Supplies for Arts & Crafts With Clothespins

Series Summary

Arts and crafts is the uniquely, easily available form of art that almost anyone can do. Unlike sculpting or carving arts and crafts usually only require supplies that most people have laying around in the house. The term “crafts” infers that many of these activities were actual professions at one time. The arts and crafts movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries really brought this art form to the forefront of the art world. The major difference in arts and crafts and other “professional” forms of art is that there are no accepted rules or understood methodologies behind arts and crafts. It's purely the idea that something can be created with what is lying around.

Are you one of those MacGyver type people who can make anything with anything? Well you're one of the lucky one because most aren't. For those of us that need a bit more help this free video series is perfect. There are over a dozen great crafts ideas all using clothespins. You will learn how to make dolls and ornaments as well as more more useful and practical things such as magnets and cardholders. Take a look at these videos and be creative. There's no limit to the things you can create!

Video Transcript

"My name is Courtney Hester on behalf of Expert Village in this series we are going to be making some crafts using clothes pins. The first thing we will need to do is assemble some materials for our crafts. We need some round tip clothespins, round top clothespins, we need some clothespins with springs that open, and we need some flat sided clothespins, we also need some tiny wood sticks, some jumbo craft sticks, tissue paper, felt pieces. We also need several different felt pieces, different decorations and some just plain pieces. We are going to need a dry sheet, some yarn, some pom poms, paint. You could use acrylic paint or temper paint. We are goign to need some magnetic strips, we are going to need some pipe cleaner, we would also need some craft wire for perferable already green, we are going to need a little wooden spoil, some straight pins, some safety pins, some wiggle eyes. We would need some prepainted wood designs I'm going to be using bugs and we would also need some gold chord. Last we are going to need a hot glue gun or some tacky glue, markers, some paint brushes and scissors. "