escort or place card holders!
love these!! so much fun:) Question… what if the animals aren’t the perfect size for a bottle cap to fit inside as the base? Any other ideas of how you attach the magnets?
You could use air-dry clay to fill the inside and it would definitely give it a really put together look. Or you could even use thick cardboard cutouts!
Freaking Awesome!! xx
I love that you spray painted them all one color! Looks great! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Nikki!
These are seriously cute!!!
Thanks, Hil! :)
Need to do the magnets with the butt of the animals too – oh so cute!
Haha, I agree! Hubby wanted me to use the butts, but I decided to stick with heads to make them seem more adult :)
If you do both, I could see some amazing animal creations from the kiddos.. Hippo head, tiger butt…tiger head, horse butt…. fun stuff.
Hey girl! I saw these animals chopped in half on instagram and now I’m glad to see where you were going with them.
Hopefully they look much better than my Instagram photo :)
My first glance at these reminded me of all the men I have known who are avid hunters who love to display their trophies on the wall…
This is Taxidermy innovation at its best…:)
These are amazing! Definitely going to add it to my crafts to-do list :)
Let me know how they turn out :)