Clothespin Butterfly Craft
Our Clothespin Butterfly Craft is a beautiful spring butterfly craft made with not much more than a clothespin and a pair of colorful pipe cleaners. For such a simple craft, though, there are so many possibilities with how to create and make it your own.
Pink and purple or purple and orange, the choice is up to you. You can make your butterflies as colorful and vibrant, and unique even, as you can imagine. Or at least as colorful as the colors of available pipe cleaners. And there are some bright, shiny colors of pipe cleaners available.
Pipe Cleaner Clothespin Butterfly Craft
To make this butterfly craft you will need wood clothespins, pipe cleaners in an array of colors, acrylic paints in assorted colors, a black pen, and scissors.
Spring Butterfly Clothespin Craft Supplies Needed
- Wood clothespin
- Pipe cleaners – assorted colors
- Acrylic paint – assorted colors
- Black pen
- Scissors
Butterfly Clothespin Craft Step by Step Directions
Begin by painting your clothespins in whatever colors you’d like.
Let the paint dry completely.
While the paint is drying, get started on the wings. For this gather 2 different colors of pipe cleaners. Bring each together in a circle and twist to secure.
Now, bring the circle together and twist each into an 8 pattern.
Twist both of the 8’s together at the middle.
Then, clasp the pipe cleaners in a clothespin.
Next, take another pipe cleaner in whatever color you’d like and cut in half. Fold in the middle to form a V shape.
Curl the ends with your fingers to form antennae.
Clasp the antennae at the top of the clothespin. You can use hot glue to fully secure it if you’d like, but we left ours unglued.
Finally, use the black pen to form the simplest, smallest 2 black dots for eyes and a mouth.
We also drew lines across the body for a bit more design.
Such a lovely spring butterfly craft! And so fun to play with pipe cleaners!
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More Butterfly Crafts for Kids
Looking for more butterfly crafts? Check out our Craft Stick Handprint Butterfly Craft, Crayon Resist Watercolor Butterfly Craft, Envelope Butterfly Craft, and our Butterfly Snack Bags to name just a few of our many spring crafts for kids at Our Kid Things!
Clothespin Butterfly Craft
A beautiful and colorful butterfly craft made with clothespins and pipe cleaners
Materials
- Wood clothespin
- Pipe cleaners - assorted colors
- Acrylic paint - assorted colors
- Black pen
- Scissors
Instructions
- Begin by painting your clothespins in whatever colors you’d like.
- Let the paint dry completely.
- While the paint is drying, get started on the wings. For this gather 2 different colors of pipe cleaners. Bring each together in a circle and twist to secure.
- Now, bring the circle together and twist each into an 8 pattern.
- Twist both of the 8’s together at the middle.
- Then, clasp the pipe cleaners in a clothespin.
- Next, take another pipe cleaner in whatever color you’d like and cut in half.
- Fold in the middle to form a V shape.
- Curl the ends with your fingers to form antennae.
- Clasp the antennae at the top of the clothespin.
- Finally, use the black pen to form the simplest, smallest 2 black dots for eyes and a mouth.
- We also drew lines across the body for a bit more design.
Notes
You can use hot glue to fully secure your butterfly in the clothespin if you'd like, but we left ours unglued.