MUSExDIY
an article by EMMA HOFFMAN
1 With metallic colours and Hawaiian prints on the horizon of spring style, I’ve been inspired to combine the seemingly divergent aesthetics of futuristic and prehistoric into a handy DIY. If you’re looking to organize all those memos and papers before exams roll around, or just to get crafty and spice up your bulletin board, check out this quirky rendering of everyone’s favourite primordial giant lizard—the dinosaur. Get ready to party like it’s 3012, or 12000 years ago, with these metallic dinosaur tacks and magnets. You will need some plastic toy dinosaurs, or any other types of small plastic critters, which you can get from your local dollar store.You will also need some thumb tacks, magnet tape, hot glue, and opaque paint or spray paint in a groovy metallic colour.
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Paint each dinosaur so that its surface is fully covered. You may want to wear rubber gloves for this step so as not to ruin one’s manicure.
This is an optional step, but you can use a toothbrush to create a Jackson Pollack-esque, paint-splattered effect on the toy once the spray paint has dried.
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Either use a hot glue gun to attach the dinosaur to a thumb-tack, or attach a piece of magnet tape to the back of the toy for some freaky fridge fun!
Once everything has dried, use these dynamite dinos to get ORGANIZED!
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