Rudolph Reindeer clothespin Christmas craft is an easy winter craft, preschool ideas for fun December kids’ activities, cute DIY Christmas tree ornament for grandparent gifts or homemade gifts from kids, or easy things to do on Christmas Eve as a family.
How To Make A Rudolph Reindeer Clothespin Christmas Craft
This Christmas reindeer craft are inexpensive crafts using wooden clothespins and just a few other craft supplies.
It’s such a cute craft to make as a Christmas ornament or, like us, for fun Christmas decorations.
Here’s what you’ll need for these festive crafts for kids this holiday season…
Christmas Craft Supplies
- Cheap wood clothespins (the ones with the spring that open and close like this)
- Brown paint or brown markers
- White paint or white paint marker
- Paint brushes (if using paint)
- Mini red pompoms
- Brown craft paper
- White and/or green pipe cleaners, cut in halves (or pieces of yarn)
- Glue
- Scissors
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Other & Optional Supplies
- Oversized t-shirts (that you don’t care to getting paint on) or disposable art smocks like these (especially if you’re doing this as crafts with preschoolers)
- Plastic tablecloths (to protect the table/surface)
- Newspaper or paper plates
- Wet wipes
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Craft Directions for Clothespin Reindeer
These crafts come together quickly with just a few supplies, so they’re perfect holiday activities for all ages.
However, if you’re doing them with younger kids (like toddlers or preschool), you may want to pre-paint the brown or allow extra time for painting and drying.
You may also want to cut out the reindeer antlers ahead of time for little ones.
Craft Instructions
1. Paint the clothes pin.
Paint the front and the back of the clothespins with the brown paint.
Set aside to dry on newspaper or paper plates.
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2. Make the reindeer antlers.
Using the brown craft paper, cut out two antlers, about 1/2 to 1-inch in size (depending on the size of your clothespins).
We just free-hand cut our antlers without a template by cutting two small rectangles and then cutting a V out of the top.
3. Glue the antlers.
Once the brown reindeer paint is dry on the clothespin, open the clothes pin and glue the antlers to the inside of the front side of clothes pin (the portion you will make the reindeer face on).
IMPORTANT CRAFT NOTE: If you are making this with little ones, you may want to have an adult assemble this part so little fingers don’t get pinched!
Glueing the antlers allows you to use this as a reindeer Christmas ornament because you can just open the clothespin and clip it onto the Christmas tree.
We were using our reindeer crafts as decorations and not ornaments, so we just clipped our antlers in between the clothespin opening and didn’t glue them in.
4. Make the reindeer face.
Using the white paint marker or white paint and a small paintbrush, make two small dots near the top on front of the clothespin (near the antlers).
Glue the small red pom pom right below the reindeer eyes for the nose.
CRAFT NOTE: If you’re using a paint maker, you can also write each child’s name and the year on the back of the reindeer.
5. Finish with a scarf!
Wrap the pipe cleaner around the clothes pin just below the reindeer nose for a scarf.
(We were out of pipecleaners from other holiday crafts, so I just used yarn for this one.)
Then…
ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS CLOTHESPIN REINDEER!
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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
I hope you enjoy making these super cute Rudolph Reindeer Clothespin Christmas Crafts!
