[Easy & Fun] Craft Ideas Using Pipe Cleaners
Pipe cleaners can be used for a variety of purposes—bundling items, decoration, and wrapping.
Because they have thin wire inside, you can bend them into any shape you like, and their easy availability at 100-yen shops has made them popular for crafts in recent years.
In this article, we introduce a range of craft ideas using pipe cleaners.
Some of these ideas are perfect for school research projects, so if something catches your eye, give it a try.
Using pipe cleaners in a variety of colors will help you create even more attractive pieces.
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[Easy & Fun] Craft Ideas Using Pipe Cleaners (1–10)
Mimosa wreath
As spring approaches, you can spot mimosa blooming here and there.
It’s become very popular in recent years, and those tiny, round yellow blossoms are just adorable.
How about making a cute wreath inspired by mimosa using only materials from a 100-yen shop? It’s super easy: thread small yellow pom-poms onto green pipe cleaners, then insert them into a wreath base of your preferred size.
You can also use a glue gun to add pearls or other beads for a more festive look.
Since you’re using pipe cleaners, they slide easily into the wreath base, and finishing the ends is simple—so you’ll have it done in no time!
bracelet
Making pipe cleaner bracelets is surprisingly easy.
By combining pipe cleaners of different thicknesses and colors, or braiding them, you can create your own original accessories.
It’s also great to make them together as a parent-child activity.
It helps nurture your child’s creativity and makes for wonderful memories.
Using colorful pipe cleaners is exciting just to look at.
Gifting a bracelet you made yourself is lovely, too.
Take advantage of the softness of pipe cleaners and have fun with free, creative ideas.
Drawing at the mall
Here’s an idea: try making pictures using pipe cleaners.
You can buy them even at 100-yen shops—they’re very colorful and come in large packs.
Bend the colorful pipe cleaners into any shapes you like, trim off the excess, and stick them onto drawing paper.
For a start, arrange them loosely, then attach them with cellophane tape while checking the balance.
Even if you don’t use drawing paper, you can glue them onto a plastic board with a hot glue gun to make a simple signboard or display.
[Easy & Fun] Craft Ideas Using Pipe Cleaners (11–20)
living thing
The great thing about pipe cleaners is how versatile they are—you can make all kinds of things.
How about using them to create your favorite animals and creatures? Look at field guides or photos and freely craft creatures however you like.
You can shape them freehand by rolling and bending, or wrap them around a pen to make coils for an animal’s body.
It would be fun to make lots of animals and create a zoo, or make aquatic creatures and set up an aquarium scene!
Sweets card stand
Let’s make a memo stand that expresses sweet, cute desserts using pipe cleaners! Roll two colors of pipe cleaners together to create the dessert; use white for one of them to represent whipped cream.
Align them so the white ends up slightly shorter, twist them into a spiral, and attach it to a wooden clip with wood glue.
Add a small decoration ball and a short green pipe cleaner on top to look like fruit perched on a Swiss roll, and it’s done.
Try making lots in different colors—they’d make great gifts, too.
A doll that can strike various poses
The great thing about pipe cleaners is that you can freely change their shape, right? Let’s use that advantage to make a doll with bendable joints! Besides pipe cleaners, you’ll need straws and beads.
Cut the straws into eight pieces: four for the legs and four for the arms.
Make the leg pieces 2 cm long and the arm pieces 1 cm long.
Twist two pipe cleaners together, thread on the straw pieces, and use beads to secure the joints and torso.
Finally, use the remaining pipe cleaner to make the face, and you’re done.
If you connect multiple pipe cleaners, you can make a larger doll, too.
Star ornament
Would you like to make a cute star-shaped ornament with pipe cleaners? First, twist together two different colors of pipe cleaners.
Once twisted, shape them into a triangle, and wrap the ends around the triangle so they don’t stick out.
Next, wrap another triangle of the same size in the opposite direction so it overlaps the first triangle.
Finally, attach a string for hanging, and you’re done.
Use red and green for a Christmas ornament, or choose other colors for everyday decorations.