Make a grasshopper with this simple clothes pin craft.
Colorful Butterflies(Ages 3-8)
Transform an everyday household object—a coffee filter!—into a colorful butterfly.
Clothespin Chip Clips(Ages 3-8)
Turn clothespins into fun and functional bag clips using whatever spare materials you have in your crafting kit! Better yet, give each of your children a personalized bag clip so they can lay claim to any snacks they don't want their siblings to eat.
Tablecloth Clip Creatures(Ages 5-8)
Make these little critters using paper, pompoms, and clothes pins--they'll be perfect for keeping your picnic cloth pinned to the table!
Clothespin Puppets(Ages 3-8)
Make colorful clothespin puppets using spare crafting materials and googly eyes!
Clothespin Reindeer(Ages 3-8)
These clothespin reindeer make for a fun holiday-themed crafting project and add a heartwarming homemade touch to your holiday decorations!
Paper Towel Flower(Ages 3-6)
Watercolors on paper towels come out so beautiful, almost like tie-dye. It's fun to see the colors spread as you paint. We paint this way often, but recently decided to turn our colorful towels into flowers!
Guatamalan Worry Doll(Ages 3-8)
Traditionally these dolls are a bit over one inch tall; these are quite a bit larger -- easier for young children to make!
Tell your troubles to your doll before you go to bed, and when placed under the bed or pillow the doll will work to take the worries away.
8 Quick and Easy Clothespin Crafts
Need a quick crafting project to fill a rainy afternoon? If you have a drawer full of clothespins and a few common crafting supplies, you have everything you need to hang boredom out to dry! These quick and easy clothespin crafts can be adapted to work with whatever crafting supplies you happen to have on hand. Craft fuzzy picnic clip critters using pom-poms and pipe cleaners. Dye coffee filters to create colorful clothespin butterflies. Create your own Guatemalan worry doll using traditional clothespins and yarn, or choose from any of the other simple crafting projects on this list!