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!
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Contents
Supplies For This Butterfly Magnet Craft
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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.
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 flight to a fridge near you!
Have Fun!
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Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft For Kids
This is a tutorial on how to make a clothes pin butterfly magnet craft
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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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 🙂
thanks. Glad you like it! Glue guns are really useful.
these looks amazing! Very effective idea x
Thanks. I’m glad you like it.
These are very cute. I have to try them with Caspian when he is a little older 🙂
ThANKS. iT’S A FUN ACTIVITY!
Such a lovely idea! 🙂 Love that something so ordinary can be made so beautiful and completely personalised when designing it
I’m glad you like it. It is a fun and good craft to make.
Such a cute idea, and it’s so easy, I’d love to do this with my kids on a wet afternoon. Thanks for the fab idea!
Your most welcome. 🙂
I love my glue gun and I love the simplicity in this idea! Thanks for sharing.x
thanks. it is simple but very effective.
Oh wow so cute and simple to make! Great idea
These are great and would make a great decoration for a girls bedroom to hold pictures of friends etc. You make the tutorial very straightforward and easy to follow x
thanks Claire. Glad you like it!
This looks so cute. Finally I have something to do with all the pegs we have that keep rusting etc. My daughter will love doing this. X
i bet she would love it!