Dinosaur Christmas tree ornaments

These playful dinosaur Christmas tree decorations are made by adding hanging hooks to plastic dinosaurs, spray painting them metallic gold and finishing them with ribbon or string. They are inexpensive, unusual and especially fun for dinosaur-loving families, kids’ trees and handmade ornament exchanges. The original tutorial already uses plastic dinosaurs, eyelet hooks, gold spray paint and clear sealer, so the refreshed copy keeps the same simple method while making the steps clearer and more search-friendly.

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What you need

Plastic dinosaurs

Eyelet hooks

Gold Spray Paint

Clear Sealer

Instructions

This amazing Christmas craft was created by Söphie Elizabeth who used plastic dinosaurs to create these fun and festive tree ornaments.

Thanks for sharing your images Sophie, We love it!

Not every Christmas ornament needs to be traditional. If your family has a dinosaur fan—or you simply like decorations with a little personality—these DIY dinosaur Christmas ornaments are such a fun way to add something unexpected to the tree.

The idea is wonderfully simple: take ordinary plastic dinosaur toys, add a small hanging eyelet, give them a coat of metallic gold paint, and suddenly they look like quirky little Christmas decorations rather than toys from the bottom of the playroom box.

This is also a great upcycled Christmas craft if you have old dinosaur figures that are no longer being played with. Instead of throwing them away, give them a festive makeover and turn them into ornaments you can bring out year after year.

I love the gold finish because it makes even inexpensive plastic dinosaurs look surprisingly decorative against green Christmas branches. You could also experiment with silver, copper, champagne gold or even glitter paint to match your own Christmas colour scheme.

Make a whole herd for the tree, add one to a wrapped gift as a reusable gift topper, or create a few as funny handmade ornaments for dinosaur-loving friends and family.

To begin with, place the eyelets into the dinosaurs. This can be done by screwing them into place. Try to find the middle weight of the dinosaur so that he hangs nice and straight.

Usually, the head or center body is a good place, but it will depend on your dinosaur. If you have trouble screwing in your hooks, you can use a fine drill to pre-drill the hole for the hook or use some jewelry wire to wrap it around the body of the dinosaur and create a hook at the top.

Spray paint the dinosaurs with a good quality gold paint and allow them to dry and seal them with a clear sealer.

Simply add some string or ribbon and hang them from your tree.