How to make a Art/Photo display

If your children's school is like my children's school they bring home artwork and of course they don't want anything ever to end up in the trash! I found this art/photo display hanger very useful. 

I first went to Michael's craft store Michaels.com; any craft store you have locally will work too. 

I have two boys, one is very into sports so I started with that one first. My oldest loves basketball, we picked up two already painted wooden basketballs, some sturdy heavy duty twine and some clothes pins. We got a few smaller wooden sports embellishments to add to our clothes pins.  

Once home we gathered our supplies,

2 Wooden Basketballs
5-6 Wooden Clothes pins
3-4 embellishments (for this one we used mini basketballs)
5-6 feet of our twine (longer if you'd like or have the space to hang it)
Glue gun
Glue sticks 
Paint (assorted colors) optional 
2 tacks and/or nails 

Step one:
Take your twine and tie two loops on each end

Step two:
Grab your wooden basketballs, hot glue one of the looped twine to the back of the Wooden basketball, repeat this step for your second basketball. Lay upside down to allow the hot glue to dry. 

Step three:
If you'd like to add a bit more color and fun to this project you can choose coordinating colors and paint your clothespin. 

Step Four:
Once your clothes pins are dry, if  you decided to purchase embellishments, grab your hot glue gun and decide where on the clothes pin you'd like to attach each embellishment. Allow them to dry and cool. 

Step Five:
Attach the clothes pins to your twine


Now your project is complete. Find your perfect spot to hang it and enjoy your child's art! 

*TFAMM*