How Do You Make Clothespin Reindeer Christmas Ornaments?

Homemade ornaments give Christmas a homespun quality that cannot be purchased. Clothespin reindeer ornaments can be hung on the tree or used to decorate gifts. Miniature hair, multi-colored pom poms, and goggle eyes can be used to create reindeer that even amuse Santa.

Homemade Christmas reindeer ornaments are a perfect way to bring a little bit of yesterday to your holiday season. Gather three clothes pins, wood glue, ribbon and c-clamp to create your reindeer. Place two wood clothes pins together so the prongs create four reindeer legs.

Turn the third clothespin upside down so the prongs point upward. Place all three clothespins together. Look at your Christmas ornament.

The clothespins should resemble a reindeer with four legs, two antlers and an area for the reindeer's face. The thick portion of all three clothespins should be aligned with four prongs facing downward and two prongs reaching for the sky. Place your ribbon behind the face of the reindeer.

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These miniature clothespin people make a charming addition to your Christmas tree. The ornaments are easy to make - the whole family can help. Step 1 Purchase enough wooden clothespins with rounded heads to make the desired number of ornaments.

Step 2 Draw faces onto the round portion of your clothespins with a black, fine-line permanent marker. Step 3 Use fabric scraps or brightly colored felt pieces to fashion clothing for your clothespins. Turn a strip of felt into a scarf.

Create a cape fashioned from a glued-on piece of fabric. Make hats and other accessories out of fabric scraps. Step 4 Make a clothespin angel ornament by gluing lace scraps onto the ornament for clothing.

Paint tiny cardboard wings white and add glitter; glue these to your angels. Fashion a halo with thin, glitter-covered craft wire. Step 5 Give your ornament hair by affixing doll hair or strands of yarn to the top of the clothespin.

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This easy craft can involve the whole family. The reindeer made from clothespins look great on your tree and make wonderful gifts for friends and neighbors. Here's how to make them.

I leave the clothespins natural, but some people like to paint them brown. Glue two clothespins together to form the legs of the reindeer. Glue another clothespin to the legs, but it goes upward to form the reindeer's head and antlers.

Note the proportions in the picture. Drill a hole in the reindeer to thread through the hanger. An adult will need to do this part.

The thread for hanging could also be glued between the head and body (then no hole is needed). Glue on the googley eyes. Glue on the red pom-pom nose (or the red bead).

Cut out and glue on the felt for a holly leaf accent above the eyes. Glue on some white felt for his tail. More.

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