This simple sun craft for kids is a happy sunshine and perfect for little ones working on fine-motor skills. This preschool sun craft is great for home, school or daycare. Making a happy sunshine takes just a few craft supplies and works for kids of any age. Welcome warm air, blue skies, and sunshine with this Happy Sunshine Clothespin Craft.
Easy ClothesPin Crafts
Old fashioned clothespins are really fun for kids to use in crafts. Today we are using clothes pins as the rays from the sunshine in our sun craft.
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This sun craft makes an especially cute refrigerator magnet if you place a strip of magnetic tape to the back. My kids like playing with it and moving all the clothespins to the top of the circle to make the sun look like it has hair!
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Happy Sunshine Craft for Kids
This happy, bright, warm, sunshine craft doesn’t require too many supplies! You may even have some of these crafting supplies in your crafting closet and don’t be afraid to substitute for something you do have on hand…that is part of the fun.
Supplies Needed To Make Happy Sunshine Craft
Note: If you would rather use construction paper or scrapbook paper you have on hand, simply cut a circle out of cardboard and glue on the yellow paper to make it more sturdy and able to support the clothespins.
Directions To Make Clothepin Sun Craft
Step 1
This part is so fun! Kids will get a kick out of dying wooden clothespin with a yellow Dot Art marker.
Simply place the clothespins on a paper towel and invite kids to press the dot marker onto them. The paper towel will catch the ink that doesn’t absorb into the wood.
Alternatively, and a little more messy: kids could paint the clothespins with yellow paint.
Step 2
As the clothespins are drying, invite kids to create their circle with the paper punch or by tracing a round object.
We used a circle paper punch to make the base for our sun, but you could also invite kids to trace a small bowl or old CD.
Step 3
Press eye stickers or wiggly eyes onto the paper, then invite kids to draw a mouth on their sunshine with a black pen and crayons or a colored pencil.
Step 4
Show kids how to squeeze the clothespins onto the yellow circle to make it a sunshine!
Materials
- miniature clothespins
- yellow cardstock
- eye stickers or wiggly eyes
- black colored pencils
- yellow Dot Art marker
Tools
- circular object to trace or 2 3/4″ circle paper punch
Instructions
Kids will get a kick out of dying wooden clothespin with a yellow Dot Art marker. Simply place the clothespins on a paper towel and invite kids to press the dot marker onto them. The paper towel will catch the ink that doesn’t absorb into the wood.
As the clothespins are drying, invite kids to create their circle with the paper punch or by tracing a round object.
Press eye stickers or wiggly eyes onto the paper, then invite kids to draw a mouth on their sunshine with a black pen and crayons or a colored pencil.
Show kids how to squeeze the clothespins onto the yellow circle to make it a sunshine!
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We hope your kids enjoyed dying clothespins yellow in this simple and fun sun craft!
