I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

Clothespin Paper Puppets – free printable

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Make these sweet, colorful, and quirky paper puppets using clothespins – aren’t they precious? M had the time of his life holding a conversation between the two…  You can get really creative with these and then use the leftovers to make dozens more clothespin crafts. Disclosure: this post contains affiliate ads.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

I thought it would be cool to make some quirky character puppets out of clothespins, so that you can open and close the mouth by pinching the clothespin. I must have drawn the template five times before I realized that I need to do a profile view instead of a front view…

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

Once I had it figured out, it came out really cute. I love a craft where you can get creative and add your own touch. Besides for choosing which colors you make these paper puppets, you can also pick the wildest hair colors, add accessories like googly eyes and small pompom noses… the possibilities are endless!

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

The hair is made similarly to how you’d make a pompom but you just wrap the yarn fewer times, so that it doesn’t puff into a circle. On the purple-haired puppet, I wrapped three fingers but tied it 1/3 of the way through instead of halfway so that you have “long” hair. On the others I did it mostly midway so that there’s  a puff of hair on top.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

I colored the paper puppets using STABILO Power markers. I chose for the most part unrealistic colors for the faces and noses, to give it a fun character/monster vibe. M really had fun holding fake conversations between them!

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

You can make the puppets two-sided if you want (I did with the orange-haired and the blue-faced ones). I included opposite-facing profiles for you in case you want to do that, but you will need to wait for one side to dry before moving on to the next.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

These clothespin puppets really ignite the imagination – I hope you’ll enjoy them!

What you need to make paper puppets from clothespins

How to make quirky clothespin paper puppets

Watch the video tutorial below, or scroll down for step-by-step instructions:

1. Color your faces.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

2. Cut out your faces.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

3. Cut across the line that splits the face in half.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

4. Create your hair! Wind some yarn around 2-3 fingers. Snip a small piece and tie it around the bundle of yarn in the center (or off-center). Pull tight.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

Cut the loops open on both sides of  your “pom pom”.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

5. Glue your hair to the top of your face.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

6.  Add googly eyes and other fun stuff if you want.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

7. Put it together! Glue the top of the face to the top half of your clothespin. Glue the bottom to the bottom half. Make sure you don’t glue the clothespin closed. Hold it in place until it starts sticking.

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

Now, put on a show!

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

Aren’t these paper puppets fun? I love this spin on clothespin crafts and I hope you’ve enjoyed it too!

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

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I hope you enjoyed these clothespin puppets! What is your favorite way to craft with clothespins? Comment below!

I love these adorable quirky paper puppets - with mouthes that open and close with a clothespin! Love this unique, easy clothespin craft for kids (or adults). It includes a free printable for the faces, which you can then color in, and add yarn and googly eyes for character. This free printable coloring page craft is so cool!

Clothespin Paper Puppets

Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Estimated Cost: Less than $1

These clothespin puppets make a fun craft for preschoolers through big kids. Use it for dramatic play, to exercise fine motor skills, or just make it for fun!

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  1. This looks great. I’m going to use it with my year threes for English. I can’t locate the template though. It’s probably staring me in the face. Would you mind either emailing it to me or giving me simple directions to locate it. Thanks Pauline

  2. Totally making these with my little nieces. Looks like lots of fun and also a great way to use some yarn scraps. Thanks!

    1. Hi Barbara, thank you for stopping by! I did on some! It really depends how you’ll be using it. If you plan to put on a puppet show, you probably should, since then the puppets can face either direction. If it’s being used as a learning tool (language, communication, music, pincer grasp, etc) or just for the sake of making a cute craft, you really don’t need to. I did provide mirror images of each face in case you want to do both sides.

  3. I made these with my Sunday School Class and inside the mouth, we did accordine folded bible verses as the tongue. We did a lesson on spreading God’s word. I would love to send you a photo if possible?

  4. So cute! I too tried to download the template, but could not do it. Would you mind sending it to my email please. I would love to do this with my granddaughter. Thank you!
    Rebecca Lumsden

  5. I would like to do this with my class of poor kids in the slums. but here is no template and I have 50 kids.

    1. Hi Sarah, The download form is right in the middle of the supplies list. If you’re having trouble with it, feel free to email me at menucha -at- momsandcrafters – dot-com. I do allow classroom use for this.

  6. Hola. Me encantaron tus títeres. Leí que probaste varias veces para ver cómo debías hacer las caras. Mirándolos se me ocurrió que si quieres hacerlos vistos desde el frente, tendrías que colocar el palillo en la otra posición, pegando la cara donde abre el palillo, y así te quedaría el rostro abriendo la boca de frente. Voy a intentarlo. Gracias por compartir la idea.

  7. Made some of these with one of my grandsons during the christmas holidays,we have 10 grandchildren so as one more saw it they wanted them so I can just about make these in my sleep.they had great fun making them and it was great fun listening to then putting on a show with them

  8. Hi there These are so cute but I cannot download the template. Would you mind sending this to me? Thanks so much

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