What are the methods for making popsicle sticks by hand?

The so-called popsicle is actually the ice cream that everyone is familiar with. Every summer is the peak sales season for ice cream. Now there are many types of ice cream. People have added many innovative methods to make ice cream. It looks very appetizing and tastes distinctly sweet. Eating some ice cream in summer can help relieve heat and quench thirst. In addition, after eating popsicles, don’t throw away the popsicle sticks. You can collect them and make some handicrafts. Here’s how to make them.

How to make ice cream sticks:

Girls like to buy a lot of accessories to dress themselves up, such as earrings. If you buy too many earrings, they will get tangled together when you put them together, which is very inconvenient to use and is not good for the earrings over time. Today I will teach you how to make your own earring stand using popsicle sticks. Let’s take a look.

Production difficulty: ★

Production time: 30 minutes

Materials:

Popsicle sticks, hot glue gun, red acrylic, white acrylic, brush

Production steps:

1. Prepare 11 popsicle sticks.

2. First take out a popsicle stick and apply a small amount of hot melt glue on both ends of the popsicle stick.

3. Then take two popsicle sticks and place them on the hot melt glue.

(Key point 1: When fixing the popsicle stick, you need to support it with your hands for a while to make it easier to fix.)

4. The vertices of the two hot melt adhesive strips should be fixed together with hot melt adhesive.

5. Stick three popsicle sticks together to form a triangular frame.

6. Then use the same method to make another triangular frame.

7. After making the two triangular frames, stand the two triangles up and straighten them.

8. Use hot melt glue to apply a small amount of hot melt glue on the two sides of the triangle, and use a popsicle stick to stick them horizontally.

9. Stick a popsicle stick about every 1 cm, and stick 5 popsicle sticks horizontally.

(Key point 2: Don’t stick the popsicle sticks too densely, just distribute them evenly.)

10. After the earring stand is completed, use a brush to dip some red and white acrylic and apply it evenly on the popsicle stick.

(Point 3: Choose the color of acrylic according to your preference.)

11. After the earring stand is painted, wait for it to dry.

12. After it dries, hang the hook earrings on it.