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45 Colorful and Cute Pipe Cleaner Crafts for Kids

pipe cleaner crafts

April 18, 2022 //  by Mhairi Sim

Pipe cleaners are a staple of any craft storeroom across the country, so it's no wonder that these crafts are so popular among both teachers and kids.

We've gathered 45 of the most amazing pipe cleaner craft ideas to make your craft time fun and exciting for your kids. Grab your different colored pipe cleaners, googly eyes, and glue, and, let's get started!

1. Pipe Cleaner Animals

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With many different crafts to make in this collection of animals, students are sure to find something to make! For these simple and easy-to-follow crafts, you will just need some quality craft pipe cleaners, glue, and googly eyes.

Learn more: Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls

2. Pipe Cleaner Bees

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These cute pipe cleaner bumble bees are simple to make and great to get students talking about how to protect our bees, as they are so important to humans!

Learn more: Blissful Domestication

3. Pipe Cleaner Easter Eggs

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This cute pipe cleaner project is perfect for Easter. Create these fun and pretty eggs to use as decoration, or to hide for an Easter egg hunt.

Learn more: Pajama Crafters

4. Flower Bookmark Craft

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Using different colors of pipe cleaners and buttons with some craft lolly pop sticks students can easily make these cute and practical bookmarks.

Learn more: Fun Learning Life

 5. Rainbow Jellyfish

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These super cool crafts are sure to brighten up any classroom. Using colorful pipe cleaners and some Styrofoam balls, these jellyfish are easy to create and are really effective.

Learn more: Crafts by Amanda

6. Bendable Monkeys

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This simple craft uses basic supplies and is a favorite among younger kids. They can stick their monkey template together with the pipe cleaners and have fun hanging the finished product in silly places for others to find.

Learn more: My Creative Life

7. Pipe Cleaner Starfish

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Create some cute underwater creatures with this fun starfish pipe cleaner craft. This is really simple and ideal for younger kids who can follow simple steps to create this awesome craft!

Learn more: Glued to My Crafts

8. Painted Fireworks Craft

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This activity is a super activity for around the 4th of July as students can create their very own fireworks display. They can shape their pipe cleaners in different ways to great different shapes of fireworks and can experiment with using different colors.

Learn more: The Mad House

9. Pipe Cleaner Letters

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This activity is a superb active spelling task for younger kids who are getting familiar with the alphabet. They can either have a go at the whole thing or just focus on creating a few of their target letter with some pipe cleaners.

Learn more: Makes and Takes

10. Make Forky from Toy Story 4

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This craft is sure to be a hit among children who are Toy Story fans. Kids can make their very own Forky from Toy Story 4. Forky is super easy to make and only requires a few materials.

Learn more: Simple Everyday Mom

11. Pipe Cleaner Rainbow

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This gorgeous craft is simple to make and is a great challenge for younger kids. Grab a handful of colorful pipe cleaners and let them have a go.

Learn more: Preschool Inspiration

12. Stamped Heart Print

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This clever pipe cleaner technique uses pipe cleaners to create a shape that students can then use as a stamper, with some paint. This activity uses love hearts as the shape, but students could create their own designs for their stampers.

Learn more: Hands On As We Grow

13. Pipe Cleaner Rainbow Tree Color Matching

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Use a bundle of rainbow pipe cleaners to make this tree, then give your students different colored plastic beads and get them to thread them on the branch of the pipe cleaner tree that matches the color of the bead.

Learn more: School Time Snippets

14. Wacky Bookmarks

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These wacky pipe cleaner bookmarks are easy to make and also a low-cost activity. Just grab some paper clips, some small pieces of pipe cleaner, and, googly eyes.

Learn more: Free Kids Crafts

15.  Pipe Cleaner Turkey

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This cute Thanksgiving craft is easy to make and makes for a great decoration for either in the class or for students to take home.

Learn more: Mess For Less

16. Valentine's Garland

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This cute valentine's garland is easy to make and is a cute way for students to decorate the classroom for this holiday. Using bendable pipe cleaners, each student can create a link for the garland and keep adding to make it as long as they want.

Learn more: We Know Stuff

17. Fairy Princess Wand

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These fairy princess wands are simple to make and will add a little touch of the magical homemade dress-up time!

Learn more: Meaningful Mama

18. DIY: How to make a cute pip cleaner snail

This simple DIY video shows how to make these super cute pipe cleaner snails. The video is easy to follow.

Learn more: Miss Tricks Mix Crafts and DIY

19. Pipe Cleaner Snowman

This cool snowman pipe cleaner craft is ideal when the colder weather blows in and students are keen to get outside to make their own snowmen!

Learn more: Baker Ross

20. Pipe Cleaner Cacti

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These cool cacti are a great craft to get students thinking about how structures work. Depending on how sturdy your pipe cleaners are, students will need to consider how best to shape their cacti to get them to stay standing.

Learn more: Handmade Charlotte

21. Pipe Cleaners and Paper Crab Craft

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This super simple and fun craft is ideal for kids of any age. For younger students you can cut out all the shapes they will need, whereas you can leave the older students to figure it out for themselves.

Learn more: Easy Peasy and Fun

22. Egg Carton Whale Craft for Kids

33. Handprint Flower Craft

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This sweet craft is a great keepsake gift for students to take home for their parents. The handprint painting is also fun for kids who love to get a bit messy!

Learn more: Mess For Less

34. Pipe Cleaner Hedgehog Craft

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These awesome hedgehogs are simple to make using only some small pipe cleaner pieces and some playdough or salt dough. Add some googly eyes and you're done!

Learn more: Craftulate

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This junk modeling craft is a great way to upcycle egg cartons into cute whales! These crafts are ideal if your class is learning about the oceans.

Learn more: I Heart Crafty Things

23. Pipe Cleaner Pinecone Weaving

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Pinecone weaving is a great way to incorporate natural materials into a craft. This craft is also great for developing fine motor skills in young students.

Learn more: Rainy Day Mum

24. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft

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Everyone loves the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and they'll love this cute and simple craft too! These easy-to-follow steps ensure this craft is ideal for anyone to complete after reading this classic book!

Learn more: Messy Little Monster

25. Carrot Pipe Cleaner Craft

Super simple pipe cleaner carrots could be a great addition to go along with any Easter bunny crafts.

Learn more: Skymagenta Craft

26. Pipe Cleaner Mazes

These mazes are easy to make using pipe cleaners, paper, glue, and then a Polly pocket. Use these activities to help students develop pen/pencil control as they draw their way around the obstacles.

Learn more: Pinterest

27. No Prep Fine Motor Pipe Cleaner Activity

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This is a superb fine motor activity where kids can thread pipe cleaners through a pasta colander. Challenge students to create cool patterns or designs as they complete this activity.

Learn more: Hands On As We Grow

28. DIY Bunny Ears

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These cute bunny ears are an ideal craft for Easter. Get your hands on some large pipe cleaners and a headband and you are all set!

Learn more: Inspiration Made Simple

Let students add a bit of their own creative spark to dress-up time or costume parties by getting them to make their own crowns out of pipe cleaners.

Learn more: Alfa Genius

29. Pipe Cleaner Dream Catcher

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These intricate and stunning crafts are perfect for more experienced crafters. Students can make their designs as simple or as intricate as they like. Students can research what the number of points on dream catchers means and decide how they would like to make theirs.

Learn more: The Pinterested Parent

30. Valentines Glasses

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Pipe cleaner glasses are fun to make and are a great addition to dress-up time.

Learn more: Curious and Geeks

31. Spring Flower Pipe Cleaner Craft

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These cute spring flowers are easy to make and use real seeds that students can plant and watch grow after they have enjoyed their craft.

Learn more: Hands On As We Grow

32. Three Easy Flowers using Pipe Cleaners

This DIY crafting video tutorial is great for the dinosaur fans in your class! This cute pipe cleaner T-Rexs craft for kids is sure to be a hit.

Learn more: Eager Crafts

These pipe cleaner flowers are a great way to upcycle any glass jars or pots you have. They will make cute decorations.

Learn more: Ventuno Art

35. How to make a Pipe Cleaner Basket

This DIY video shows how to make a colorful flower basket using pipe cleaners. This is a great craft and decoration for springtime.

Learn more: Pipe Cleaner Crafts B

36. Junk Model Robots

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Make these cute chairs with only a couple of colors of pipe cleaners to make a wacky addition to doll houses.

Learn more: Pipe Cleaner Crafts B

37. Egg Carton Turtle Craft

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This adorable craft activity is super simple for kids and is pretty low-cost. Ask your students to bring in old egg cartons to use for this craft.

Learn more: Learn Play Imagine

38. How to make a Pipe Cleaner Chair

This fun craft project can be completed with assorted colors of pipe cleaners and other crafting materials and is a great way to jazz up recycled cans.

Learn more: Learn Play Imagine

39. Pipe Cleaner Ants

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This craft with pipe cleaners is perfect for topics on bugs. This is super simple and great for toddlers!

Learn more: Learn Play Imagine

40. Button Bracelets

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Students can get creative using different combinations of colors of buttons and pipe cleaners in this cool bracelet craft which is perfect for an afternoon of crafting.

Learn more: Meaningful Mama

41. Pipe Cleaner Crown

42. Flower Bouquet Card

These sweet pipe cleaner flower cards are a perfect craft for Mothers' Day for students to create and write a message to their moms.

Learn more: Glued to My Crafts

43. Fine Motor Counting Activity

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This fun active math activity uses pipe cleaners and plastic beads to get students counting. It's super fun and super easy to set up.

Learn more: Mess For Less

44. Ring Stacking Activity

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This easy-to-set-up activity is great for toddlers practicing their fine motor skills.

Learn more: Hands On As We Grow

45. T-Rex Pipe Cleaner Craft

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