If you have extra clothes pins you never use there are lots of great things you can make for your home. The clothes pin projects are inexpensive, easy to make, and can be fabulous gifts for birthdays or other occasions. If you dont have any clothes pins you can purchase regular or miniature ones at many discount department stores or craft stores.
Change the look of your curtains by gluing any number of items onto clothes pins. For example, craft stores carry miniature straw hats that can quickly be turned into an embellishment for your tie-backs. Fill the little hat with potpourri and glue a piece of lace over it. Glue on a miniature clothes pin and its ready to attach to the tie-back of your curtain. There are many different things you can use in this manner. Painted wooden shapes, small metallic pieces, or even little ceramic novelties can all be used, with a clothespin, to change the look of your curtains in seconds.
Do something similar for your lampshades. Glue a craft butterfly onto a mini clothespin then clip it to your lampshade. The little butterflies can be clipped onto other things, too, such as a potted plant. Craft stores are full of other things you can clip to lampshades and plants, such as a giant ladybug. Paint a yardstick a solid color and allow to dry. Glue clothes pins across the yardstick, vertically. Space the clothes pins equally across the stick with the mouth of the clothes pins facing downward. Glue button magnets onto the backside of the stick. Hang the yardstick horizontally on the refrigerator and use the clothes pins to hold pictures, notes and more. You can also hang the yardstick vertically with the clothes pins glued on horizontally. The magnetic yardstick can show off kids school work and more. Screw the clothespin yardstick to the back of your closet and you can hang ties, scarves and more. Cut strips of magnetic sheeting and stick them to one side of a clothes pin. Place the magnetic clothes pins on the refrigerator to hold notes and photos. Use regular or miniature clothes pins for this project. Paint the clothes pins, if you want, before adding the magnetic sheeting. Glue any number of flat items to mini clothes pins then clip them onto a Christmas tree. Cut out pictures your children have colored in a coloring book and glue the pictures to a piece of cardboard. Cut the cardboard to the shape of the coloring book cutout. Use a clothes pin on the back of the cardboard to clip the pictures onto the tree. Or, let kids cut shapes from Fun Foam and clip them to the tree with clothes pins. There are many different things you can make and clip to the tree. Theres a fun photo display that you can make using clothes pins. Use a Styrofoam disk as the base for the display. Spray paint the base gold. Use a small dowel rod to hold the pictures. Push the dowel into the center of the Styrofoam disk and glue it in place. Use hot glue to fasten clothes pins down the length of the dowel. Glue the first clothes pin towards the top of the dowel, then glue the next clothes pin a couple inches below that. Continue gluing on the clothes pins but turn each clothes pin to face the opposite direction of the previous one. When youre finished you can simply clip your photos to the clothes pins. If you want, you can add a topper to the dowel, like a painted wooden star or a plastic novelty. Each of these crafts work only with the type of clothes pins you squeeze to open. Clothes pins that simply slip over the clothes line are not suitable for these particular projects. The clothespin crafts are so simple to make that children will have a great time creating with them. Purchase some mini clothes pins, or use ones you already have, to create some fabulous new things for your home. Youll love the finished projects and youll love knowing they cost little to make.
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