My mom and I decorated my booths at the antique mall for Christmas. You can see what it looks like here: Antique Mall Booth Update for Christmas 

Doing that helped get me in the mood for some Christmas crafts 😄

Today I'm sharing some cute ornaments I made from recycled Little Golden Books.

Recycled Little Golden Book Ornaments

Let me just start by saying I've received a lot of hate for this post. Some people don't like that I used vintage Little Golden books for this project. The books that I am using have already been ruined by little kids who have colored all over some of the pages, and torn others. One book was missing the entire back cover. I am of the opinion that I am saving them from the landfill when they are in that condition. However, if you like these ornaments and want to make some without using a real book, you can make photocopies of the pages from your books or even find them online.

On to the project! Here are the supplies you'll need to make these:

I found some wood slice ornaments on the clearance aisle at JoAnn's at 70% off so I couldn't pass them up even though this project hadn't even formulated in my mind yet.

I had some old Little Golden Books in my craft room so I thought it would be fun to use the two together to make some cute Christmas ornaments.

The ornaments I found had jute hangers on them which I removed. You may need to drill holes if yours don't already have them.

You could also use round paper mache ornaments for these.

Find a page in your book where the ornament covers a good portion and trace around it.

Use Modge-Podge to adhere them to the wood slices.

TIP: The key to having no wrinkles when using Modge-Podge is to coat the surface of your item AND the backside of the paper piece with a coat then use an old credit card to smooth out any wrinkles.

I also cut out some of the words that matched the images I chose and added them to the backs of each ornament.

Add a hanger and a jingle bell. I used colored baker's twine and colored jingle bells for the hangers on my ornaments.

You can use jute twine, yarn, etc.

Here are the finished ornaments! I think the vintage children's images are so cute. You could use any children's books, they don't have to be Little Golden Books.