This Valentines Day, boys are in the majority for us. We have 5 Grandsons; but only one little grand-daughter … all of whom I like to mail Valentines to. On top of that, we are having a Valentine party on Friday which will include 7 boys (My little Grandson Winston included), and no girls (not counting the Mama's and Grandma's of course). All this has had me on the hunt for Valentine ideas for boys. I was inspired by several pins on Pinterest that I found, and played a little with clothespins and wooden ice-cream sticks to make these Clothespin Airplane party favors. They came out pretty cute, so, of course I wanted to share them with you. Materials: Wooden Clothespins Mini popsicle sticks for the tail wing and rudder (you will cut both ends off some of your mini popsicle sticks, for a tail rudder for each plane) Medium/small ice cream sticks or medium sized popsicle sticks (I used the ice cream sticks) for the wings Hot glue gun and glue sticks Magnets Spray paint and/or craft paint Steps: Drop a dab of hot glue on the top of a clothes pin. 2. Place an ice-cream stick on top of the glue to create a top wing; press together firmly. 3. Place another dab of glue on the bottom side of the clothespin under and parallel to the first. 4. Place a dab of glue on the tail and glue a mini popsicle stick for the tail. 5. Cut the ends of some of the mini popsicle sticks for tail rudders. Steve cut these for me with a hacksaw. He put 5 together at a time, and put them in a vice and sawed them off (another alternative: use pliers to hold them and then saw them one at a time). 6. Put a dab of hot glue on the bottom of the tail rudder piece. 7. Glue the rudder to the tail. Nows its time for the paint... but I will say that, these are so cute even without the paint, that you could leave them natural, and they would be awesome. 8. Create a protected environment to spray paint…. 9. Place a stick in the mouth of the clothespin to give yourself a handle while painting. 10. Spray paint both sides of the plane (or paint with acrylic craft paint and a brush, and let the kids paint them.) Decorate with an alternate paint color if you desire; Steve did all the painting for me; I think he had a great time doing it; there is a kid in all of us don't you think. He also loved thinking about each of his Grandkids while he painted them. Glue a magnet to the bottom. These can be used to make party favors as is, or added to a Magnetic Greeting Card, for a cute decoration on the card. Click here for the instructions. Have fun!