1Paint some wooden clothespins.

Paint a wooden clothespin to make a dragonfly's body. You can paint it with a single color or make a multi-colored dragonfly.

2Make a pair of wings.

We've made two options for the wings:

a.)   See-through wings - draw two pairs of wings on transparency film or any plastic film using a permanent marker. Draw lines that branch out from the center of the wings.

b.)   Paper wings - paper wings would work just as well. You can easily make them by folding a piece of colored paper in the middle. Draw one top and one slightly smaller bottom wing along the folded edge of the paper.

3Cut out the wings.

Cut out the see-through wings along the wing outline.

For the paper wings, keep the paper folded then cut along the wing outline. Unfold the paper.

4Decorate the wings.

You can leave the see-through wings unpainted. However, you can add a tinge of color by painting it with a colored glue mixture. Place a small amount of clear liquid glue or white glue on your palette. Add a drop of food coloring and a drop of liquid dishwash soap into the mixture. Stir well before using the mixture to paint the wings. Set aside to dry.

Decorate them paper wings by drawing colorful lines and patterns on them. You can also glue small paper shapes like I did.

5Glue the wings.

Pinch open the clothespin and glue the middle section of the wings onto the top prong's inner side.

Clip the clothespin onto something while waiting for the glue to dry. This will prevent the clothespin from being accidentally glued shut.

6Glue eyes.

Finally, glue a pair of wiggle eyes.