4 Easy DIY Pin Ideas

Hi there! I wanted to share how you can make pins in four creative ways with wood shapes, safety pins, ribbon, and felt.

All of these pins are easy to make and you customize them however you would like. For instance the wood pins can have different paintings on them and the pins made with safety pins can have charms on them.

Now to start, I'll be showing you how to make the wood pins.

Wood Pins

To make wood pins, you're going to need flat wood shapes, pinbacks, a paintbrush, felt or fabric, and hot glue or a different type of glue. You'll also need acrylic paint or a picture you would like to put on it.

How To Design Your Pins

You want to start out by painting a wood circle or a different shape and once the paint is dry you can paint any design that you want.

Then when the paint is dry you can cover it up with Mod Podge or you can leave how it is.

If you don't want to paint a image, you can glue on a image that's the same size as the wood shape with Mod Podge and after you place it down you can cover it with Mod Podge or leave it how it is. I used a piece of scrapbook paper for mine.

How To Put A Pinback On The Back

1. Once everything is dry you can put hot glue or a different type of glue on the back of the wood and place the pinback in the glue.

2. After you get the pinback on the glue, you can place a piece of felt or a piece of fabric over the glue and the part of the pin that's attached to the wood.

That's how you make wood pins! I love how easy it was to make them and how they can with customized with paint or pictures.

Friendship Pins Made With Safety Pins

For friendship pins, you're going to need safety pins and beads. If you would to put charms onto the pins, you're also going to need charms and pliers.

How To Make One

You want to start out by taking some beads and placing them on your safety pin and then you can close it when you're done putting the beads on it.

How To Add Charms

If you would like to add charms, you want to open up a jump ring that's on the charm with pliers.

Then you can place the jump ring on the hole of the safety pin and close it with pliers.

That's how easy it is to make friendship pins!

I love how cute these pins turned out. I like the idea of putting charms on them because it can give the pins a cute look for the holidays or for anything.

Rose Pins

What you're going to need for rose pins is felt, pin or a pencil, scissors, pinbacks, and hot glue or a different type of glue.

How To Make The Rose

1. To create a rose pin, you want to draw a wavy spiral on a piece of felt and when you reached the middle you want to draw a circle that's big enough to hold all of the felt after it's been rolled together.

2. Then you want to cut along the outer wavy line first.

3. Once you're done, you want to cut along the inner part of the spiral without the wavy line first.

4. Then you want to go back and cut along the wavy line.

5. Now you want to start rolling the outer part of the spiral and you want to keep going until you have reached the middle to created the rose.

6. To keep what you just rolled together, you want to put hot glue on the flattest part of the rose and then you want to place the circle part of the spiral on the glue

How To Add Leaves & Glue On A Pinback

1. You want to create the leaves out of felt and then you want to glue one or more leaves on the bottom

2. Then you want to put hot glue or a different type of glue on the leaves and then you can place a pinback on it.

3. When you're done with the leaves, you can put a piece of felt over the glue and the part of the pin that's attached to the leaves.

That's how you make you're own rose pin!

I like how these rose pins turned out. If I decide to make more of these, I'll would like to try making holiday themed ones or different colored ones.

Bow Pins

All you're going to need to make bow pins is ribbon, scissors, felt or fabric, pinbacks, and hot glue or a different type of glue.

How To Make One

1. The first step you want to do is that you want to tie a bow out of a piece of ribbon.

2. Then you want to glue a pinback on the back of the bow with hot glue or a different type of glue.

3. Once you placed the pinback on the bow, you can cover the glue and the part of the pin that's attached to the ribbon with a piece of felt, fabric or you can ribbon.

That's how you make bow pin!

I love how cute and easy these pins are! They would probably look even cuter with buttons or charms.

Here's A Video Tutorial For All Of The Pins

That's how you make all of these pins! If you would like any more help with any of these pins, you can watch the video below.

Final Thoughts

I do like all of these pins but my favorites out of all of them has to be the friendship pins and the wood pins. I thought they were the easiest to make and I love how customizable they are.

Which one of these pins is your favorite?