Clothespin Gift Toppers

As the holidays draw near, it’s time to think about wrapping gifts. Clothespin gift toppers add visual appeal to wrapped gifts and they can double as holiday ornaments—they pin right onto Christmas tree branches. I initially thought these gift toppers would take a lot of time to make but I was mistaken. These are so quick and simple to create that I wish I had bought more clothespins.

Clothespin Gift Toppers

Materials to Make Clothespin Gift Toppers

• Plain wood clothespins
• A set of miniature alphabet letter stamps ( I found a set at Michael’s for less than 2$)
• A rubber stamp ink pad in the color of your choice

  

• Various holiday figurines and decorations (make sure they are small enough to fit the end of a clothespin)
• Super glue or E 600 glue
• White glue
• Ribbon (optional)

Directions to Make Clothespin Gift Toppers

1. Use your alphabet stamps to spell out different holiday-themed words onto your clothespins. I chose LOVE, PEACE and JOY. If you are spelling the same word on multiple clothespins, JOY for example, you can save time by stamping all the pins with J, then doing all the O’s, and then the  Y’s.

   

2. Allow the ink to dry on the clothespins.
3. Glue your figurines and decorations onto the clothespin tips. If you are glueing wood items to your clothespins, then use white glue. If you are glueing plastic items to your clothespins, use super glue or E600 glue.
4. You can also glue strips of ribbon to your clothespins (I used thin ric rac ribbon trim on a couple of mine)
5. Allow the gift toppers to dry.
6. To attach a clothespin gift topper to a gift, first wrap the gift in ribbon or twine and then clip the clothespin where the ribbon meets in the center.  If using these for ornaments, simply clip them onto a Christmas tree branch.