Butterfly and Dragonfly Clothespin Craft

I’m longing to dazzle you with a blog post that has homemade jewelry or reinvent something with scrap wood or a wonderful garment made from a curtain and an old pair of jeans…sigh. But alas, between work and volunteering at the kids school there is no time for more than making a pipe cleaner butterfly and dragonfly. Oh well, its good to take a few minutes out of this busy, busy week for some crafting.

For this super cute project you will need:

• 2 pipe cleaners
• a clothes pin
• 2 small googly eyes
• paint, sparkly glue, gems to decorate it
• hot glue gun or white craft glue

To get started take a pipe cleaner and shape it into a circle. Bend and twist the ends to close the circle. Repeat this step with a second pipe cleaner.

Pinch the circles in the middle and twist the pipe cleaners. Twist again to form the middle of the butterflies wings. As you can see I arranged the pipe cleaners so the yellow made the upper wings and the blue made the bottom wings.

This middle of the wings will be pinched by the clothes pin when opened. You can do that now or wait until after you finish gluing everything on.

Add a dab of hot glue to the small googly eyes and secure them on the clothes peg. I added some gems from a sheet of stickers. This is a pretty easy project even for youngsters. They should use regular white glue and not hot glue guns.

One option to change the wings, is pinch it in so its heart shaped. This way it’s a bit more butterfly-like. Narrow wings look more like dragonflies. Add what you like to decorate the critters. We could easily turn this into a fridge magnet by gluing on a magnet to the back.

Have fun with this easy project and have a super day!

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