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| Two dancing ballerina clothespin dolls in coral and lavender costumes. |
These two adorable little wooden ballerinas are made from old-fashioned clothespins. I've made their tutus from pom poms but crafters could make them just as easily from tulle or tissue paper. Their tiaras are made using cut paper but these could also be made from bits of lace as well. The materials for fashioning clothespin dolls could come from any clean recycled materials really!
Supply List:
- clothespins (wooden)
- pom poms
- acrylic paints
- embroidery floss
- lace notions (optional)
- hot glue gun and hot glue
- a chenille stem
- one or two cotton balls
- white school glue
- wooden stands
- permanent ink pen (permanent)
- embroidery floss for hair
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Paint the heads, neck and legs of each doll with flesh colored paints.
- Paint the ballerina's torso in a color similar to the tutu that you will be gluing onto the clothespin.
- Unravel the cotton ball and cover the chenille stem with it using white school glue and pressure from your finger tips. Roll the chenille stem between the palms of your hands to adhere it evenly down the length of the wire.
- Cut smaller lengths of the stem to craft the ballerina's uplifted arms in an arc shape.
- Bore tiny holes into either side of the clothespins where the shoulders would be.
- Glue the chenille stem arms in place. tips of the wire inside of the bored holes, allowing for plenty of drying time. You may need to temporarily bend the arched arms forward as these dry and you begin to work on the hair of each doll.
- Hot glue a pom pom on the top of each clothespin to be the hair 'buns' on the ballerinas.
- Dab on white school glue around this bun and spin on the embroidery floss to finish off the hair style.
- Glue on the tiara.
- Bend the arms up and twist on additional cotton fluff around the place where the wire arms are connected to the clothespin. These will help hold the wire in place and also look like tiny puff sleeves... which is appropriate to a ballerina costume.
- Paint the sleeves after they have dried in the same color of acrylic that the doll's tutu is made of.
- Paint the arms the same flesh color as the rest of your doll.
- Paint on facial features as you like.
- Now hot glue on five pom poms about the hips of each ballerina. These are the doll's tutus.
- Glue the dancers inside of their stands and paint on their slippers.
- Use a fine tipped permanent pen to make the doll eyebrows and also draw the shoe ribbons of the ballet slippers onto the lower half of each doll's leg.
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| Details of ballerina clothespin dolls. |
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