When summer approaches, it is possible that to fight against the heat you focus on eating ice cream from time to time. But what do you do with the sticks once you've enjoyed their flavor and freshness? It is possible that without thinking, you throw them away. Starting today, that will change. In addition to enjoying your ice creams, you will start to save the ice cream sticks, because the more you have ... the more things you can create!
Yes, it is possible to create many things with the ice cream sticks, but the best thing is that you can decorate your home with them. Creativity and imagination are what will really help you achieve good results in decorating your home and ice cream sticks, and that your home looks authentic. Do you lack ideas to achieve good results? Don't worry because below from Decoora We are going to give you some ideas that will make your decoration with ice cream sticks easier.
Tutorial for decorating with ice cream sticks
If you lack ideas to enjoy a practical decoration with ice cream sticks, we are going to show you this tutorial that will make everything easier for you. In the video, you will see 5 easy ideas to create decorative objects for your home, and best of all, they are very inexpensive. The video shows you how to make shelves, an organizer, some small boxes for your fruits and even original trivets.
As you can see, they are very original and practical ideas, and you can also do them easily, with affordable materials, without much effort and with great results. The best thing about the video is that you can look at the step by step and stop it whenever you need to to restart it at the right time to continue with your creations. We can see this video on Youtube thanks to the channel Crafts on.
What do you need?
To make any of the popsicle stick crafts in the video, you will need a number of materials (easy to get). You cannot miss these main materials:
- Ice cream sticks
- Glue gun
- Silicone for the gun
- Scissors
- Painting
Depending on what you want the final result of your creations with the ice cream sticks to be, you can choose one paint or another, or a material that is more comfortable to use. In this list we have put the materials that you will need for sure, then, depending on the tutorial you want to do, you may need added materials.
What does the tutorial teach you?
Popsicle stick shelf
In the tutorial you will see how with six sticks you can make a hexagon and you can glue them with the silicone gun. Once you have the hexagon done, You will only have to put the sticks on each side of the hexagon until you have the width of the shelf you want. It should be wide enough so that you can place your objects.
Ideally, paint it with acrylic paint, although normal or spray paint is also a good option. Once it is dry when you stick the sticks, you paint it and when it is all dry… you will have your shelf ready!
A trivet
Trivets are necessary in all homes as they have a very useful function to put hot pots or pans on top and that the tables or tablecloths are not damaged.
And with only 8 sticks (or more, depending on the size you want in your trivet), one next to the other and joining them at the bottom with three other sticks in the opposite direction will be more than enough. Then you will only have to paint with a spray and you will have your trivet.
Mini fruit box
A few toothpicks about a centimeter apart horizontally will be more than enough to start this small fruit box structure. You will have to glue the ice cream sticks on all sides and correctly so that they fit well on the sides and create a box shape.
Trim the rounded ends so that the box is square. You don't need to paint the box, as the color of the chopsticks will add a nice touch to your mini fruit box.
Earrings
The ends of the ice cream sticks are ideal for creating original earrings. With just an awl you can pierce the top of the earring to pass a ring or wire to help you create the earring shape.
Then you just have to paint it how you like them best. You can create different straight lines or paint it however you like. Cheap and recycled earrings, great idea!
Earring organizer
Besides having some nice earrings, you can also have your own organizer for them. You can put your new earrings made with ice cream sticks and also, all you want.
You will have to create two triangles with three sticks each and glue them with silicone. In the video you can clearly see how to do it, it will be great!