Clothespin Dragonflies (Quick Afterschool Craft)

I love crafts that are quick and easy enough to do after school between the homework and activities. And these clothespins dragon flies are just that ..quick and easy.. but Super cute. All you need is one clothespin, two Popsicle sticks and two googly eyes per dragonfly.
Have your little one color the clothespin however they want .. My little man used a pencil to hold the pin open so he could get all edges colored.
After the clothespins all colored, color both Popsicle sticks too.
Use a hot glue gun to glue on the sticks to the top in an X over the little metal clasp .. and glue the googly eyes on the very tip of the pin.
A front view of Kasen's Dragonfly.
Taelor's dragonflies.
I forgot to take a picture but we attached a thin magnet to the back and hung them on the magnetic board.. perfect to hold on to those school projects your little ones bring home.

Clothes Pin Heart

While out blog hopping :) I saw this adorable clothes pin heart

(BUT I can't remember the blog I saw it on to link back,

so if any of you Awesome followers know please,

please send me the link so I can link back to her.)

Thanks

EDIT : I'm so excited , guess who found me :) Jenn from Clean and Scentsible, the original creator of the Clothes Pin Wreath. YEA ! ! !

Now onto the Craft

I started out by spacing out and clipping clothes

pins to a firm piece of paper.

Next I cut out different strips of scrapbook paper,

I made each strip a little longer than the clothes pin so I had

something to hold onto while I mod podge the paper to the pin
Isn't Modge Podge the best ? ?
The white paper on left looks a little bumpy because
I hadn't scraped the extra modge pod off yet :)

All my pins drying . . .

Notice the extra paper hanging off the pins . . .

When they were done drying I flipped them over and
used a razor blade to cut them off.

Next, I had the Man of the House bend my hanger into a heart . . .
my attempts kept coming out looking like a kidney :)

My heart and pins ready to go . . .

After a while clipping on and moving around until the pattern looked

perfect, I put just a little dab of hot glue to secure them to the hanger.
My wreath was featured over at My Backyard Eden ! Click here

Another feature over at The Wicker House Click Here

One more feature over at Somday Crafts Click here

Happy Crafting ! !