Shark Ornaments

I was searching all over trying to find Christmas ornaments for my husband and sons.  Nothing really spoke to me.  I was looking thru my desk for some paper when I came across some Lego sharks I had stashed for reasons unknown.  Now many Saturdays are spent watching chew-em-ups on SyFi.  I decided to make my own gift ornaments.

I gathered all the materials I thought I would need.

Lego shark figures
Pipe cleaners
pony beads
24 gauge wire
wire cutters
ice pick
eye bolts
tiny santa figure

I ended up adding

plastic cutting board
hammer
nail
large screw hook
krazy glue
glue gun and glue stick
nail polish
needle nose pliers

The most difficult task was putting in the eye bolts.

I used the ice pick for a starter hole and followed that up with a hammer and nail.

Then I took the screw hook (sorry no picture) and used that to enlarge the starter hole.

Finally I took the actual eye screw and  screwed it in.  It took a little preserverance and the needle nose pliers for the final turns, but finally the eye was in.

The fun part was adding decorations.

I used the pipe cleaners and twisted them to make a wreath.  I then cut a length of 24 gauge wire to attach it to the shark

The next shark got a string of lights.  I cut a length of 24 gauge wire and twisted some pony beads in it.  The I secured on end of the wire to the eye screw and twisted it around the body of the body of the shark.

I still had one more shark to go, but I decided I needed to add the eyes to all the sharks and then some artistic blood spatter to the great white.  I purchased some nail polish at the dollar store for that purpose.

Time to finish the final shark.  I carefully chipped away at the base if the mini Santa.  I tried to use the crazy glue to place it in the shark's mouth, but that didn't work well.  I broke out my very old glue gun which has seen much better days and filled the area behind where the Santa was to be placed with glue.  I placed the Santa as I wanted him and filled in with more glue.

Now I am all done with three off the wall ornaments for my family.

I'll have to see what other Lego animals I can track down for next year.