Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft for Kids

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Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

Spring is such a wonderful time of the year. It’s lovely to see the flowers blooming, see the green grass and spend time in the fresh air. I also love the lighter evenings.

Spring is a great time to go on a bug hunt, read about animals, bugs, and small creatures, and get crafting. Today on the blog we have a fun tutorial on how to make a clothespin butterfly. I hope you enjoy.

Either way it’ s a fun activity and one I’m sure you will enjoy making with the kids. This is a colourful and easy to make craft.

Enjoy!

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

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Supplies for This Butterfly Magnet Craft

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Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

How to Make a Butterfly Magnet

Begin by choosing a colourful selection of 1 inch and 1.5 inch pom poms and pipe cleaners.

Lay your clothespin flat with the clip facing up.

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

Starting from the bottom of your clothespin, glue four 1 inch pom poms in a row and then glue one 1.5 inch pom pom for your butterfly’s head.

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids


You will need two pipe cleaners for this step.

Bend your pipe cleaners in half and then cut your pipe cleaners at the bend.

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

Use two pipe cleaner halves to create the butterfly’s top wings.

Loop the wings and hot glue them into their shape. Cut the other pipe cleaner halves into four even sections.

Use two of the pipe cleaner sections to create the bottom wings.

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids


Glue your top and bottom butterfly wings onto the back of the clothespin.

I used the metal portion of the clothespin as a guideline.

I glued the top wings right above it and the bottom wings right below it.

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids


Glue a strong magnet on the back of your clothespin at the top.

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids


Turn your clothespin butterfly over and glue on google eyes.

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids


Take the last two sections of your pipe cleaners and make a loop at the top of them to create an antennae shape.

Glue them on top of the butterfly’s pom pom head.

Your butterfly is ready to take flight to a fridge near you!

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

Have Fun!

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

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Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids

This is a tutorial on how to make a clothes pin butterfly magnet craft

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Difficulty Easy

Materials

  • Clothespins
  • Pipe Cleaners
  • Google Eyes
  • Pom Poms
  • Magnets
  • Hot Glue

Tools

  • Scissors

Instructions

    Begin by choosing a colourful selection of 1 inch and 1.5 inch pom poms and pipe cleaners.

    Lay your clothespin flat with the clip facing up.

    Starting from the bottom of your clothespin, glue four 1 inch pom poms in a row and then glue one 1.5 inch pom pom for your butterfly’s head.

    You will need two pipe cleaners for this step.

    Bend your pipe cleaners in half and then cut your pipe cleaners at the bend.

    Use two pipe cleaner halves to create the butterfly’s top wings.

    Loop the wings and hot glue them into their shape. Cut the other pipe cleaner halves into four even sections.

    Use two of the pipe cleaner sections to create the bottom wings.

    Glue your top and bottom butterfly wings onto the back of the clothespin.

    I used the metal portion of the clothespin as a guideline.

    I glued the top wings right above it and the bottom wings right below it.

    Glue a strong magnet on the back of your clothespin at the top.

    Turn your clothespin butterfly over and glue on google eyes.

    Take the last two sections of your pipe cleaners and make a loop at the top of them to create an antennae shape.

    Glue them on top of the butterfly’s pom pom head.

    Your butterfly is ready to take a flight to a fridge near you!

    Have Fun!

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Angela Milnes is a Qualified Early Years Teacher who has specialised in Preschool and Kindergarten teaching. She has a wealth of experience teaching young children and is passionate about kids crafts and having fun as a family. Angela has also taught cooking skills and loves to share both family recipes and easy crafts here on The Inspiration Edit. Follow her on Pinterest!

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17 Comments

  1. Oh this is so simple yet so clever. Def a craft idea I’ll do with Timmy. He would really love this. I need to invest in a glue gun 🙂

  2. Such a lovely idea! 🙂 Love that something so ordinary can be made so beautiful and completely personalised when designing it

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