Comments on: Vintage Happy Meal Toy Ornaments

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 22:09:08 +0000

In reply to Kathy A.

Kathy,
That’s a great idea about heating a nail to make small holes. I too use needle nose pliers to hold small things! 🙂 Your idea for an entire small tree sounds fabulous!

gail

By: Kathy A

Kathy A — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:33:57 +0000

I enjoyed seeing your ornaments. I have “drilled” holes in plastic by heating a nail over my gas stove’s flame (or laying the nail on an electric burner) to make holes in Legg’s eggs and other plastic items. The smell is AWFUL so it prob should be done with active ventilation! I use my (not antique) needlenose pliers to hold the nail; I also use the pliers when I have to “hold” a tiny nail–black and blue fingers hurt! I have collected the Madame Alexander dolls from MacD’s but I just shove an ornament hanger in the backs of their outfits. I have hung my small international dolls on the Christmas tree; someday I want to do an entire small tree with them!

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:39:22 +0000

In reply to Jennifer Fouts.

Jennifer,

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to leave a comment! 🙂 Funny that you remember all of these.

gail

By: Jennifer Fouts

Jennifer Fouts — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 02:22:44 +0000

Oh, this is a GREAT idea…I have lots of these too that I have collected over the years. I even have that same Garfield the car figurine from way back when. I’d say 70s to 80s is the era of most of my collectibles. I remember Mighty Mouse too…seems he was on all the health food snacks. I know most of these characters were made out of something like hard rubber or vinyl if they can be pierced dasily. Also like how you showed the way to stand up the figurines so the cushions would go in straight…nice job there 👍

By: Cheri

Cheri — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 01:52:00 +0000

What a cute idea! Wish I had kept some of my son’s toys and done something like that.

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 23:28:04 +0000

In reply to girlfromwva.

That is a GREAT idea!!!

Adults… just oversized kids, right?

gail

By: girlfromwva

girlfromwva — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 14:50:10 +0000

what a wonderful idea! i think even my adult kids would enjoy this for the ornament exchange!

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 14:44:29 +0000

In reply to elicbxn.

Well, I don’t have kids either, but I fell in love with this idea as soon as Jamie told me about it! Seriously, the very next day I was in the basement “shopping” for happy meal toys!
You could do what Jamie did, and get new “popular” action figures. 🙂

gail

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 14:42:54 +0000

In reply to Julie Rose.

I have a whole basement of “waiting for them to be worth something!”

Seriously! Andy teases me all the time, says “I bet you already have that in your basement”

gail

By: Jennie Wallick

Jennie Wallick — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:56:59 +0000

Great idea! If you don’t have a tub of these toys, they’re easy to come up with. Goodwill sells them by the bag. Other thrifts do too.

Our tree has been all soft small stuffed characters since our 4 year old grandson was a toddler. Some of the ornaments are from when my oldest daughter, his mom, was a baby, and she and I made more when my youngest was a tree destroyer. I think the most important thing is that your tree stand isn’t flimsy, or narrower than the tree. Toddlers learning to walk or are steady but grab onto the tree to get something and flop down can bring a tree over on themselves. Use a weighted stand or what we did 30 years ago was a piece of plywood, I covered it with red fabric, and my husband stapled the tree stand to the board, when we got a new tree he used pipe hanger straps to hold it down.