The weather is getting warmer, and you know what that means—the kids are already thinking about ice cream!
If theres no way to avoid this, you can save up your popsicle sticks and use them to spend fun craft time with your kids.
Ice cream sticks are a good material for handicrafts and can be used to make a variety of interesting handicrafts. Share 15 super fun ice cream stick DIYs that are guaranteed to keep your kids entertained.
Most of these ideas can be done with your children. Some of them can be used to decorate your home, while others are just fun. Anyway, I hope everyone will like it!~
1. Cute alphabet potted plant
Materials: Ice cream sticks, flower pots, dried black beans, green watercolor paint/food coloring, flower stickers, markers.
This is inspired by spring, allowing children to learn about the alphabet while doing crafts!
2. Ball track toys
Materials: shoe box, ice cream stick, marbles, hot melt glue gun, utility knife, scissors.
Adhere the ice cream sticks vertically to a shoe box or lid to make a maze, then dig out holes for marbles to roll inside.
3. Simple ice cream stick bird feeder
Materials: Ice cream sticks, acrylic paints, paint brushes, hot melt glue gun, and rope.
First color the ice cream sticks with paint and let them dry. Then glue a square bowl and tie it with a rope to hang it.
4. Letter pattern brand
Materials: Ice cream sticks, masking tape, white glue, rope, acrylic paint, and brushes.
First use white glue to make a rectangular sign. Then use masking tape to attach the letters and paint the front of the sign with paint. Once the paint is dry, remove the tape.
5. Colorful garland
Materials: Ice cream sticks, acrylic paint, paint brushes, paper plates, hot glue gun, scissors.
Color the ice cream sticks first, it’s best to color them as you like. Then cut off the middle part of the paper plate and stick the ice cream sticks to the back of the paper plate in a radiating shape.
6. Cute bookmarks
Materials: Ice cream sticks, wooden beads, rope, clay, acrylic paint, paint brush, heart-shaped mold, super glue, scissors.
First make a heart shape out of clay and make a small hole at the bottom. Tie the rope and wooden beads, and then tie the other end of the rope to the hole of the heart. Finally, glue the hand-painted and cut ice cream sticks and hearts.
7. Magical Fairy Door
Materials: Ice cream sticks, acrylic paint, brushes, hot melt glue gun, plastic toy handles, scissors.
First paint the ice cream sticks and let them dry. Then hot glue them to form a door and glue the door handle to one side.
8. Mini Farm
Materials: Ice cream stick, hot melt glue gun, acrylic paint, brush, Velcro, scissors.
First paint the ice cream sticks and let them dry. Then use them to glue the fence together, adding velcro on both sides of each fence. Finally, you can use velcro to combine any combination to get out of the farm.
9. Simple vase
Materials: Small milk powder can/can bottle, ice cream stick, acrylic paint, brush, twine, super glue.
The length of the ice cream stick should be greater than the height of the jar, paint the color and let it dry. Glue the ice cream stick along the side of the milk powder can, and finally tie it with twine.
10. Popsicle Stick Box
Materials: ice cream sticks, paints, brushes, cotton swabs, white glue.
Make the box and lid separately by pasting, and the colors can be combined in any way.
11. Wax Paper Lantern
Materials: wax paper, ice cream sticks, crayons, utility knife, hot melt glue gun, LED light.
First cut out scraps from the crayons and place them on wax paper for dyeing. Then attach the wax paper to the frame made of popsicle sticks. Finally glue the frame and put in the LED lights.
12. Ice Cream Stick Hut
Materials: ice cream sticks, wood glue, toothpicks, wooden beads, cardboard, scissors.
Use ice cream sticks to stick on all sides of the house, and use wooden beads, toothpicks and cardboard to make plants.
13. Ice-cream stick airplane
Materials: clothespins, ice cream sticks, wooden beads, colored pens, white glue.
First paint the ice cream sticks and clothespins, then make the fuselage and propellers by pasting them, and then glue them together.
14. Avengers Bookmark
Materials: Ice cream stick, paint pen (or white acrylic paint and fine tip paintbrush), black marker, black ballpoint pen, Mod Podge glue, paint brush.
First draw a rough sketch with a pencil, then apply the base color, and then add details such as the face.
15. Ice cream stick photo frame
15 simple and interesting ice cream stick DIY DIYs, basically all provide step-by-step tutorials, choose the one you like and try it!
