Halloween Clothespin Crafts

Turn simple clothespins into a spooky trio of Halloween figures with these easy craft ideas!

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This guide shows you how to create three different Halloween clothespin characters: a monster, a vampire, and a witch. Each project uses painted clothespins for limbs and paper cutouts for the body and details. Follow the steps to make your own festive decorations that stand on their own.

Directions

Paint two regular clothespins black and two regular clothespins purple or black. Let them dry. Cut out template pieces: a green head, purple body, black hair, eyebrows, and mouth.

Attach the hair, eyebrow, and mouth to the green head using glue. Add two googly eyes. Then glue the head onto the body.

Attach the painted clothespins as legs and arms. Glue boots to the bottom of the leg clothespins, ensuring they don't extend past the bottom so the figure stands.

For the second project, paint two regular clothespins black and two small clothespins black. Let dry. Cut out a beige face, black body, black hair, black boots, red cape, white shirt, and red glitter paper bow.

Create the head by painting a face or using beige paper. Glue hair on top. Draw a mouth with a black sharpie and add two white teeth. Add googly eyes. For the body, glue the white triangle shirt onto the body, then attach the head. Glue the red glitter bow over the head and shirt, and glue the red cape to the back.

Add clothespin legs and arms. Glue boots to the bottom of leg clothespins, leaving space at the bottom for stability.

For the third project, paint two regular clothespins black and two small clothespins black or purple. Let dry. Cut out a black body, hat, boots, green face, and a light beige strip for the broom.

Make the witch face: cut small orange cardstock strips for hair and glue to the sides of the face. Glue the black hat on top. Add a gold glitter paper strip. Attach googly eyes. Draw a nose and smile with a black sharpie.

Make the broom: cut a long strip of light beige paper. Make small slits along the strip. Twist it around the end of a pipe cleaner and glue to secure.

Draw black marks on the leg clothespins.

Assemble the body: glue the head to the body. Add leg and arm clothespins. Glue the broom to one arm. Glue boots onto leg clothespins, leaving space at the bottom.