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These clothespin pirate dolls are super cute and easy to make! You can make them with minimal crafting supplies, and better yet, these clothespins pirate dolls craft is perfect for kids of all ages. Whether you have younger kids or older kids, they will love making this craft. Perfect for at home or the classroom.

Clothespin Pirate Dolls made of wood clothespins with pirate clothes, brown pants, white pants, and red pants with a white shirt, red shirt, and red and white shirt, googly eyes, and black felt pirate hat — Arrrrr! You’ll love these pirate craft, Matey!

How To Make DIY Clothespin Pirate Dolls

We are a little obsessed with pirates, so my son was really excited to make some clothespin pirate dolls! Now, we just need some treasure — and maybe a parrot — to go with them.

Related: We have so many fun pirate facts!

Either way, these are so fun to make. Explore colors, practice fine motor skills, and promote pretend play with this fun clothespin pirates craft.

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Supplies Need To Make This Clothespin Pirate Doll Craft

Three Clothespin Pirate Dolls made of wood clothespins with pirate clothes, brown pants, white pants, and red pants with a white shirt, red shirt, and red and white shirt, googly eyes, and black felt pirate hat

Instructions To Make Clothespin Pirate Dolls

Video: Make Clothespin Pirate Doll Crafts For Kids

Step 1

Start by gluing the googly eyes onto the face of the clothespin.

Step 2

Cut the black felt into the shape of a pirate hat. Then cut the white felt to look like a skull. You can draw eyes onto the skull with the black marker.

red sharpie and black sharpie Clothespin Pirate Dolls made of wood clothespins with pirate clothes, brown pants, white pants, and red pants with a white shirt, red shirt, and red and white shirt, googly eyes, and black felt pirate hat — Gather your markers and start coloring your clothespins.

Step 3

Glue the skull onto the hat and then the hat onto the clothespin.

Step 4

Draw clothes onto the clothespin using the markers. We added cutoff pants, vests, mustaches, and shirts. I even cut an eyepatch from the black felt and glued it onto one of our dolls. My son thought that was awesome, and wanted an eyepatch of his own.

Single Clothespin Pirate Dolls- pirate with a red pants, white shirt, and black hat, and googly eyes — Don’t forget to add a felt hat and googly eyes.

Tips: Don’t want to use sharpie markers? Sharpies can be messy if you have younger kids. So, using acrylic paint pens may also be useful.

Two Clothespin Pirate Dolls made of wood clothespins with pirate clothes, brown pants, white pants, and with red shirt, and red and white shirt — These pirate dolls are so fun and easy to make.

Variations Of This Clothespin Pirate Doll Craft

I also tried using paints. They worked great and can be a fun variation for older kids. Acrylic paints work best on these wood clothespins.

Pirate clothes pin crafts being painted with red paint, with red pants, black pants, a red shirt, and black and white shirt, googly eyes, and black felt hat — You can paint your clothespins instead of using markers.

Supplies Recommended To Make Clothespin Pirate Dolls

paintbrush
white paint
brown paint
red paint

You could even dress them up differently! Give them red pants! Black pants! You could even give them blue pants.

Easy, right? The best part is that your imagination is your only limit.

Clothespin Pirate Dolls

Materials

Wooden clothespins
Black and white felt
Red marker
Black marker
White marker
Hot glue gun and glue

Instructions

Start by gluing the googly eyes onto the face of the clothespin.

Cut the black felt into the shape of a pirate hat. Then cut the white felt to look like a skull. You can draw eyes onto the skull with the black marker.

Glue the skull onto the hat and then the hat onto the clothespin.

More Fun Pirate Crafts For Kids From Kids Activities Blog

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