Hi creative friends! It can’t get much simpler than this clothespin craft using natural wood clothespins and some pretty painted pinecone flowers. Sometimes the best things in life are the simple things.
Crafting with Clothespins
Now that these are finished, they remind me of pretty hair berets with the soft pink painted pinecones. Pinecone flowers are made from regular pinecones but trimmed down to a smaller size opening them up like a blooming flower. We offer these types of pinecone flowers in our Etsy shop which you can check out here but you can of course make your own at home. We’ll show you just how in the instructions below!
Looking through all the crafts with clothespins we’ve made for our blog over the years, was like a walk down memory lane. Here are some of out favorite clothespin crafts:
- Colorful popsicle stick picture frame
- DIY decorative clothespins
- Fun halloween clothespin craft
- Pretty scrap wood photo display
Popsicle Stick Photo Frame 
Decorative Clothespins 
Halloween Clothespin Craft 
Scrap Wood Picture Display
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Materials Needed
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- Clothespins, natural wood
- Small pinecones, cut in half to make “pinecone flowers”
- Acrylic paint in any color of your choosing (shades of pink mixed with white)
- Paintbrush
- Hot glue gun
- Decorative bow, ¼” wide – ½” wide
How to Make Pretty Pinecone Clothespin Craft
If you’ve gathered your own pine cones to use for this craft, be sure to clean them first. Learn how to clean pinecones for crafting here.
Once cleaned, use gardening shears to trim off the top half of the pinecone leaving just the lower half. This lower half will resemble a flower.
And as I mentioned above, we also have natural, unpainted pinecone flowers in a variety of shapes and sizes in our Etsy shop.
Using a fine tip paint brush, add paint to the petals of the pinecone flower. Leave the center of the pinecone unfinished. Mix a few different shades of pink to repeat for other pinecone flowers.
Preheat glue gun and then secure the underside of the pinecone flower to the clothespin. Leave enough room at the top for a prettied decorative bow.
And with that, the pretty pinecone flower decorative clothespins are complete! I love clipping these to my wire baskets an using them to hold a greeting card on to a gift bag.
Other Pinecone Flower Crafts
- Scrap wood picture display
- Cherry blossom pinecone art (coming soon)
- Pinecone succulents
- Pinecone flower bouquet
- Halloween pinecone flowers
Scrap Wood Picture Display 
Cherry Blossom Pinecone Art Craft 
Painted Pinecone Succulents 
Pine Cone Flower Bouquet 
Painted Pinecone Flowers
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Pretty Pinecone Clothespin Craft
Materials
- Clothespins natural wood
- Small pinecones cut in half to make “pinecone flowers”
- Acrylic paint in any color of your choosing shades of pink mixed with white
- Paintbrush
- Hot glue gun
- Decorative bow ¼” wide – ½” wide
Instructions
- Prepare the pinecones for crafting
- Once cleaned, use gardening shears to trim off the top half of the pinecone leaving just the lower half. This lower half will resemble a flower.
- Using a fine tip paint brush, add paint to the petals of the pinecone flower. Leave the center of the pinecone unfinished. Mix a few different shades of pink to repeat for other pinecone flowers.
- Preheat glue gun and then secure the underside of the pinecone flower to the clothespin. Leave enough room at the top for a pretied decorative bow.