Crafts from wooden sticks for children: use the magic of creativity

Handmade is a way to express your creative nature, enjoy the process of creation and feel satisfaction from the result. There are many crafting materials in the craft world, but ice cream sticks offer unrivaled versatility and the ability to bring the most interesting ideas to life. Crafts from wooden sticks will be a source of inspiration, entertainment and joy for children. Check out joy-pup.com for craft ideas that kids can do.

Airplane

Materials:

• 3 wooden sticks 15 cm long
• 5 wooden sticks 10 cm long
• 2 strips of cardboard (4.5 cm x 0.8 cm)
• 1 small black bead
• glue
• scissors
• colorful stickers for decoration

Manufacturing technique:

1. First, glue 5 small sticks together and let them dry.
2. While the sticks are drying, trim the edges of the cardboard, making them slightly round. Paint blue or stick colored paper on top.
3. Glue both pieces of cardboard in the center crosswise to form a propeller.
4. Gently glue the black bead on top of the propeller and let dry.
5. Take 5 glued sticks and glue 2 large sticks on their wider sides at a distance of about 1-2 cm from the edge.
6. To make the back of the plane, take the third large stick, divide it into 2 equal parts, the edges, if possible, should be rounded. Then glue the pieces to 5 glued sticks about 1-2 cm from the other edge.
7. Glue the propeller.
8. Decorate the plane with colorful stickers.

Basket

Materials:

• 7 wooden sticks
• empty cardboard roll tube
• cardboard
• decorative adhesive tape
• chenille wire
• glue
• scissors
• sticky rhinestones

Execution technique

1. Cut an empty cardboard tube in half.
2. Trace and cut out a circle from cardboard and glue it to one end of the tube to form the base of the basket.
3. Cut seven wooden sticks in half, you can paint them any color you like.
4. Glue the halves of the sticks on the cardboard tube with the rounded part up.
5. Decorate the baskets with decorative sticky tape.
6. Cut 10-12 cm of chenille wire and glue the ends inward to make a basket handle.
7. Glue the flower-shaped rhinestones to the basket.

Penguin

Materials:

• 8 wooden sticks
• corrugated cardboard
• moving eyes
• orange paper
• black and white paint
• brush
• glue
• scissors

Manufacturing technique

1. Lay seven sticks in a row and glue the eighth stick diagonally to secure them together. Let the parts dry.
2. Paint the sticks black.
3. Cut out the body and wings of the penguin from corrugated cardboard.
4. Paint the body white and the wings black. Let them dry.
5. Once dry, glue the body and wings onto wooden sticks.
6. Glue movable eyes on top.
7. Cut out the beak and legs from orange cardboard. Glue them on the penguin.