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Print out the clothespin farm animals set on white card stock or draw your own animals. Notice the animals come in mirror-image pairs. |
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Color and cut out the animals. |
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Glue the animal pairs back-to-back. |
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Clip on wooden clothespins to make the animal's legs: one clothespin for two-legged animals and two for four-legged animals.
If you want to build a box corral for your farm animals, continue with the steps below. |
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Trim off the top panel off a tissue box or any box that can accomodate your clothespin farm animals. Staple the side flaps if necessary. |
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Paint the outside of the box with any dark-colored acrylic paint. |
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Cut strips from construction paper. You'll need about 14 or more of these to build a fence around your box. |
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Glue the paper strips around the box. |
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Use colored tape or glue on a very long strip of paper around the entire middle section of the box to complete your fence. |
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You may further decorate your box corral if you like. I cut green paper with a pair of zigzag-edged scissors to make some grass and glued these around the bottom edge of my box. |
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I added some flowers that I punched out using a flower hole punch. You can also use ready-made flower stickers, sequins or craft foam shapes. |
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After playing with your cute clothespin farm animals, you can let them rest inside their pretty box corral! |
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