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
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.
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2. Pipe Cleaner Bees
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!
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3. Pipe Cleaner Easter Eggs
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.
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4. Flower Bookmark Craft
Using different colors of pipe cleaners and buttons with some craft lolly pop sticks students can easily make these cute and practical bookmarks.
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5. Rainbow Jellyfish
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.
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6. Bendable Monkeys
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.
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7. Pipe Cleaner Starfish
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!
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8. Painted Fireworks Craft
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.
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9. Pipe Cleaner Letters
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.
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10. Make Forky from Toy Story 4
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.
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11. Pipe Cleaner Rainbow
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.
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12. Stamped Heart Print
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.
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13. Pipe Cleaner Rainbow Tree Color Matching
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.
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14. Wacky Bookmarks
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.
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15. Pipe Cleaner Turkey
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.
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16. Valentine's Garland
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.
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17. Fairy Princess Wand
These fairy princess wands are simple to make and will add a little touch of the magical homemade dress-up time!
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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.
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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!
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20. Pipe Cleaner Cacti
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.
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21. Pipe Cleaners and Paper Crab Craft
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.
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33. Handprint Flower Craft
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!
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34. Pipe Cleaner Hedgehog Craft
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!
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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.
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23. Pipe Cleaner Pinecone Weaving
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.
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24. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft
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!
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25. Carrot Pipe Cleaner Craft
Super simple pipe cleaner carrots could be a great addition to go along with any Easter bunny crafts.
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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.
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27. No Prep Fine Motor Pipe Cleaner Activity
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.
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28. DIY Bunny Ears
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!
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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.
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29. Pipe Cleaner Dream Catcher
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.
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30. Valentines Glasses
Pipe cleaner glasses are fun to make and are a great addition to dress-up time.
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31. Spring Flower Pipe Cleaner Craft
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.
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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.
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These pipe cleaner flowers are a great way to upcycle any glass jars or pots you have. They will make cute decorations.
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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.
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36. Junk Model Robots
Make these cute chairs with only a couple of colors of pipe cleaners to make a wacky addition to doll houses.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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40. Button Bracelets
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.
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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.
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43. Fine Motor Counting Activity
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.
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44. Ring Stacking Activity
This easy-to-set-up activity is great for toddlers practicing their fine motor skills.
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