The creative life of old things: DIY clothespins. Unusual use of clothespins How to use a clothespin

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As a rule, clothespins are used to hang clothes so that they do not fall off the ropes while drying.

It should be noted that clothespins were invented over 160 years ago and are still an integral part of our daily life.

But there are many other ways to use these simple devices.

Clothespins can be used in place of hooks, as organizers, or just as decoration.

You can find the most interesting and useful ideas for using clothespins below:

1. Clothespins for linen: we carefully store any kind of thread.

2. Wooden clothespins can be useful when sewing.

3. We use decorative clothespins when making candles.

To know how you can make various candles with your own hands, check out our articles:

• 10 beautiful and fragrant DIY candles
• How to make a coffee-scented candle with your own hands
• How to make a candle at home

4. A master class from clothespins: a convenient to-do calendar.

You will need:

Wooden clothespins

Paint (acrylic or gouache)

Brush

Marker or helium pen

Twine

Scissors

Sandpaper (if needed)

Colored tape (optional).

If necessary, sandpaper the wooden clothespins to smooth them down.

1. Prepare your paints and gently brush them onto the sides of the clothespins. If you want, you can mix several colors to give the paint the desired shade.

Can also be dyed small pieces of clothespinsin different colors.

2. Write the day of the week on each clothespin.

3. Attach the clothespins to the string.

4. Now you can write on small pieces of paper what you plan to do in the week and attach these pieces of paper to the appropriate clothespin.

5. We make a "hook" from clothespins for rubber gloves.

You will need:

Wooden clothespins

Double-sided tape

Scissors.

1.Use double-sided tape to attach the required number of clothespins to your kitchen cabinet.

2. Now you can attach rubber gloves or towels to the clothespins.

This craft is also suitable for the bathroom.

6. Support the spoon or spatula with a wooden clothespin.

7. Towel and small clothespins instead of an apron.

8. Display of photos on clothespins.

You will need:

Wooden clothespins

Super glue

Acrylic paint and brush (optional).

1. To completely paint the clothespins, you need to disassemble them. It is not difficult, and the final result of the painting will delight you. When the paint is dry, put the clothespins back together.

* If you don't want to paint your clothespins, you can glue them on the sides with colored tape or washi tape.

2. Use super glue to glue the clothespins to the hoop.

3. Now you can attach photos to clothespins.

You can put a vase or a pot of flowers in the middle.

Another photo holder option:

9. Hanger with clothespins.

You can attach multiple clothespins to a wire hanger to hold your scarves, ties, or skirts on.

10. Applications of clothespin: nail holder.

To better grip the nail while driving in, use a clothespin and you won't get hurt.

11. Clothespin for cables, headphones and wires.

To prevent the cable or wire from getting tangled, it can be stored like this. In addition, it is convenient to store small headphones with a clothespin.

12. Clothespin for books.

13. Close the bag with clothespins.

15. How to make a simple sponge brush out of a clothespin.

16. What can be made from a clothespin: car air freshener.

You will need:

Felt balls

PVA glue

Pin

Aroma oils.

1. Glue the felt balls to the clothespin.

2. Place a drop of aroma oil on each ball.

3. Attach the clothespin in the car.

17. A flower bed made of wooden clothespins.

You will need:

Tin

Wooden clothespins

Colored cardboard

Small plant or artificial flowers.

1. Attach clothespins to the top of the can in a circle.

2. Plant a plant in a jar or add artificial grass and flowers.

* You can decorate a vase from a jar and clothespins with various stickers or figures cut out of colored paper or cardboard.

18. Holder from a clothespin for a toothbrush.

19. How to make wedding decorations from clothespins.

The scope of application of clothespins is very extensive.

Two jaws with levers, connected by a steel spring - it’s easy to guess that this is a clothespin, ingenious in its simplicity, familiar to every clothespin. This product can be confidently attributed to the category of eternal things. The clothespin, once invented, has not undergone fundamental structural changes over the centuries, and maybe even millennia.

But the scope of its application due to non-standard ideas and creative solutions has expanded incredibly. Clothespins are used as holders, clamps, restraints, elements for making various crafts. And this is far from the limit.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves and consider the original ways to use a clothespin in detail and in order.

Finger expander

Probably, many are familiar with the situation with a stubborn plastic bottle. You are trying to open the coveted container, and your fingers slide over the tightly screwed lid. What's happening? Nothing extraordinary. You just have weak fingers.

Unfortunately, in everyday life, our fingers are not involved in processes that go beyond clicking on the keyboard and manipulating cutlery. And this is too little. Fingers need to be systematically loaded, and as a mini-trainer, you can use a regular clothespin, squeezing it between your thumb and the rest alternately.

And that is not all. The fingers of the hands have a direct connection with the brain. We will not go into the jungle of the physiology of higher nervous activity, let's say very simply - by developing fine motor skills, you train your thinking abilities. So, if you have a desire to feel unprecedented strength in your fingers, and at the same time to expand your intellectual capabilities, use a small universal simulator - an ordinary clothespin.

Device for acupressure

Everyone undoubtedly knows about the existence of such a physiotherapeutic technique as acupuncture. Its essence lies in stimulating certain points on the body, which are the projection of individual organs and systems. It is strongly not recommended to practice acupuncture on your own. This business should only be dealt with by highly qualified specialists with appropriate training and deep knowledge in the field of medicine.

A mild alternative to this method can be a slight stimulation of physiologically active points using ordinary clothespins. This effect is harmless and is a static analogue of conventional massage. To implement it, you need to find an atlas of acupuncture points and pick up clothespins according to the compression force so that you can regulate the degree of impact without getting yourself.

By the way, such sets of "massage" clothespins are already on sale. But neither in appearance, nor in design and functionality, they are no different from ordinary underwear.

Nail holder

It would seem, what could be easier than hammering a nail? But not everything is so simple. Gripping the nail with your fingers increases the risk of injury and obscures your view almost completely, reducing control and increasing the chance of deformation of the fastener.

The nail will not bend, and the fingers will remain intact if you use a regular clothespin as a holder. For maximum effect, take a wooden clothespin, make small grooves on its jaws for a nail with a sharp knife, an edge of a triangular file or a file. Now, by clamping the nail with a clothespin, you can control the angle of its entry into the material and protect your fingers outside the reach of the hammer.

Long tweezers

The use of clothespins allows you to add another interesting specimen to the arsenal of your home tool. If you glue, tie with threads or fasten with small screws to the levers of a clothespin, after having drilled holes, long, even sticks, then you will get a kind of tweezers that allow you to penetrate into various holes, slots, and other places with limited access.

Clamp

In the process of gluing paper, cardboard, fabric, wood and other parts, they need a reliable fix. In this case, an ordinary clothespin can be used as a clamp.

Universal "opener"

Sometimes tubes with glue, bottles with medicinal and other formulations start to "play up" - they just do not want to open.

Solving the problem with pliers is too rough, you may damage the cap. A clothespin will be a good help in this matter. Put it on the cap, squeeze and try to twist. With a high degree of probability, you will succeed.

Fridge magnet

An original and practical option for using a clothespin is making a fridge magnet on its basis. Disassemble the wooden clothespin and cover it with clear varnish. After the varnish is dry, collect the clothespin and glue a piece of magnetic paper to one of its sides. This material is easy to obtain from any store or stationery department. You now have a cute magnet.

By itself, a clothespin on the refrigerator door is already something new and unusual. Such an interesting solution will not go unnoticed by your guests, and it will also become a convenient help for you, because its main function is to play the role of a clip for notes. Thus, you will not lose the recipe for a delicious dish, you will not forget about an important date, meeting, scheduled tasks, calls.

Sapling stabilizer

This option for using a clothespin will be useful for gardeners and gardeners. Often, when planting seedlings and small seedlings in the ground, it is difficult to give them verticality. The plants are still very weak and show only the rudiments of the root system, which does not allow them to confidently gain a foothold in the soil.

The way out is seen in the use of a clothespin. When planting a plant in the ground, put a clothespin on its stem or stem, set the verticality and dig in the resulting "structure". After a while, when the root system of the plant gets stronger and develops, the clothespin can be easily removed.

Holder for thorny stems

Rose, wild rose, gooseberry, yoshta - all these garden plants have one thing in common - they are incredibly prickly. So, so as not to drive the needle into your finger or hand, hook a branch with a clothespin and, turning it to the desired position, then do whatever you want - cut, process, collect fruits.

Bed linen labels

Sometimes, looking at a stack of bed linen in the closet, it is difficult to immediately determine where the sheets, duvet covers, pillowcases, diapers, and towels are in it. Clothespins will help solve this problem once and for all. In this case, they will act as tab retainers.

Technically, this is not difficult to implement. In any clothespin, you can find a hole through which a string with a signed cardboard tag indicating a particular type of bedding can be easily pulled. You can do it differently - without resorting to any strings, stick a signed paper tag on each clothespin.

Hot dish stand

Perhaps you still have old wooden clothespins that you have not used for a long time, preferring new plastic products. Don't rush to throw them away. In your hands is a ready-made set of parts for making an original stand for hot dishes.

The lever of an old wooden clothespin is shaped like a cone. Due to this, a small circle of almost perfect geometric shape can be folded from the halves of the products. The number of clothespins used to make the stand will be 20-30 pieces.

Take a piece of cardboard and, disassembling the clothespins, lay out the wooden elements on the sides in a circle. Then, along the outer contour, measure the diameter of the resulting circle with a compass and draw it on cardboard. Focusing on this line, glue the wooden parts of the clothespins to the cardboard, remembering to glue them together with the outer even sides and laying them with levers to the center of the circle.

When your structure is dry, use scissors, and then with a file and a piece of sandpaper to remove excess cardboard and glue. You will have to tinker a little, but as a result you will get a first-class stand for hot pots, bowls, pans - original and, best of all, handmade.

Cover stop

A situation familiar to everyone: you are cooking something, when suddenly the lid rises above the pan, and the boiling substance floods the stove that has been recently washed to a high shine. You move the lid a little, leaving a small crack, but after a while, under the influence of vibration and steam, the lid returns to its place, and part of the contents of the pan breaks out again.

In this case, again, using a clothespin will help. Just clip it onto the edge of the lid. Thus, you will provide an optimal gap for thermoregulation and steam escape between the pan and the lid, which will eliminate unnecessary surprises during the cooking process.

Hanger for kitchen

Most housewives will agree that a regular hanger with hooks is not the most convenient option in the kitchen. Towels, potholders, rags, aprons often slip off hooks and end up on the floor. A more reliable fixation is needed here. In this case, it is difficult to find a more effective solution than using clothespins. But again, you have to work a little.

Take a rectangular piece of wood and stick some clothespins onto it. You can arrange clothespins in one or two rows, observing a checkerboard pattern. Both wooden and plastic clothespins are suitable for our hanger. Modern adhesives provide a reliable and strong bond between different materials. After the clothespins are glued to the plank, you just need to attach it to the wall and forget about the inconveniences associated with using problem hooks.

Clip for curtains

Probably, everyone is familiar with a similar story: you wake up in the early morning and, probably, for a couple of hours more would be happy to be in the arms of Morpheus, but you were awakened by a ray of sunlight that slipped through the gap between the curtains.

Using a regular clothespin will save you from this problem forever. In the evening, before going to bed, slide the curtains tightly and pin the edges of the curtains with a clothespin. Now nothing prevents you from getting a good night's sleep.

Clamp for bags

Nowadays, the packaging of food products in sealed bags has become widespread. This solution, which ensures a long shelf life, is completely eliminated when the package is opened. Moisture and air penetrate into it, which does not in the best way affect the taste and other properties of the products.

Fold the edge of the bag two or three times and secure it with a clothespin. Thus, you can limit the access of air and moisture to the inside of the package as much as possible, as well as ensure the convenience of storage.

Blanket clip

Everyone knows what inconveniences the process of self-filling a blanket into a duvet cover is associated with, especially in the absence of sufficient practice of such activities. The main difficulty lies in fixing the naughty ends. They pop out of the corners all the time, as a result of which the blanket and duvet cover turn into a shapeless ball. The procedure is greatly simplified if the ends are fixed in the corners with clothespins, then tuck in the rest of the blanket and shake well a couple of times.

Cycling Safety

Many cycling enthusiasts are familiar with the unforgettable feeling when you begin to realize that the leg of your trousers is tightly sandwiched between the chain and the sprocket. The outcome of such a situation is guaranteed to be one - bruises, abrasions, bicycle repair.

To prevent this from happening, special equipment is used. But if it is not there, and the desire to ride in trousers is present, you can avoid an accident by pinching the trouser legs with clothespins.

There are clothespins in every home, because without them it would be problematic to dry your favorite things. But these simple devices can serve not only for their intended purpose. Today we will tell you how to find clothespins and use them to significantly ease some household chores.

Papers, bills, coupons.
Business documents require clear sorting, otherwise you can easily get confused in their huge number. Try to neatly arrange numerous bills, coupons and other important papers, securing the piles with clothespins, on which, for convenience, make signifying inscriptions - so they will always be at your fingertips and will not be lost.

Nails and hammer.
For minor repairs around the house, it is convenient to use clothespins as a holder, which helps to hammer nails with a hammer neatly and safely. This will ensure that your fingers remain safe and sound.

Air freshener.
Apply 5-10 drops of your favorite essential oil to wooden clothespins and use as an air freshener in your room or car.

Headphones.
If you are familiar with the problem of perpetually tangled headphones, solve it by securing the wires with a clothespin.

Spoons and ladles.
A great way to prevent spoons, spatulas and ladles from slipping into the pot of liquid is to attach a clothespin to the handle of the cutlery while cooking, which will act as a latch.

Paint brushes.
Make original brushes for kids that will help you create interesting and picturesque paintings with paints. To do this, attach sponges, feathers, leaves, pieces of cloth and other suitable items to the movable part of the fixture to use for. Each type of brush will have its own effect, which will allow you to experiment with the thickness and texture of the lines.

Refrigerator magnets.
To make a fridge magnet from clothespins and use it to attach notes, recipes, postcards, etc., you need a special magnetic tape. Stick it on one side of the clip, and decorate the outside of the accessory with decorative paper.

Toothbrushes.
Sometimes the principles of hygiene require us to think over a way that allows the toothbrush not to come into contact with the surface of the sink or shower stall. In this case, an ordinary plastic clothespin will be able to hold the device in an upright position, which should be fixed on the handle and used as a stand.

Clothes hangers.
Clothes hangers are not always equipped with special mounts for skirts, scarves and trousers. In this case, use clothespins that will do the job perfectly and will prevent the clothes from wrinkling and losing their shape.

Pans.
If there is no steam outlet on the lid of the pot, attach a clothespin to the edge of the pan to prevent the dish from cooking while boiling. This will keep the ingredients in shape and not boil over.

Snacks.
Creatively designed snacks are the best way to remind kids about. Arrange the cookies, nuts, dried fruit, and other treats in sealed bags, then decorate with a clothespin, giving the package a butterfly shape. To make the decor look more spectacular, add a few recognizable details: bright painting, horns made of fluffy wire and colored "eyes".

All you need to create it is a pair of clothespins, twine, and a tea strainer.

Multifunctional hanger

In order to make it, you need not quite ordinary clothespins - elongated, with a hook at the end. But you can not only hang clothes, but also leave messages to your household.

Halloween Decorations

All Saints' Day is already close - it's time to think about decorating your home. Clothespins painted in traditional Halloween colors - black and orange - are perfect for this. Draw on them (or make out of paper) a devil, a pumpkin and other characters, and the toys are ready.

"Live" toys

To please yourself and your children, you can make toys from clothespins. Draw, for example, a shark on paper. Glue one half of it to the bottom of the clamp, and the other to the top. As a result, squeezing the clothespin, the shark will "open" its mouth.

Photo collage

To create such an original photo collage, you will need a beautiful frame, rope, clothespins and the actual photograph. Pull a string inside the frame and attach your favorite photos to it.

Wheel frame

You can also make an unusual photo collage using clothespins and an old bicycle wheel. The knitting needles will serve as a "support" on which you can pin your photos.

New Year card

Clothespins painted white with cute faces and funny scarves are a great addition to a New Year's card. Attach them to paper, and kind snowmen will transform your congratulations.

Garland for congratulations

This is a great solution for congratulating colleagues in the office. Make such a "board of honor" with garlands of clothespins, and any employee will be able to leave his congratulatory note there.

Wedding greetings

Typographic postcards are corny. Surprise the newlyweds with a card from a clothespin. To do this, paint one part of it white (the bride's dress) and the other black (the groom's tuxedo). Don't forget the eyes, lips and veil. "Open" clothespin - lovers look into each other's eyes; "Closed" - merged into passionate kisses. Such an original congratulation will replace a thousand words.

Christmas decorations

Two clothespins glued together and one more attached on top, and Santa's reindeer is ready. It remains only to paint the toy in a suitable color, draw the eyes and attach the nose. In this performance, Rudolph & Co looks very cute on the tree.

Sweet butterflies

These "butterflies" with delicious filling are what you need for a children's party. Put the treats in plastic bags and drag them with a clothespin painted with a butterfly to create wings. Children will be not only tasty, but also interesting thanks to the original packaging.

Candlestick or planter

With the help of a tin can and wooden clothespins, you can make two beautiful and useful things at once. If you attach clothespins to the edge of the jar and put a small candle in a glass cup inside, you get a candlestick; and if you pour earth inside and plant flowers, an original planter will come out.

Pac-man

Making Pacman is as easy as shelling pears: cut the yellow circle in the middle, draw an eye on one half and glue it to the top of the clothespin, and the other, respectively, to the bottom. And to make it look completely realistic, you can also attach a ghost figure.

Card holder

If you want your message to be immediately noticed, then do not put it, but put it on the table. A regular clothespin will help you with this. However, it is better to use a clamp with wide "legs" - this way the holder will be more stable.

Clothespins-Batman

These are clothespins for real superheroes. Making them with your own hands will not be so easy (you will have to get wings somewhere), but you will have the coolest accessories for a superhero cloak in the world.

Photo wall

This is another way to organize and store your photos. A metal grill and clothespins will help free your favorite pictures from the dusty captivity of your photo album. Plus, you can change the exposure as often as you like.

Pencil holder

10-15 wooden clothespins can be used to make a very nice pencil cup. It is enough just to glue them "in a circle". And for greater beauty - gilding and wrap with a ribbon. But don't forget the bottom - you can make it out of cardboard.

Clothespin pencil

Designer Bartosz Mucha tried to combine the incompatible. He "crossed" a pencil and other objects with a clothespin. The result turned out to be quite interesting - things from ordinary became multifunctional. True, the practical feasibility of such transformations raises doubts.

Wreath

From a metal hoop and many multi-colored (or rather, painted in different colors) clothespins, you can make such a wreath for interior decoration. The indisputable plus is that if you get tired of such decor, you can easily change it by coloring the clothespins differently.

Chandelier

To make such a designer chandelier you will need metal rings and a mesh, a bulb holder, wires, metal scissors and many, many clothespins. For detailed manufacturing instructions, see here. The result is a very atmospheric herringbone chandelier that comfortably diffuses light around the room.

Labels

In order not to get confused in your own linen closet, you can make these funny labels. To do this, you need to stick beautiful pieces of paper on the clothespin and make the appropriate inscriptions: "towels", "sheets", "diapers", etc.

Cat in the hat

Such a funny toy will appeal not only to children, but also to adults. It's a cat! However, you can “dress up” in a hat and a bow tie any animal, dear to your heart. To do this, you need to find suitable pasta, glue them to a clothespin and decorate.

Flower clip

You won't surprise anyone with flowers in ordinary plastic packaging, but you can do it with a bouquet with a holder from a clothespin. The main thing is to find a bigger clothespin (so that the stems fit into the "eyelet") and decorate it a little.

Fridge magnets

By gluing magnetic paper (sold in stationery stores) to one side of a clothespin and decorating it beautifully, you get a bright and useful fridge magnet. Useful because you can attach photos, notes, and more to it.

Mice

Another cute little thing for children and their parents is clothespins mice. Ears, antennae and tail - made of felt, purchased eyes (although you can draw). It won't take more than half an hour to make such a mouse.

Wreath - holder for photos

This is another version of the wreath for interior decoration. To make it, you will need an old wire hanger, paint, ribbon and, of course, clothespins. They need to be painted in any suitable color, and then strung on a hoop made from a hanger. At the same time, clothespins will retain their functionality - you can attach photographs of loved ones to them.

Hanger for kitchen

Household items such as clothespins are difficult to find non-standard uses. But you can! For example, do not pin the laundry with them, but make a hanger out of them and a measuring tape for all sorts of kitchen little things. Looks very bright.

Table lamp

German designer David Olschewski loves to use household items for other purposes (for example, a shovel and a pitchfork as a clothes hanger). Sometimes it turns out very cool. At least the clothespin table lamp looks impressive.

Mirror

To make such a frame for a wall mirror, you need: the mirror itself, clothespins, a glue gun, a paper clip, a satin ribbon and ... a tin can. The latter will be required in order to glue clothespins exactly in a circle.

Wedding accessories

These beautiful delicate clothespins decorated with artificial flowers can be used to secure chair covers, tablecloths, canopies and other decorative items used at weddings.

Photosurprise

Take this idea into service if you want to surprise a loved one. A garland of photographs attached to a rope with clothespins is a vivid and romantic way to remember your best moments together.

Whale and shark

Fans of the marine theme will surely love the clothespin whale and the clothespin shark. Such toys can be made by decorating the clamps and attaching the fins accordingly. Even more sea giants will "revive" the red felt tongue.

Airplane

To become an "aircraft builder" all you need is ice cream sticks and a clothespin. Paint them in contrasting colors, glue them, and the biplane is ready.

Yarn storage holders

This is a life hack for needlewomen. Handmade craftswomen often have a little yarn left from the balls. It's a pity to throw it away, but it's troublesome to store. But clothespins will help solve this problem too.

Hot stand

If you disassemble a clothespin, then you can make a very useful thing in the household from its parts - a stand for hot plates and pots. To do this, the parts of the clothespin need to be glued together at the ends so that a circle is obtained.

Today's handicraft article focuses on the unusual use of familiar objects. See how simple and unusual it is to adapt ordinary clothespins in the interior of our house. You can do these unpretentious projects with your own hands, spending a minimum of time on them, but the resulting products can transform any interior. These photo ideas are found at countryliving.com. Maybe these ideas will give someone inspiration to create.
So, the first option is to decorate a round mirror.

To make this mirror, you will need a round piece of wood with a slightly larger diameter than the mirror and 32 clothespins. First you need to paint the wooden blank and clothespins in the same color. Then, when the paint is dry, glue a mirror to the center of our painted workpiece. When gluing the mirror, it is best to use hot glue for a stronger bond. Let the glue dry. After the mirror is completely glued, start decorating with clothespins. To do this, place the clothespins around the entire circumference of the mirror so that the distance between the lower edges of the adjacent clothespins is about 1 cm. After making sure that the clothespins are evenly placed around the perimeter of the mirror, begin to glue them carefully. Please note: to increase the functionality of your mirror, it is better to glue clothespins on the back side and only at the tip. In this case, clothespins will not only act as a decoration, but can be used as holders for paper, photographs, notes, etc.

The next option for using clothes pegs is suitable for people who are creative in receiving guests in their home.

Recipe card holders.

A dinner party at your home can be complemented by a pleasant and unusual menu. To surprise and delight guests, you can write recipes for meals that will be served at dinner on pieces of colored paper. Then attach these pieces of paper to a wide ribbon and hang them in front of your house. Thus, guests will be able to find out what the hosts will treat them to, and when leaving lunch, take with them the recipes of the dishes they like.

Every time we make out gifts at home, we think that it would be nice to have everything at hand. Make your own handy paper rack to store all your wrapping paper and party supplies! You can purchase a ready-made paper rack at an IKEA store. And in order to keep small paper accessories better, use clothespins.

For decoration, you will need wax bags, tissue paper, holiday pictures and clothespins.

As you know, wax paper bags can keep baked goods fresh for a long time. These bags are available in most supermarkets. However, initially they have a fairly simple appearance and shape. This can be fixed with a little effort and imagination. And then fresh and aromatic pastries will become even more attractive and appetizing. To decorate waxed bags, we cut out various figures or pictures from paper, bend the edges of the bag and attach the pictures using multi-colored clothespins. That's all. Bon Appetit!

This simple organizer will help you keep all the necessary small sticky notes with reminders and important notes close at hand. It is quite simple to make it. For this we need a dry branch from a tree and clothespins. First, we clean the branch from leaves and bark and paint it in a dark color. After the paint has dried, we make a stand for the branch. In this case, various things can serve as a stand: a cut-off bottom from a plastic bottle, a children's mold for a sandbox, and much more. If desired, the stand can also be painted in the color of the branch. After all this, we glue multi-colored clothespins on a twig so that it is possible to split them and insert paper sheets into them.

To decorate the table, you first need to determine how many clothespins you need. After that we paint the table and clothespins in one color. After the paint has dried, using superglue, glue the clothespins vertically with one side to the table so that the closed ends point down. After that, let the glue dry. And voila, the table is ready!

And here the fantasy is already limitless!