Purchase enough wooden clothespins with rounded heads to make the desired number of ornaments.
Step2
Draw faces onto the round portion of your clothespins with a black, fine-line permanent marker.
Step3
Use fabric scraps or brightly colored felt pieces to fashion clothing for your clothespins. Turn a strip of felt into a scarf. Create a cape fashioned from a glued-on piece of fabric. Make hats and other accessories out of fabric scraps.
Step4
Make a clothespin angel ornament by gluing lace scraps onto the ornament for clothing. Paint tiny cardboard wings white and add glitter; glue these to your angels. Fashion a halo with thin, glitter-covered craft wire.
Step5
Give your ornament hair by affixing doll hair or strands of yarn to the top of the clothespin.
Step6
Use a variety of acrylic paint colors to embellish your clothespin ornaments.
Step7
Take a 5-inch or 6-inch piece of ribbon and knot the ends. Glue the knot onto the back of the ornament, and allow the glue to dry.
Step8
Hang your clothespin ornaments or set them among the branches of the tree.
Tips & Warnings
You can use the pinch-type of wooden clothespins for ornaments, too. Just make sure to cover the top portion of the clothespin ' the place where the two pieces of wood meet ' with glued-on yarn for hair or a doll-sized hat.
Use thin cardboard from a cereal box to make angel wings or other accents for your ornaments.
Use small thumbtacks to affix ribbon to the back of the ornament. Insert the tack very gently into the clothespin head so the wood won't split.
on 11/22/2005
For the angel's dress, use kinked decorative paper packing material (found in gift baskets). For her halo, use a metallic garland with small stars. Cut cardboard wings edged in gold, or fold wide ribbon to make wings.
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Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 For the angel's dress, use kinked decorative paper packing material (found in gift baskets). For her halo, use a metallic garland with small stars. Cut cardboard wings edged in gold, or fold wide ribbon to make wings.