Spooky Halloween Clothespin Napkin Wreath

I’m bringing back the Clothespin Wreath for Halloween, but this time in a different way! And pink! Make a cute, fun and easy DIY with cardboard, a napkin, and a Dollar Tree Spooky Ghost cutout. This is a clothespin wreath like you’ve never seen before!

See that gorgeous floral skull napkin on the clothespins? That was one of the napkins from my Big Pack of Craftkins napkin subscription!

A black cardboard donut shape, with clothespins all around it to make a DIY Halloween wreath shape. The clothes pins are decoupaged pink and purple floral skull napkins, purple and white, and the center is a Dollar Tree Wood cutout of a ghost and the word spooky painted pink, with a buffalo check ribbon hanger.

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Clothespins wreaths were sooooo popular for sooooo long, but they kind of faded out a few years back. Well, I am reviving it this year, but in a different way…..

With cardboard! So no need to even buy a wire wreath form to make this one.

You could make this with ANY napkin and any embellishments you want. It of course doesn’t have to be pink Halloween like mine, you could even make a Fall or Christmas clothespin wreath too.

But if you DO love the pink Halloween theme like me, be sure to check out the Dollar Tree BOO Ghost I made to go along with this one!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Spooky Halloween Clothespin Wreath

White clothespins, Dollar Tree spooky ghost cutout and a floral skull napkin supplies.

The outline of the project before it is painted decoupaged and completed. The clothespins are arranged around the "spooky" ghost.

24 Clothespins
Cardboard
Dollar Tree ‘Spooky” ghost cutout
Floral Skull Napkin
Buffalo check ribbon
Black bakers twine
Tim Holtz Distressed Ink
Paint: Black, White, Pink, Purple
Mod Podge
Hot glue gun

How to Make a Spooky Halloween Clothespin Napkin Wreath

I made this Halloween Clothespin Wreath on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

The youtube thumbnail of the completed project video.

Watch the video HERE

First thing I did was trace two bowls onto a piece of cardboard. One just a bit bigger than the other, to make a donut shape. The donut is about 2 inches thick.

Tracing a small bowl onto a piece of cardboard to make a donut shape.

Next, I cut the donut shape out with a good box cutter.

Cutting out the donut shape cardboard with a box cutter.

Then, I painted the entire cardboard donut all black.

Painting the cardboard donut shape all black.

Now for the clothespins. I took my napkin and separated the plys to get it down to one ply.

Peeling apart the plys if the floral skull napkin to attach to the clothespins for the Halloween wreath.

I then used Mod Podge to decoupage the napkin to the top of the clothespins. I did a total of 18 decoupaged clothespins. The fastest way was to stick them all down to the napkin next to each other in a row, and then use scissors and cut them apart, rather them do them one at a time.

Decoupaging the floral skull napkin to the white clothespins for the Halloween wreath.

I used my gator sander to sand all the excess napkin from the clothespins.

Sanding the excess floral skull napkin off the clothespin for the Halloween wreath.

I wanted to add a bit more color in and pull the purple from the napkins, so I painted 3 clothespins purple.

I also used 3 white clothespins, but I had them spray painted and left over from a previous project, so I didn’t have to paint them for this project.

For the Dollar Tree Spooky Ghost cutout, I painted the ghost white and the “Spooky” pink (color is Apple Barrel “Fruit Punch” mixed with “Pure pink”).

Painting the Dollar Tree ghost and spooky wood cutout pink to glue to the center of the Halloween Clothespin wreath.

The white on the clothespins and the ghost was TOO white, so I distressed it a bit with my Tim Holtz Distressed Ink by rubbing it lightly on the edges.

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in the color black soot.

Now for the hanger, I looped a piece of buffalo check ribbon around the top of the donut, and then glued the edges together.

Tying buffalo check ribbon around the top of the cardboard donut to make a hanger.

I realized I wouldn’t be able to actually hang it this way, so I then added a small black bakers twine loop to the top, and that worked out great!

Making a small bakers twine loop at the top to hang the DIY Halloween Clothespin wreath.

To make it all pretty I made a simple buffalo check bow and glued that to the top of the hanger.

Adding a simple buffalo check bow to the top of the hanger.

Let’s put it all together! I started clipping the clothespins around the donut in the following pattern: 3 Decoupaged napkin, 1 white, 3 decoupaged napkin, 1 purple, and then repeat.

Clipping the clothespins around the cardboard donut to make the shape of the wreath.

I put on the finishing touch by gluing the Spooky Ghost to the front and center of the clothespin wreath.

Gluing the Dollar Tree Spooky Ghost cutout to the center of the Halloween wreath.

Here’s what it looks like from the back.

Showing the back of the Halloween Clothespin Wreath.

Here she is in all her glory! AHHH Oh em gee I am so in LOVE with this one! It looks so fab with my Dollar Tree BOO Ghost I made too.

This floral skull napkin from my Big Pack of Craftkins is just perfect for this clothespin wreath project!

Close up of the decoupaged clothespins with the floral skull napkin and white painted clothespins with distress ink.

And the Dollar Tree supplies for the WIN!

Close up of the center of the wreath with the Dollar Tree Spooky Ghost wood cutout painted pink.

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