Lightweight and festive, these colorful coat pins make a treasured gift that will spread cheer year after year.

Materials

• Corrugated cardboard
• Holiday gift wrap or origami paper
• Tacky glue

• Miniature bows or ribbon
• Self-adhesive pinback

Instructions

1. For each coat pin, cut out 2 or 3 small squares or rectangles from the corrugated cardboard. Our cutouts ranged from 1 1/2-inch squares to 3- by 1 1/2-inch rectangles.

2. Cover the cutouts with gift wrap or origami paper, gluing the edges in place. Now arrange the packages in a stack and stick them together with dabs of tacky glue. Add a miniature bow or ribbon.

3. Once the glue is dry, stick a self-adhesive pinback to the bottom of the stack.

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