14 DIY Items Using Toy Animals

Last week BuzzFeed.com came up with a list of 14 cool DIY items using toy animals!  There are some great ideas here, including some things your kids will love!

 

Party Cups with Animal Holders

 

Animal Magnets

 

Animal Storage Jars

All you need is some Schleich figurines, and your imagination and you're set!

Click here to see BuzzFeed's full list of ideas, complete with links with instructions!

Animal Figurines Arts & Crafts

We come across a lot of great animal-themed crafts and DIY projects on Pinterest - so many so that it was time to round some of them up and share them with you, our faithful blog readers. Today we're focusing on projects that use animal figurines.

Make colorful animal art by painting your figurines and attaching them to colored canvases. This could work well for a kid's room or even in the hallway, dining or living rooms if you went with a muted color scheme.

Storage containers instantly become whimsical and fun when you add a few animal figurines to the top!

A few modifications can make your figurines the perfect way to remind your children to do certain things, from brushing their teeth to making their bed.

Perfect for any animal-themed party you're throwing, these tiny gift boxes are a fun way to give favors to your guests.

For kids or the grown-up animal lover, these animal jewelry holders are perfect! And this is just one of several creative figurines crafts the blogger from Little Gray Fox came up with.

The Pleasant Note blogger also had several ideas, including turning your figurines into plant holders, shelf hooks and picture holders!

And once you finish up your crafts, don’t forget to head over to TheJungleStore.com to replenish your figurine collection! We have everything from animals to fantasy characters, historical figures to dinosaurs.

Educational Toys: Safari Limited Toobs

It's a sad truth that educational toys aren't always fun. Although they might have seemed entertaining to the toy developers, they fall flat when presented to actual kids who, if they have to learn, want it to be fun.

The Toobs from Safari Limited do NOT fall into this category. Their realistic mini figurine sets are the type of toys that encourage imagination and play while still presenting educational opportunities. The Toobs cover a variety of themes, from animals to vehicles, dinosaurs to historic humans. Take a look at a few of our most popular Toobs.

Space Shuttle Toob

 On The Farm Toob

Coral Reef Toob

Knights And Dragon Toob

Dinosaurs Toob

Cats Toob

Toobs are the perfect toys to take with you anywhere, since the figurines come in a resuable plastic tube for easy and portable storage! They're also great for dioramas or educational projects and presentations. AND, each Toob retails for only $9.98! To see our entire selection of Toobs from Safari Limited, click here.

Show Off Those Fabulous Figurines!

We were looking around Pinterest the other day and came across this photo that we wanted to share with our readers. It's a great way to artistically display some of your child's (or your) favorite animal figurines on a shelf or desk top.

The glass jar next to the figurines gave us another decorating idea: Fill clear jars or canisters with all of your child's figurines. It's easy storage, keeps them contained and will look great on a shelf (as evidenced by the picture below)!

Want to see more ideas on decorating with animal toys and items? Then check out our Pinterest board!

Images via here and here.