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| The ultimate clothespin dolls dress up as skaters. |
Clothespin dolls dressed as skaters have been made by many people to decorate Christmas trees over the past 100 years.
I made two versions of my own here. . . Both female and male. They are dressed in the fashion of modern skaters: their coats are made from the remains of a small sock; Our warm headwear, earmuffs, and scarves are modeled after the winter sportswear worn on the slopes of Colorado today.
Support list:
- Wooden clothespins
- wooden sticks
- wooden toothpicks
- cardboard scrap
- baby socks
- Chenille stems
- pom poms
- yarn
- Two or three cotton balls
- Yarn for hair
- Acrylic paints for painted eyes
- Needle and thread
- Hot glue gun and hot glue
- wood glue
- Felt cuttings
Step by step instructions:
- First, paint the head of the clothespin a flesh color.
- Use a bright, solid color like blue, yellow, or red to paint the legs of your skater’s pants. Then paint their shoes a clear contrasting color.
- Tuck a leg of chenille around the shoulder area of the clothespin just below the neck. Tape and glue this in place.
- Wrap the arms and neck of the chenille stem with twine or twine.
- Cut the arms to arm’s length but leave just enough to wrap around the end point of the toothpick.
- Cover these “hands” with a little cotton batting and wood glue. Paint the gloves the color you want.
- Cut small circular shapes out of cardboard to insert the opposite ends of the toothpicks into to make the ski poles. Draw it if you like.
- Cut out wooden wooden sticks in the shape of the sky. Samai have traditional pointed tips.
- Use wood glue to attach a small toy sky to the ends of each leg of a clothespin. Let the glue dry solid.
- If you like, use felt snips to cut faux fur around the top of the shoe. I show the male skater with this cut.
- Now cut and shape with needle and thread coats each doll. I layered cotton under the jackets to make them look voluminous. The coats are simple tube shapes.
- After fitting the coats to the clothespin doll’s body, glue them in place.
- Now use the remaining toe sections of the socks to form flaps for each sweater and glue them in place, up or down.
- I glued earmuffs with a pom-pom and a colored chenille stem to the male skater’s head. He also has a black pom pom between his mouths to act as his hair.
- I glued a black string braid to the top of the skater girl’s forehead after gluing her hood to the back of her head.
- I used a very small paintbrush to make their eyes. First put on white and let it dry. Then add a small spot of black color for the pupil.
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| The clothespin sliders are shown here from different angles so you can see all the details. |
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| The male skier wears yellow, grey, red and white winter ski clothing. It’s quite a fashion dish Look his way down the slopes, I think! |
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| The girl skater is his younger sister. She’s also wearing a trendy light blue and hot pink outfit! |
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| Both wooden dolls are ready to hit the slopes and meet up with friends afterwards for hot cocoa. |