She publishes Dollar Store Crafts, a daily blog devoted to hip crafting at dollar store prices, CROQ Zine, a print magazine devoted to hip crafting, and also CraftFail, a community blog that encourages crafters to share their not-so-successful craft attempts. She’s is the mother of two boys under age 3, and another boy on the way. Heather Mann is a regular contributor at Make and Takes. In fact, my son was stretching out the neck and making the dinosaur move around, and he didn’t care that it didn’t maintain its original shape!) If you make any good discoveries when you make yours, please share! (Maybe this is just a grown-up perfectionism problem, though… I’m pretty sure kids don’t care. It’s hard to maintain the shape when you continue to handle the coils. There are a variety of excellent pipe cleaner ideas in this collection, including Christmas pipe cleaner crafts and Easter pipe cleaner crafts. They are great because they’re so easy to bend and shape, but that’s also a drawback. Twist and shape your pipe cleaners into butterflies and flowers, use them to make antlers and unicorn horns, or simply add them as embellishments to other projects. I would like to experiment with this project a bit more to try to stabilize the pipe cleaners more. You might be better off with hot glue (although, this is a job for you, not your kids. I used “quick dry” craft glue, and honestly, it didn’t work that well with the pipe cleaner fuzz. The one-pipe cleaner legs don’t hold the T-Rex up very well!) (Mine are wonky – I only had 8 pipe cleaners in red, so I couldn’t make the legs as beefy as I wanted.
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