CLOTHESPIN CRAFTS FOR KIDS : Ideas for Arts & Crafts Activities & Instructions for Making Cool Projects with Recycled Clothes Pins for Children, Teens, and Preschoolers
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Below you will find many arts and crafts projects for kids made with recycled clothespins. You would be suprised at how many cool crafts activities there are for children to make with clothespins such as jewelry, cars, creatures, people, and other fun crafts.
Making Clothespin Dolls
There are all sorts of ways to dress clothespins up to make wonderful dolls. For the one shown in the above picture, use the clothespins with flat sides—they give more surface for the head and face. Mark in the face with ink or colored pencil. Glue some tiny bits of yarn on top for hair. For the doll's dress, fold a paper cupcake wrappers in 4. Cut a small hole at the center, just large enough to go over the head, and slash it, as shown in Figure a, for the sleeves and skirt. Use a piece of ribbon for a sash—to hold the dress in place—and tie a tiny piece at each wrist.The doll can be dressed in much the same way by using a circle of crepe paper instead of the paper cupcake wrappers. Fold and cut the crepe paper as directed above, and stretch the crepe paper around the bottom of the dress to make it ruffle and stand out. To make the dolls stand up, bend a narrow strip of cardboard, as shown in Figure b, to provide a sturdy base.How to Make Miniature Barrels with Clothespins
You can use wooden clothespins or platic clothespins...however the wooden clothespins are the ones that make the barrel look real.To make this craft, find a nut-sized can and some clothespins. Firstly, remove the springs from the clothespins by holding it in your hands (image a) and just twist apart. You will be using one half of a clothespin for each wooden stick you see around the can in the final picture above. Place all of the clothespins around the can (the outside of the clothespin is facing outwards) and hold it in place with 2 rubber bands...fitting one in each groove. Then when all the clothespins are covering the can, then wrap copper wire around the clothespins...again inside the grooves. Twist the wires together to hold them in place. You would use pliers to do this...you might need Mom or Dad to help you with this.
Make a Cute Giraffe with Clothespin Legs
This is a great craft for Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, and Children in the Earlier grades. Firstly, print out either acolor giraffe or black and white giraffe diagram. Then cut out the giraffe on the black outline (picture a). If you printed out a black and white pattern, then you might want to color it at this time. Then grab the giraffe's neck and lightly bend it forwards and backwards like you would a paper fan (it is called an accordion fold). Cut a piece of yarn or string and glue or tape it to the back of the giraffe as a tail. Then lastly, take 2 clothespins and attach them to the bottom of your giraffe. You now have a standing giraffe. A fun thing to do is to write a message on the folds of the neck...then when you pull the neck upwards, you can see the message. When you push the neck down, you no longer see the message any more.
Clothespin Camels
To make these clothespin camels, just print out either a black and white diagram or a color diagram and then cut it out and hook on 2 clothespins for legs.
Clothespin Donkeys or Mules
To make these donkeys just print out either a black and white or color pattern and then cut him out and hook on 2 clothespins for legs.
