From such a throwback material, like ice cream sticks, you can create incredible crafts. For children this creative process will be especially fascinating and useful, because its implementation contributes to the development of fine motor skills, mindfulness and perseverance. With the help of handy material, glue and wooden sticks, you can make not only toys, but also useful items for home.
- tags for plants
- Bracelet
- Doors
- House
- Bookmark
- Toy furniture
- Bed
- Easel
- Partha
- Bench
- coach
- Ship
- bird feeders
- Magnets
- Christmas decorations
- Training material
- Weapons
- Crossbow
- Catapult
- Gun
- Slingshot
- Puzzles
- Home theater characters
- Decor objects
- Vase
- Decorative pendants
- Jewelry holder
- Flower pots
- Well
- Stand for hot
- Shelves
- Frames
- Fixture
- Plates
- Box
- Airplane
- Sledge
- Handbags
Plant tags
Ice cream sticks can be used as tags for plants. It is convenient to mark such tags with seedlings in pots, a greenhouse or a box, but it is also possible in the open ground. The inscription on the stick can be applied in any convenient way, if necessary it can be covered with a protective layer.
Bracelet
Bracelet made of ice cream sticks can become an original decoration. To create it, the sticks must be soaked in water for 1-2 days or boil. Then gently insert the sticks into a glass or mug so that they take the shape of a circle. After complete drying, they must be pulled out with tweezers. Finished bracelets can be painted with colors, sequins, decorated with rhinestones, cloth or decoupage.
Doors
You can create miniature fabulous doors from ice cream sticks. Required elements of the magic door are: irregular, asymmetric shape, metal door handle, mandatory crossbeams, the presence of an eyelet or window, imitated forged loops and keyhole with a key.
House
A house for a doll is a dream of every girl that can be easily done by oneself. Gluing together the chopsticks from the ice cream, you need to make 6-7 blanks, corresponding to the size of the proposed house and using crossbeams to bind them together. From the blanks to assemble the house of the desired shape. From the sticks, you can also make a fence, stairs, furniture and more.
Bookmark
If you simply decorate a stick from ice cream, then you can easily get a simple bookmark for the book.
In a more complex version, two sticks of different lengths should be glued together from one side and the attachment place covered with a decorative element, for example, a gypsum heart.
Toy furniture
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Toy furniture, made by own hands, will please the kids not only with the result, but with the manufacturing process. Only two dozen ice cream sticks can be used to make a bed for pups without much effort. This craft does not take much time and easily fits into the doll interior.
Easel
You can make mini easel for photos from ice cream sticks. To make it you need 9 sticks of the same size, one even wand and toothpick. Each leg of the easel consists of three glued sticks, they are fastened together with a toothpick, the stick plays a role of the support across the attached stick.
Partition
It will take a lot of effort to make it, and besides the rods and glue you will need cardboard for flexibility and stability. If you add a bouquet and congratulations to the finished hand-made article, you will get an excellent souvenir for a first-grader.
Bench
For the production of a mini-shop, the cardboard blanks should be taken as a basis, fasten them together and glue them with wooden sticks. Then the shop can be painted and varnished.
Coach
It is not an easy task to make a carriage out of ice cream sticks. Although, in fact, you can build a simple house with a flat roof and attach wheels to it, you get something like this.
To create a more elegant version, you'll have to work hard thinking through the design and small details.
Ship
You can build wooden boat from ice cream sticks. Such an article will definitely not leave any child indifferent. To create it, you also need matches, toothpicks, skewers for shish kebab. And for an old sail handkerchief. If desired, the boat can be checked for buoyancy.
Bird feeder
One of the easiest options for making a bird feeder is an option using ice cream sticks. For the bottom you need to take 10-12 sticks and fasten them together, gluing two sticks along the edges of the structure. For the walls you need to lay out the sticks in the form of a square in several rows. It only remains to fix the rope and hang it on a tree.
Magnets
If you attach a magnet to the photo frame made of ice cream sticks, you get an interesting magnet on the refrigerator. Such an article can be presented as a gift to grandparents if you put a photo of the child in it.
Christmas Decorations
Winter pre-Christmas evenings can take a child by making Christmas decorations. In skillful hands, ice cream sticks can turn into funny little men and snowmen, cute angels, a snowflake, a Christmas tree, an asterisk or a Christmas candy. Fantasy on the theme of the New Year can endlessly.
Training material
Wooden sticks can be colored and used to study the account. Also glued together ice cream sticks will help you learn and memorize geometric shapes. Painted in different colors, the sticks can be proposed to be laid out according to the specified schemes, observing the arrangement and the color order. Such games contribute to the development of thinking.
Weapon
to the table of contents ^Crossbow
From two sticks of ice cream, gum, binder and paper tube, you can build an original acting mini crossbow that can shoot the rods for handles. Just need to glue the sticks in the shape of the letter "T", bind the binder with super glue, it will play the role of a trigger mechanism, to stretch and stretch the elastic band. A paper tube is needed to fix the "arrow".
Catapult
Catapult of ice cream sticks will be an interesting entertainment for children. You can shoot from such weapons with soft paper balls. For the base it is enough to take 7 sticks, and for the trigger mechanism, 2 sticks and a metal lid from the bottle or a plastic spoon are sufficient. All elements are fastened together by stationery elastic bands, and the lid is attached to a double-sided adhesive tape.
Pistol
A miniature pocket gun is easy to make using chopsticks from ice cream. As with real weapons, he has a movable trigger, and instead of bullets - stationery gum. Such an article will not leave indifferent any boys.
Slingshot
Similar powerful and compact weapons can also be built from wooden sticks. In this hand-craft the main thing is to fix all details with glue, and then with electrical tape. Shoot from such a slingshot can be clerical clips, but in no case can not aim and shoot at people. It may be dangerous.
Puzzles
For the youngest you can make puzzles from wooden sticks. The easiest way to draw a few sticks, laid out in a row, geometric shapes, and then mix them.
By the same principle, you can make puzzles using stickers or more complex drawings.
The characters of the home theater
The home puppet theater will amuse the kids of different ages. Characters on sticks make it easy enough, so the process of manufacturing just need to attract children. Heroes of your favorite fairy tales can be drawn on sticks, or created with the help of an applique.
Decor items
to the table of contents ^Vase
Wooden sticks from ice cream will help you make an original decor element from an ordinary glass vase. Sticks should be soaked in boiling water or left for a day in cold water. Then, with tweezers, lower the wet sticks into the vase so that they take its shape. In this case, stack them better with a slight shift.
Decorative pendants
This suspension is made quite simply. It is necessary to glue together the sticks in the desired shape, paint them and apply a pattern in the technique of decoupage.
Jewelry holder
To make your earrings always visible and not lost, make them a convenient holder.
Flower pot
After decorating ordinary plastic pots with wooden sticks from ice cream, you can get original flower pots for indoor flowers. To decorate them, you can use colors, appliques, beads, ropes or ordinary wire.
Well
A decorative well can become an element of a more complex composition. For its foundation, you need to choose a jar or a box of suitable size, for finishing - sticks from ice cream. In fact, the manufacture of this craft has many variations and depends on the imagination and hard work of the master.
Stand for hot
Convenient and useful thing - a stand for hot, which can be done using ice cream sticks and wooden beads of two sizes. In all the sticks, you need to make 3 holes and assemble the stand with a thread, alternating beads with chopsticks.
Shelves
Ice cream sticks are a material from which you can build a full shelf on the wall. Such a shelf in the form of bee honeycombs, made by own hands, will become an original element of the interior and will look very cute and stylish.
Framework
With the help of wooden sticks, even a child can make a stylish photo frame by himself. First you need to paint the sticks in the desired color. Then fold them in the shape of a square and glue together. Sequins, appliqués and stickers are the right decor for this product.
Fixture
A good option for using wooden sticks is the manufacture of a luminaire. It is enough to make four identical rectangular blanks from thin reelets and ice cream sticks, which will need to be connected together. Putting inside the workpiece an ordinary light bulb, you will get a magnificent lamp.
Plates
You can make a plate for fruit or sweets from ice cream sticks. To do this, put the sticks in the shape of a hexagon and glue together. Having determined the height of the plate, make the necessary number of such layers.
Casket
Older girls will have to taste a casket of wooden sticks. You can make it yourself and store in it ornaments and other valuable little things. A casket with a removable lid can be decorated with flowers made in the quilling technique or decoupage.
aircraft Very interesting occupation for the child will be the manufacture of aircraft. A few uncomplicated actions, glue and wooden sticks will be needed to create such crafts. The joy of the baby will have no boundaries, if you make a whole flotilla of multi-colored aircraft.
Sledge
Sledge made of ice cream sticks is a cute hand-made article in the New Year's theme, which can be used as a Christmas tree toy and as a souvenir. All rounded parts of sleds should be made from pre-soaked wands. For decoration bright colors and glitter are suitable.
handbags The exclusive wooden handbag of ice cream sticks will not leave its owner without attention. Having a fantasy, you can build an accessory of any shape and size, and use the pens to borrow from the old bag. The main thing is not to get with such a bag under the rain.
