How to Spray Paint Plastic Animals

Plus 10 Awesome projects to make with cute plastic animals

I have seen beautiful projects with metallic animals in the stores and other peoples blogs. They look so adorable and stylish. You can definitely make them yourself using regular plastic animals and spray paint because they are often hard to find in the stores. It's easy peasy, I promise.

MATERIALS:

• Metallic spray paint. I still have some of these animals since I wrote this post (almost 8 years later) and they still look fantastic, my kids play with them and the paint is almost intact, so I definitely recommend this brand!

• Cheap plastic little animals similar to theses ones

• A piece of plastic or cardboard

How to Spray Paint Plastic Animals:

1. Protect your workspace. Read the instruction on your spray paint before you get started and protect your workspace using a piece of plastic or a cardboard below.

2. Spray paint the animals. Lay all the animals down in one side and apply the spray paint. Wait for a couple of minutes until the spray paint dries.

3. Flip them them over, spray and wait again.

4. Next step is to stand them up and try to cover all those spaces that you couldn't get before.

   They are going to be a bit sticky after applying the spray paint, that's why I recommend not to touching them and letting them dry after each layer for a half an hour at least.

Here are 10 Amazing Projects to Make with These Adorable Metallic Plastic Animals:

1. Glue the sparkly plastic animals on top of mason jars and give them as party favors with your favorite hot cocoa recipe inside and ingredients. You can also use the mason jars to store anything you would like.

2. This is probably the most affordable and fun cake topper i’ve ever seen.

3. Make a cute colorful necklace with them

4. How cute are these jewelry holders? You can use the same idea but with bigger plastic animals like these. A giraffe and rhinoceros would be amazing ring holders!

5. They will make awesome memo holders  for your office.

6. An stylish and cute wedding table decoration.

7. As a funny marketing gift with your personal cards.

8. Christmas ornaments and Christmas decorations (Saving this for the Holidays, it’s so cute!!)

9. Giant Bookends!!! with jumbo plastic animals that often are heavier like these

10. Glue them to a piece of wood and make a cool looking key holder.

I hope these projects inspire you. Have fun with your metallic plastic animals!