From such waste material You can create incredible crafts like popsicle sticks. This one is for children creative process will be especially exciting and useful, because its implementation contributes to the development fine motor skills, attentiveness and perseverance. Using scrap materials, glue and wooden sticks, you can make not only toys, but also useful items for the home.
Plant tags
Popsicle sticks can be used as plant tags. These tags are convenient for marking seedlings in pots, a greenhouse or a box, but they can also be used in open ground. The inscription on the stick can be applied to any in a convenient way, if necessary, it can be coated with a protective layer.
Bracelet
A bracelet made from popsicle sticks can become original decoration. To create it, sticks need to be soaked in water for 1-2 days or boiled. Then carefully insert the sticks into the glass or mug until they take the shape of a circle. After complete drying, they must be pulled out with tweezers. Ready-made bracelets can be decorated with paints, sparkles, rhinestones, fabric, or decoupage.
Doors
You can create miniature fairy doors using popsicle sticks. The required elements of a magic door are: irregular, asymmetrical shape, metal door handle, mandatory crossbars, the presence of a peephole or window, simulated forged hinges and a keyhole with a key.
House
A doll house is the dream of every girl, which you can easily make with your own hands. By gluing together ice cream sticks, you need to make 6-7 blanks corresponding to the size of the intended house and use cross bars to fasten them together. Assemble a house of the desired shape from the blanks. You can also make a fence, stairs, furniture and more from sticks.
Bookmark
If you simply decorate a popsicle stick, you can easily get a simple bookmark.
In a more complex version, two sticks different lengths it is necessary to glue them together at one edge and cover the attachment point with a decorative element, for example, a plaster heart.
Toy furniture
Bed
Do-it-yourself toy furniture will delight kids not only with the result, but also with the manufacturing process. With just two dozen popsicle sticks you can easily make a baby doll bed. This craft will not take much time and will easily fit into a doll’s interior.
Easel
Popsicle sticks can be used to make a mini easel for photographs. To make it you need 9 sticks of the same size, one even stick and a toothpick. Each easel leg consists of three glued sticks, they are fastened together with a toothpick; the role of a stand is played by a stick attached across.
Desk
Making it will require a lot of effort, and in addition to sticks and glue, you will need cardboard for flexibility and stability. If added to finished craft a bouquet and congratulations will make a great souvenir for a first grader.
Bench
To make a mini-bench, you should take cardboard blanks as a basis, fasten them together and cover them with wooden sticks. Then the bench can be painted and varnished.
Coach
Making a carriage out of popsicle sticks is not an easy task. Although, in essence, you can build a simple house with a flat roof and attach wheels to it, you will get something similar to this.
To create a more elegant option, you will have to work hard, thinking through the design and small details.
Ship
You can build a wooden boat from ice cream sticks. This craft will definitely not leave any child indifferent. To create it you will also need matches, toothpicks, and kebab skewers. An old handkerchief will do for the sail. If desired, the boat can be checked for buoyancy.
Bird feeder
One of the most simple options making a bird feeder is an option using popsicle sticks. For the bottom you need to take 10-12 sticks and fasten them together, gluing two sticks to the edges of the structure. For the walls, you need to lay out the sticks in the shape of a square in several rows. All that remains is to secure the rope and hang it on the tree.
Magnets
If you glue a magnet to a photo frame made from popsicle sticks, you will get an interesting refrigerator magnet. This craft can be presented as a gift to grandparents if you place a photo of the child in it.
New Year decorations
On winter New Year's Eve evenings, you can keep your child busy making Christmas tree decorations. In skillful hands, ice cream sticks can turn into funny people and snowmen, cute angels, a snowflake, a Christmas tree, a star or a Christmas candy. You can fantasize about the New Year theme endlessly.
Educational material
Wooden sticks can be painted and used to teach counting. Also, ice cream sticks glued together will help you learn and remember geometric shapes. Decorated in different colors You can offer to lay out the sticks according to the given patterns, observing the location and color order. Such games contribute to the development of thinking.
Weapon
Crossbow
Using two popsicle sticks, a rubber band, a binder and a paper straw, you can build an original working mini crossbow that can shoot pen refills. You just need to glue the sticks together in the shape of the letter “T”, secure the binder with superglue, it will act as a trigger, thread and tighten the elastic band. Paper tube needed to fix the “arrow”.
Catapult
A popsicle stick catapult is a fun activity for kids. You can shoot soft paper balls from such a weapon. For the base, it is enough to take 7 sticks, and for the trigger, 2 sticks and a metal bottle cap or plastic spoon. All elements are fastened together with rubber bands, and the lid is attached with double-sided tape.
Gun
A miniature pocket pistol can be easily made using Popsicle sticks. Like a real weapon, it has a movable trigger, and instead of bullets there are rubber bands. This craft will not leave any boy indifferent.
Slingshot
Such powerful and compact weapons can also be made from wooden sticks. In this craft, the main thing is to secure all the parts well with glue and then with electrical tape. You can shoot from such a slingshot with paper clips, but under no circumstances should you aim and shoot at people. It may be dangerous.
Puzzles
For little ones, you can make puzzles from wooden sticks. The easiest way is to draw geometric shapes on several sticks laid out in a row, and then mix them.
Using the same principle, you can make puzzles using stickers or more complex designs.
Home theater characters
Home puppet theater will amuse the kids of different ages. Characters on sticks are quite easy to make, so you just need to involve children in the manufacturing process. Heroes of your favorite fairy tales can be drawn on sticks, or created using applique.
Decor items
Vase
Wooden ice cream sticks will help you make an original decorative element from an ordinary glass vase. The sticks need to be soaked in boiling water or left for a day in cold water. Then use tweezers to lower the soaked sticks into the vase so that they take its shape. At the same time, it is better to lay them with a slight shift.
Decorative pendants
This type of pendant is quite simple to make. It is necessary to glue the sticks together into the desired shape, paint them and apply a pattern using the decoupage technique.
Jewelry holder
To keep your earrings in sight and not get lost, make a convenient holder for them.
Flower pots
By decorating ordinary plastic pots with wooden ice cream sticks, you can get original flowerpots for indoor flowers. To decorate them, you can use paints, appliques, beads, ropes or ordinary wire.
Well
A decorative well can become an element of a more complex composition. For its base you need to choose a jar or box suitable size, for finishing - ice cream sticks. In fact, the production of this craft has many variations and depends on the imagination and hard work of the master.
Hot stand
Comfortable and useful thing- a hot stand, which can be made using ice cream sticks and wooden beads two sizes. You need to make 3 holes in all sticks and assemble the stand using thread, alternating beads with sticks.
Shelves
Ice cream sticks are a material from which you can build a full-fledged shelf on the wall. A similar shelf in the shape of a honeycomb, made with your own hands, will become original element interior and will look very cute and stylish.
Framework
With the help of wooden sticks, even a child can make a stylish photo frame on his own. First you need to color the sticks desired color. Then fold them into a square shape and glue them together. Sequins, appliques and stickers are the right decor for this product.
Lamp
A good option for using wooden sticks is to make a lamp. It is enough to make four identical rectangular blanks from thin slats and ice cream sticks, which will need to be connected to each other. By placing an ordinary light bulb inside the blank, you get a magnificent lamp.
Plates
You can use popsicle sticks to make a fruit or candy plate. To do this, you need to lay out the sticks in the shape of a hexagon and glue them together. Having determined the height of the plate, make required quantity such layers.
Casket
Older girls will love a box made of wooden sticks. You can make it yourself and store jewelry and other valuables in it. A box with a removable lid can be decorated with flowers made using the quilling technique or decoupaged.
Airplane
Making an airplane will be a very interesting activity for a child. A few simple steps, glue and wooden sticks will be needed to create such crafts. A child's joy will know no bounds if he makes a whole flotilla of colorful airplanes.
Sled
Popsicle stick sleigh - cute craft in New Year theme, which can be used as Christmas tree toy and as a souvenir. All rounded parts of the sled must be made from pre-soaked sticks. Suitable for decoration bright colors and sparkles.
Handbags
An exclusive wooden handbag made of ice cream sticks will definitely not leave its owner unnoticed. Having imagination, you can build an accessory of any shape and size, and borrow the handles from old bag. The main thing is not to get caught in the rain with such a handbag.
It is difficult to meet a person in our world who does not like ice cream. Children especially love this cool delicacy. Usually, after eating this delicious treat, we throw away the ice cream stick. But I think few people imagine how funny and interesting crafts can be made using popsicle sticks.
Today I would like to present to your attention a master class on creating a pot-cart from popsicle sticks.
To work you will need:
- 20 popsicle sticks,
- 1-2 thin skewers or toothpicks,
- 3 wooden kebab sticks,
- 2 pieces of three-core cable, approximately 10 cm each,
- file knife with a sharp tip,
- hot glue gun.
Step 1: Assembling the cart.
Using a saw blade, cut into bars from thick kebab sticks, approximately as in the photo.
First we assemble the frame from the blocks...
The length is equal to the length of the ice cream stick, and the width is as you wish.
We saw off the sticks to fit the width of the cart: 3 for the front side and 4 for the rear.
4 whole sticks on the sides and 5 sticks on the bottom of the cart. We fix everything with hot glue.
Step 2: Wheels.
We need to pull out the middle wire from the pieces of three-core cable.
Coat the remaining wire tails with hot glue and connect the cable into a ring.
And second...
We need to cut the skewer or toothpicks to such a length that there is a hole in the middle of our wheel, the diameter of a thick kebab stick.
Using a sharp knife or awl, in place of the elongated middle wire, we make symmetrical holes into which we insert the “spokes” of our wheel.
Like this…
And we fix it with hot glue, on a block prepared in advance, first one wheel...
And then the second...
You can, of course, leave it like that, securing the wheels with hot glue... The cart turns out to be quite neat.
You can simply paint it with acrylic paint. Naturally, we paint first and then attach the wheels.
I really wanted to give the cart an unusual texture using single-phase craquelure varnish.
Craquelure- This artificial creation“antique” effect - the effect of a cracked surface over the years.
Beautiful craquelure can be created using contrasting acrylic paints: light and dark, pale and rich.
The cracking of the surface depends on how you applied the second coat of paint. When using a brush, the cracks will be directed according to the movement of the brush. To obtain a mesh, paint is applied with a sponge or very small strokes.
At home, without specialized varnish, you can use PVA glue, furniture varnish, raw egg white, gelatin, vinegar or washing gel.
The craquelure technique is very specific and an untrained person may not be able to cope with it right away, so it is advisable to try your hand at a separate piece of wood.
Personally, as an experiment, I tried two methods: table vinegar and PVA glue. I wouldn’t say the effect was very pleasing, 2-3 points out of 5, compared to craquelure varnish. If you don’t want to spend 120-150 rubles on a 50 ml jar of varnish, then why not try it. Of course, it is better to experiment on a small surface and not on the finished work.
I’ll tell you how I did it...
Craquelure using PVA glue:
Cover the surface with contrasting paint bright color. We are waiting for the paint to dry completely. Then, sparingly, we apply PVA glue on it. We wait for the glue to set a little, and apply acrylic paint in a thick layer light color. Immediately start drying your hair with a hair dryer.
It turns out quite a lot of cracks. We will get a natural crack, but such cracks will be thin and barely noticeable.
Craquelure with 9% vinegar:
The rapid appearance of “wrinkles” can be achieved by applying 9% vinegar to the layer acrylic paint.
We paint the surface with acrylic paint and carefully apply 9% vinegar to the surface with a small sponge. The paint begins to spread like craquelure.
Moreover, the cracks can be very wide, this is convenient when you want the second layer of paint (contrasting) to be clearly visible.
To be honest, I didn’t really like the look of the cracks.
There are several more elements with which you can “age” the surface.
Craquelure using liquid washing gel.
Apply base color and let dry. Apply the gel with a brush. The thicker the gel, the better. Therefore, it is better to use concentrated. Apply heavily diluted paint on top with a brush or sponge.
Craquelure using egg white.
Apply one or two coats of latex acrylic paint and let it dry thoroughly. Then the egg white is applied with a brush in thick strokes, not paying attention to whether one stroke overlaps the other or not. We are waiting for the surface to dry completely (naturally). Apply paint of a different color, so that one stroke does not overlap the other.
Craquelure using gelatin: 1 tbsp. a spoonful of gelatin in a glass of cold water.
Apply gelatin, which is beginning to harden, onto the dried PVA with a brush. But not completely frozen yet, so that there are no lumps. Dry for 10-15 minutes depending on the thickness of the layer. If using a hairdryer, then 3-5 minutes. Apply paint to slightly dried gelatin. When it starts to dry out, it fades. If the gelatin is completely dry, there will be no cracks. You can apply gelatin again without washing off the previous one.
You can apply paint over gelatin in any direction. Then be sure to apply several layers of varnish.
After all the experiments, I gave my preference to a specialized craquelure varnish. 🙂
These are the carts I got...
White - in contrasting shades...
Brown – slightly played with color to give it depth.
Of course, you can decorate in different ways...
I was glad to help!
If you love sushi, then you are probably familiar with the situation when it’s a pity to throw away used utensils, but there’s nowhere to use them... They just sit there, just in case! Today we have put together a selection of several ideas for their use especially for you! Hurry up and see our creative article - crafts made from Chinese chopsticks!
Jewelry stand
If you have enough time, then pay attention to this uncomplicated and very simple idea!
In this example, we used Chinese sticks and a hot glue gun. You can easily use regular wood glue or instant.
How to quickly transform your interior and put your decorations in order
Don't know where to start? Then take our advice! To begin with, connect three sticks into a triangle, and then connect your soul and imagination! How do you like these crafts made from Chinese chopsticks?
Update the design of a mirror made of Chinese chopsticks
Chinese chopsticks can be used not only for practical purposes, but also for decorative purposes! With the help large quantities Chinese sticks, you can make a modern solar mirror with your own hands!
A short guide to decorating a mirror
The most problematic and painstaking work is to find the perfect symmetry. First, place long rays, and later work on small ones. By the way, you can lengthen a Chinese stick using two sticks using glue. After completing the work, paint the finished sun gold.
Original stand for dishes
The main thing is to remember that there must be a gap of 3-5 mm between the sticks.
Knitting needles and hooks
Have you decided to take up a new hobby? Then we advise you to save money on purchasing the necessary equipment! Making knitting needles and hooks is much easier than you think! First, sharpen the tip with a sharpener. And to give a softer tip, grind off the base with sandpaper. We use the same principle to make a hook!
Source: German interior and decor magazine "Deavita"
Author of the translation:
Chvanova Maria. Especially for the site
I made this basket for a dance teacher. My son is still too young to go to a regular school, but we have been going to dance school for 2 years. And his request was to do something that would be different from all other gifts, original. And then mom had no choice but to get involved in the work. The son said: “Giving fresh flowers is already banal.” Wow!!! Therefore, they began to invent a gift that was not trivial. I took out my entire supply of junk and began to think about what to make a basket out of and found it. I decided to give junk things a second life again. I would like to share my idea with you too. Maybe it will be useful for someone on the farm. And so let's begin... There are 25 roses in the basket, each rose contains a truffle candy and in the middle there is a can of coffee.
I took a yogurt box because I liked the size (25*20), but you can take any container you need.
Let's take it corrugated cardboard, from under previously purchased equipment or something else. Cut out the bottom and 4 sides of the desired height. The height of my basket is 12 cm.
We buy barbecue skewers in the store (wooden or bamboo (they are cheap)) and use wire cutters (I borrowed the tool from my husband) to cut the sticks to the required length. I needed a little more than a pack.
Make flagella out of napkins. It’s better to be thicker. Divide the napkin into 3 parts. Then the handle looks more interesting.
And then around, close to each other, we glue the prepared sticks with PVA glue. I forgot to take a photo, but I think it’s clear. When you finish all the gluing, we frame the sharp ends of the sticks from the top and bottom using napkin flagella. This will give the basket a neat and tidy appearance. Of course, safety, otherwise you can get scratched on the sharp tips. I glued 5 threads of napkins along the top edge, and 3 threads along the bottom edge.
It’s clearer here.
I used thick wire for the handle. I made the handle thick and therefore cut off 2 wires.
Inside the basket, along the contour, I glued rolls of toilet paper, for better bouquet formation. I really liked this idea in my last basket. The flowers stand and do not fall apart in different directions.
Wrap the handle with napkin strands, very tightly.
The handle was attached with silicone glue, but also strengthened with wire, because the basket turned out to be quite weighty.
As a result, we got this product. For beauty, I added gold paint (acrylic) to the yellow napkins and covered the entire basket with acrylic varnish. In my opinion it turned out not bad.....But of course you can judge.
And then I filled the basket with the contents that I had prepared. I put coffee in the center and lined the entire inside with green crepe paper. So that the paper wouldn’t fly off and the untreated middle wouldn’t be visible, I glued the ends to 2-sided tape. It holds up great.
And then she filled the basket with candy roses.
We received this sweet basket.
And then I decided to attach a butterfly to the handle, which I made a long time ago. I glued it with 2-sided tape.
But here we have a gift. The teacher gasped when her son gave her this gift. And I was very pleased with it.
Even closer.
Well, one more time.
Thanks to all the guests who came to visit me. You're always welcome. I would be grateful and grateful if you rate the work. See you again and MK! I wish everyone all the best.
