Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments

20 November

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My mom and I decorated my booths at the antique mall for Christmas. You can see what it looks like here: Antique Mall Booth Update for Christmas 


Doing that helped get me in the mood for some Christmas crafts 😄


Today I'm sharing some cute ornaments I made from recycled Little Golden Books.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments



Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments

Let me just start by saying I've received a lot of hate for this post. Some people don't like that I used vintage Little Golden books for this project. The books that I am using have already been ruined by little kids who have colored all over some of the pages, and torn others. One book was missing the entire back cover. I am of the opinion that I am saving them from the landfill when they are in that condition. However, if you like these ornaments and want to make some without using a real book, you can make photocopies of the pages from your books or even find them online.


On to the project! Here are the supplies you'll need to make these:



I found some wood slice ornaments on the clearance aisle at JoAnn's at 70% off so I couldn't pass them up even though this project hadn't even formulated in my mind yet.


I had some old Little Golden Books in my craft room so I thought it would be fun to use the two together to make some cute Christmas ornaments.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments



The ornaments I found had jute hangers on them which I removed. You may need to drill holes if yours don't already have them.


You could also use round paper mache ornaments for these.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments



Find a page in your book where the ornament covers a good portion and trace around it.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments



Use Modge-Podge to adhere them to the wood slices.


TIP: The key to having no wrinkles when using Modge-Podge is to coat the surface of your item AND the backside of the paper piece with a coat then use an old credit card to smooth out any wrinkles.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments



I also cut out some of the words that matched the images I chose and added them to the backs of each ornament.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments



Add a hanger and a jingle bell. I used colored baker's twine and colored jingle bells for the hangers on my ornaments.


You can use jute twine, yarn, etc.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments


Here are the finished ornaments! I think the vintage children's images are so cute. You could use any children's books, they don't have to be Little Golden Books.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments


These were easy and fun to make, something even young children could make with a little help!


Last year I created a banner out of Little Golden books.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments


It sold at my space at the antique mall.


Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments


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