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Craft Tutorials | Crafts for Kids | Animal Crafts for Kids | Clothespin Crafts: Hungry Fish
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Clothespin Crafts: Hungry Fish

Author by Amanda Davis on July 21, 2019 Updated on March 17, 2020

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Lately I’ve been making a lot of clothespin crafts. These cute hungry fish are fun to make and great to play with too! The kids will love them.
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Lately I’ve been making a lot of clothespin crafts. I have a huge supply of wooden clothespins, and if you don’t you can pick them up from dollar stores and places like WalMart really cheap. They are great for lots of things, but also make really fun puppet-type crafts for kids, just like my clothespin dinosaurs from a couple months ago.

school of colorful patterned fish made from scrapbook paper and clothespin

 

This time I decided to make a school of hungry fish. Kids can squeeze the clothespin to open and close the mouth. It’s a fun craft for any day of the year, or perfect for an ocean unit!

Hungry Clothespin Fish

Clothespin Hungry Fish

If you don’t have scrapbook paper on hand, construction paper will work too. However, construction paper can tear and bend easily, but if you use card stock which is sturdier, your project will last longer.

RELATED: If you have lots of leftover clothespins, our clothespin car is super easy to make, and the kids will love creating their own toy!

Clothespin craft, hungry fish

For this project you will need the following supplies:

  • 4 wooden clothespins
  • Colorful scrapbook papers
  • Fish pattern
  • 4 googly eyes
  • Tools: hot glue gun, scissors

TIP: You can use white craft glue, hot glue is just faster.

use the pattern to cut out the fish using scrapbook paper

  1. Print the patterns and use them to cut fish from scrapbook paper.

cut each fish horizontally through the middle

  1. Cut each fish in half horizontally, from tail to nose.

How to make clothespin fish

  1. Lay clothespins on their sides.
  2. Glue the top half of the fish to the upper half of the clothespin.
  3. Glue the bottom half of the fish to the lower half of the clothespin.
  4. Glue on googly eyes.

colorful fish made out of clothespins

NOTE: I glued my clothespins so that the fish mouths would remain open for the photographs. This is a fun toy that your kids can play with. Open and close the mouth by squeezing the clothespin.

I hope you enjoyed this project and that you are your kids will have a great time crafting together. Have fun!

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Clothespin Crafts: Hungry Fish

Lately I’ve been making a lot of clothespin crafts. These cute hungry fish are fun to make and great to play with too! The kids will love them.
Age Group: Kids Crafts

Supplies

  • 4 wooden clothespins
  • Colorful scrapbook papers
  • Fish pattern
  • 4 googly eyes
  • Tools: hot glue gun scissors

Instructions

  • Print the patterns and use them to cut fish from scrapbook paper.
  • Cut each fish in half horizontally, from tail to nose.
  • Lay clothespins on their sides.
  • Glue the top half of the fish to the upper half of the clothespin.
  • Glue the bottom half of the fish to the lower half of the clothespin.
  • Glue on googly eyes.

Expert Tips & FAQs

You can use white craft glue, hot glue is just faster.
I glued my clothespins so that the fish mouths would remain open for the photographs. This is a fun toy that your kids can play with. Open and close the mouth by squeezing the clothespin open and closed.

This post originally published here on Oct 13, 2014.

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Amanda Davis is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years.
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  1. Cheryl says

    July 16, 2022 at 6:16 pm

    Where do you get the fish patterns?

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      August 7, 2022 at 11:40 am

      The pattern is linked in the post https://craftsbyamanda.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/clothespin-hungry-fish-pattern.pdf

      Reply
  2. DIANE BASH says

    February 27, 2020 at 8:31 pm

    Cute and fun to play with! Great for building those finger muscles.

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      March 2, 2020 at 9:11 am

      Thank you Diane!

      Reply
  3. Sherry Lee says

    March 27, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    You are so talented. Thank you for sharing your great ideas. I will be using them at our girls in action group at church.

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      March 28, 2017 at 9:11 am

      Thanks so much, Sherry! I hope you have a blast :)

      Reply
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