You can make christmas crafts and even memories with the kids with this Popsicle Stick Snowflake Ornament. This is a very fun Christmas craft that is perfectly suited for kids.
Try out different ways of turning plain craft tick into colourful and eye catching sparkly snowflake craft for kids.
If you are wondering how to make and decorate your snowflake ornament, there are numerous options to choose from.
Even better, kids as little as 3 can help make them some with supervison of course (steer clear of glue guns in this cake and use pva glue instead)
You may decorate your snowflake ornaments with colourful buttons, craft gem stones, bit of different coloured paper, sequins, colourful paper straws, glass beads and shown below even beans.
You can hang your popsicle stick snowflakes on the christmas tree alongside these Printable Christmas Tree Ornaments. Simply download the free template, cut, decorate and hang on the tree with minimal mess.
What you need to make Popsicle stick snowflake
- Popsicle sticks or craft sticks. You can use already coloured popsicle sticks but if you want the added activity of colouring, a part of the decorating princess that will suit the little kids, you can opt for the plain popsicle stick.
- Â PVA Glue, Glue stick, Â Glue dots, Glue gun. Pva glue is will work for every material you to adhere to the popsicle stick and is easiest for kids to work with but can be messy. Not to worry, its all part of the fun as kids love mess. Glue stick will work with paper but not so great if you want to glue grain. Glue gun works with all materials but is advisable to allow little kids to use them.
- Gem or craft stones. Since we want our DIY snowflake ornament to be sparkly  craft stones will do the trick. These might not need to be glued as they are self adhesive. Make sure you use ones big enough to be handled by tiny hands.
- Dot Markers or Acrylic paint and Brush. This is to paint the popsicle stick if you using plain ones or you could just buy already coloured ones.
- Pipe cleaners, Buttons, Paper straws
- Scissors
How do you make a snowflake out of popsicle stick?
Easy. Just glue them on top of each other to form star like shape.
Well then, How many popsicle sticks make a snowflake?
3 popsicle sticks make a snowflake.
Lay one stick diagonally, glue the second stick in the opposite direction.
Then glue the third stick vertically right in the centre.
How to Make Popsicle Stick Snowflake Ornament.
If using plain popsicle sticks, colour with different christmas colours. Remember to do this part before putting together your snowflake ornamnent. Use a dot marker or acrylic paint to colour your craft sticks and let them dry.
Once dry assemble your snowflakes using the instruction above on how to make snowflake with popsicle stick.Now it is time to decorate.
Snowflake ornaments with pipe cleaners.
Grab one of the snowflakes assemble and wrap pipe cleaners around all six sides.
Snowflake Ornament with Paper Straws
Using a scissors, cut into tiny bits and glue on to the snowflake ornament. Glue stick or pva glue adheres the paper straw easily.
You may also decorate your popsicle stick ornaments with sparky adhesive stones. No glue needed.
Popsicle Stick Ornaments with Buttons
Use glue stick to decorate with different coloured buttons
Popsicle Stick Ornaments with Beans
And finally you can try grains corns and kind of beans. Uncooked of course. Pvc glue works a treat. Just let it dry thoroughly
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