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Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

Summer is here in a blink of an eye, the season when you can eat ice cream openly. We can use the leftover ice cream sticks to make various small crafts. If you don’t want your children to eat too many cold drinks, you can also buy ice cream stick ingredients online, which are cheap and plentiful.

Sharing an interesting handmade tutorial, using ice cream sticks to make a swing chair, it is colorful and beautiful. Are the children a little cautious? Prepare enough ice cream sticks and follow the steps below to give it a try!~

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

Materials and tools: ice cream sticks, small wooden sticks, twine, clothespins, scissors, cardboard, hot glue gun.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

1. If you have colored ice cream sticks, you can skip the coloring step. Take 9 pieces and punch holes at both ends.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

2. Take 3 ice cream sticks and connect them end to end to form a triangle. This is one side of the hanging chair. Do the other side the same way.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

3. Use 3 small wooden sticks to connect the two sides together, apply glue and fix it with clothespins for a while.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

4. Take another 8 ice cream sticks and cut both ends flat. Then paste it on the cardboard together with the two hole-punched ice cream sticks as shown.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

5. Use hemp rope to hang the finished chair surface on the wooden stick.

Illustrated tutorial on how to make a swing chair with ice cream sticks

6. A cute swing chair is ready~