Christmas Tree Penguins

You may remember my penguins from a couple of weeks back, made using plastic penguins from a bath toy game ……. well, the extra bits I ordered to finish them of properly have arrived from China (they only took 17 days to get here) and I am so chuffed!

I ordered 100 wooden fish beads which cost me £3.65 and 80 pink, white, blue and black hats for £5.04. Far more than I needed for just nine penguins, but I am determined to use them all up, if not for this Christmas, then next.

The first thing I decided to do to give the penguins some extra festive pizazz was add a sprinkling of ultra fine, translucent glitter to their Ranger Enamel Accent tummy's.

Then screw eye hooks were screwed into the top of the hats, followed by a tiny punched holly leaf and trio of red, flat back pearls to decorate.  When dry the hats were glued securely using E8000 to the top of the penguins heads.

It took me a while to work out how to hang the fish from the penguins, originally I wanted a string of them, but that didn’t quite work, so in the end after giving each fish two clear, flat back gem eyes (one on each side),  I  opted for a single, horizontally hanging fish to match whatever colour hat I gave each penguin. 

I think they work??!!!???

So, for next year ………. I am thinking of sandwiching a couple or three average sized wooden dominoes together so that they are deep enough to take a hat, making another version of the same penguin idea …… if only to justify the surplus fish beads and hats I’ve now got!