Spring is definitely a time for creative ideas. There are many different materials you can use to create something beautiful at home and refresh your house.
Crafting with clothespins in spring is an exciting idea and we'll show you a few simple and fresh crafts.
DIY necklace with clothespins and beads
Materials:
Clothespins
Beads (with large holes)
Necklace or ribbon
- First, take the clothespins apart. Separate the spring part from the wooden part.
- Before you begin, make sure your bead is the same size or smaller than the feather and has a large hole.
- Next, use pliers or your fingers to pry open the uncoiled end of the clothespin spring. Insert one side of the feather into one of the bead's holes. Bend the other side so that it fits into the corresponding hole on the bead.
- Wiggle the bead and feather a little to align the ends of the feather. Even if they don't fit together perfectly, that's not a problem!
- Thread the chain or ribbon through the end of the spring and voila! You made a cute spring decoration!
Crafts with clothespins in spring: flower wreath
Materials:
Wooden clothespins
Metal wire wreath frame
Hot glue gun
Hot glue
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Artificial flowers – daisies or other spring flowers
plastic bowls
Choose yourself,what spring flowersyou would like to have in your wreath, and also choose what color you would like to use for the brackets to express your style and mood.
- Start by disassembling the clothespins. To do this you need to remove the wire springs.
- Two pieces remain per bracket. On the backs you will see a small wooden slot. Make sure these slots face each other and hot glue the two pieces together.
- First, prepare the plastic containers and clothespins.
- Make sure your containers are large enough to accommodate all of the staples so that the paint covers them completely.
- Fill each of the containers with paint. Spray and acrylic paints work well. For 1 liter of water you will need 150-180 ml of dye.
- If you make a more concentrated solution, you get a darker color.
- The clothespins must remain in the containers for 24 hours to allow the paint to penetrate the wood and produce an even color. Then let the clips dry on paper plates or on the clothesline for a few hours.
- However, since you may need to apply multiple coats to get a rich and even color, you will need to wait for each coat to dry completely.
- Once the clothespins are colored and dried, you can decorate them with small white dots using the white correction fluid applied with a brush.
- The dots are only applied to the visible side of the brackets.
- It will take you less than an hour to design all parts of this magnificent wreath.
- Start by placing the clothespins on the wire frame until all the clips are in place and you have a perfect wreath.
- The number of brackets also varies depending on how tightly you attach them together.
- On the inner circle you can only use one colorUse clothespins, the other color remains for the outer circle. (If you want the wreath to be a solid color, you can of course paint the brackets a solid color). The clothespins are long enough to clamp two circles of wire. Not only do you hide the wires, but you also ensure that the brackets are firmly connected to the frame.
- A tip: If you want to hang the wreath in a place where it might come into contact with rain, seal the clothespins with Polycrylic (water-based) or Polyeurthane (oil-based).
- You can easily attach the artificial flowers to the wire by clamping them between the clothespins. There are many ways to arrange the flowers and all of them will look very good.
Make glittering clothespin dragonflies
Materials:
Wooden clothespins
red color
Sponge brush
Glitter shakers
Glue
Glittering tulle
small black beads
Hot glue gun
Scissors
- First, paint your wooden clothespins red paint. Set them aside to dry. When the paint is dry, use a sponge brush to coat the tops of the brackets with glue. Then sprinkle glitter onto the glue. Allow it to dry completely.
- Heat up your hot glue gun. Glue two small black beads to the sides of the bracket as eyes.
- Cut a piece of glitter tulle from the roll about 6 inches long. Fold the tulle in half and then in half again. Scrunch up the middle of the tulle a little. Open the clip, put some hot glue on the inside, place the tulle on top, and then close the clip on the tulle.
- Use scissors to cut a round shape around the bottom of the wings to make them look more like the shape of dragonfly wings.
- Your glittery clothespin dragonfly is ready! You can turn them into refrigerator magnets by gluing magnets to the back of the clothespins.Crafting with clothespinsSpring can be real fun! Now you can hang this cute craft on the fridge in style.
