How to Make Insects From Clothes Pins
Clothespin insects are a crafty activity for kids and people of all ages who want a whimsical clip to add to their home. While the craft itself is not hard, choosing which insects you want to make can be. You can make the craft with a multitude of objects such as tissue paper, coffee filters, thin felt, magnets, pipe cleaners and paint along with the clothespin to make yourself a variety of these colorful household clips and decorations.
Things You'll Need
- Clothes pin
- Paint (varying depending on your insect type)
- Felt (your desired color for the wings)
- Floral wire
- Hot glue (optional)
- Pipe cleaner (optional)
Instructions
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Place the clothespin like this so that you paint the top. Paint one side of the clothespin your desired insect color. For example, paint this part yellow for a bee or blue, purple, orange or another color for a butterfly, etc.
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Paint the top (the side that clips) 1/6 (over the yellow) black after the body-color paint has dried. Paint black stripes down the remaining portion of the clothespin for a bee. For another insect, you can add a design if you wish, but it's not necessary.
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Paint two small white eyes on the top black section.
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Kids can use blunt-tip scissors to cut the felt but may need help. Cut your felt into a rounded rectangle shape. Tie the center of the rectangle with thin string or floral wire. It should resemble a bow-like shape.
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Insert the center of the felt bow through the wide part of the clothes pin (the part you push together to open the pin) up to where the clothespin's wire is. Glue with hot glue.
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Tips & Warnings
You can hot glue on pipe cleaner antennae, add a magnet or glue on small pipe cleaner legs for added whimsy. Instead of felt, you can also try using a coffee filter or tissue paper for the wings.
References
- Photo Credit clothespins image by Sergey Goruppa from Fotolia.com clothespin image by koi88 from Fotolia.com scissors image by Gina Smith from Fotolia.com
