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Looking for a fun &inexpensive craft for the holidays perfect for kids and adults? Make these clothespin poinsettias with our full tutorial!
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Clothespin Poinsettias

Looking for a fun & inexpensive craft for the holidays perfect for kids and adults? Make these clothespin poinsettias with our full tutorial!
Course Crafts
Cuisine Christmas Crafts, Easy Crafts
Keyword Clothespin Craft, Poinsettia
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour
Cost $5 for 3

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Carefully remove the metal spring from 8 regular-sized clothespins. Glue 4 of the pairs back to back to form a dart shape. Glue the remaining 4 pairs together at the sharply angled section (where you squeeze to open) to form arrow shapes. Allow the pin pairs about 30 minutes to dry. Glue together as shown in the image.
    For the bottom flower grab 4 regular-sized clothespins and carefully remove the metal spring. Glue 4 of the pairs back to back to form a dart shape. Glue the remaining 4 pairs together at the sharply angled section (where you squeeze to open) to form arrow shapes.
  • Remove the spring from 8 smaller clothespins and glue together all 8 pairs into the arrow shape. Allow the pin pairs about 30 minutes to dry. Glue together as shown in the image.
    For the top flowers remove the spring from 8 smaller clothespins and glue together all 8 pairs into the arrow shape.
  • Paint your clothespins red, making sure to work paint into the nooks and crannies and allow to dry at least an hour to overnight.
    Paint your clothespins red, making sure to work paint into the nooks and crannies and allow to dry. An hour is good, overnight is best.
  • Apply small dabs of Tacky Glue onto the backside of the smaller flower shape. Rotate so that the petals alternate on the two layers and place together.
    It's a bit difficult to accurately gauge exactly where the two layers of pins are going to meet. I tried and failed and so my best effort was to put tiny dabs of Tacky Glue all around like you see above. Because Tacky Glue is thick and doesn't run it will just dry anywhere it doesn't connect with the layer below. It will also dry clear so that it isn't noticeable.
  • Glue a large gold ball into the center of the poinsettia.
    Paint your clothespins red, making sure to work paint into the nooks and crannies and allow to dry. An hour is good, overnight is best.
  • Go around in two layers around that large ball with a layer of medium, then smaller balls gluing together as necessary.
    Place medium-sized balls in each of the little gaps around the center gluing directly onto the pins. Finish with a last layer of the smaller balls glued to both the center ball and the two larger balls below that it touches.
  • Allow to dry flat overnight.