Glittered Clothespin Wine Charms for Kids to Make and Give

Turn ordinary clothespins into glittered clothespin wine charms with this easy DIY. Kids of all ages will love this simple but gorgeous craft idea!

I’m super-excited to show you the awesome clothespin wine charms that the hooligans made last week using regular wooden clothespins. These wine charms are fun to make and they’re a great homemade gift for kids to give to parents, teachers, or grandparents for entertaining.

Glittered Clothespin Wine Charms for Kids to Make and Give - Happy Hooligans

This is such an easy craft for kids to make and the results are really beautiful. Preschoolers and young elementary school children will be able to make these without much help, and teens and tweens will love it.

You’ll also love our cork and clothespin nutcracker ornaments!

Heck, even the grown-ups will enjoy this one. I made made a set of these wine charms for myself, and totally had fun doing it.

I got the inspiration for this craft when I was shopping at Winners the other day. I spotted some fancy wine glass charms that were shaped like clothespins. They were really pricey, and as soon as I saw them, I thought, hey, we could totally make these using real clothespins, and they’d cost just pennies to make! I thought they’d make a great homemade gift for the kids to give for Mother’s Day or for Christmas or a birthday.

You may also like our wine cork crafts: wine cork reindeer, wine cork angels and wine cork snowmen.

I just happened to have a bunch of new wooden clothespins leftover from the monarch butterfly craft that we made last month.

orange and pink glittered clothespin wine gass charms

To colour our clothespins, I decided we would experiment with two different mediums: liquid watercolours and acrylic craft paint, and to embellish them, we would use glitter.

The kids had a lot of fun making each wine charm unique, and the results were GORGEOUS!

If you have an aversion to glitter, don’t worry – we varnished our finished wine charms to make sure the glitter would stay put.

You may also like our Painted Wine Bottle Watering Cans and our Decoupage Wine Bottle Candle Holders.

How to make Glittered Clothespin Wine Charms

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We started by colouring our clothespins. We painted some with the acrylic paints, and others, we brushed with undiluted liquid watercolours.

In the next photo, you can see the liquid watercolours being applied, and underneath, some clothespins that we painted with acrylic craft paint.

When our clothespins were dry, it was GLITTER-TIME.

Like most children, the hooligans LOVE glitter. For many years, I did not! I only started using it in my daycare in recent years, and you know what? I love it now too. I don’t love the mess it makes, but when we use it in a way that it can be somewhat contained (today we’re sealing it with varnish), I adore it.

Glitter really does make everything better!

Got an aversion to glitter?

If you simply cannot bring yourself to deal with glitter, fear not. You can use craft gems and jewels to add some glitz and glamour to your wine charms.

For the glittering of the wine charms, we brushed the tops of the clothespins with white glue, and then sprinkled them with glitter until they were well coated.

painted clothespins for wine glass charms

Some hooligans chose to decorate the sides of their clothespins so the glittered side would be facing up rather than sideways when clipped to the wine glass.

painted glittered clothespins and wine glass

Some chose to sprinkle just one colour of glitter on each clothespin and some sprinkled 2 or more colours on each.

Varnish so the glitter stays put:

When our wine charms were dry, we brushed each one with a coat of clear craft varnish to seal the layer of glitter. I figured the recipients of our wine charms would appreciate that we added that extra step. 🙂

We brushed the entire clothespin so the colours on the sides and bottom would have a nice sheen. We couldn’t lay them flat on the table to dry because the bottoms were varnished, so we clipped them to paper plates to let them dry.

Aren’t they absolutely beautiful?