5 Unusual Ways to Use Clothes Pegs

Everyone knows the direct purpose of clothespins - attaching clothes to clotheslines. However, thanks to the creative potential of different people, the range of uses of clothespins has expanded significantly today. They make original crafts and useful things used in the household.

Organizer

The life of a modern person is a series of endless tasks and responsibilities. The list of them is so long that sometimes only the most important and priority tasks are remembered. A creative assistant made of clothespins will remind you of all the necessary tasks for the day. Making such an organizer is not difficult.

Reference! In addition to clothespins, to create an organizer you will need acrylic paints or gouache, a brush, a marker, and string.

First, you need to decorate the holders with paint or gouache, then label each clothespin with a marker by day of the week from Monday to Friday or even Sunday. You need to be creative when choosing a place to attach a unique organizer. It can be held on the refrigerator with magnets or made in the form of a poster and attached in a visible place. Next, you need to hang multi-colored clips on a string, and insert into them a list of necessary tasks for each day in accordance with the inscriptions.

Hanger for kitchen utensils

Every housewife will appreciate a non-standard kitchen hanger made of clothespins. Regular hooks are not able to firmly hold the following kitchen utensils:

• aprons;
• potholders;
• towels;
• latex gloves;
• rags.

Making a hanger is not difficult, but you will have to spend time assembling it. The basis will be an attractive looking board to which clothespins are glued with special glue. Depending on the preferences of the housewife, you can glue them in one row, in two rows or in a checkerboard pattern.. Next, the board is mounted on the wall in a convenient place and kitchen utensils are hung in the right order.

Nail holder

Hammering a nail into a wall turns out to be a difficult task for a beginner. In theory, everything looks very simple and it even seems fun to draw attention to such a problem. But practice shows that this little thing can ruin your mood and even lead to injuries to your fingers. The thing is that the nail is too small and the hammer is too large and the likelihood of hitting your fingers is very high.

A clothespin, which will act as a holder for a nail, will come to the rescue in such an important matter. You only need to prepare it - you need to make small grooves in the place where the nail is fixed to effectively hold it. Now you can safely and, most importantly, drive nails safely.

Attention! With this holder you can teach little boys how to hammer nails. However, parents should not forget to control this process.

Educational children's games

Recently, unusual methods of teaching children have often been used. At home, it is also possible to make an interesting mathematical game using clothespins.

First you need to prepare cards with numbers in a row, where some of them will be missed. Then write different numbers on the clothespins with a marker - the more numbers, the better. The child must correctly attach the clothespins with numbers to the card. Thanks to this method, the baby develops his mathematical abilities and also develops fine motor skills.

There are many variations of this game:

1. Examples for addition and subtraction.
2. Performing equality and inequality of numbers.
3. Finding larger and smaller numbers.
4. Counting numbers in order and in reverse order.

Attention! Any learning process should be carried out in an interesting game form. It is necessary to instill useful knowledge and skills in a child without psychological pressure and excessive persistence.

Headphone clips

One of the most boring processes is untangling headphone wires. Such a wire always gets tangled, no matter how carefully it is placed in a bag or pocket. The solution to the problem is to use a special device for winding the wire from the headphones.

As such a device, you can use two ordinary clothespins, glued together on the side with a “jack”. You need to secure the headphones with one clip, then wrap the cord around the clothespins, and secure the edge of the wire with the second clip. This interesting mechanism for twisting the wire will ensure convenient use of this personal device for listening to music.