5 decorating ideas with popsicle sticks: easy, inexpensive and useful

In this tutorial i bring you 5 easy and inexpensive ideas to create objects with ice cream sticks. You can make shelves, earrings with their organizer, mini boxes for fruit or even trivets. They have many possibilities and you can design them to your liking.

Materials

The main materials that you will need in almost all these ideas will be:

• Ice cream sticks
• Gun silicone
• Scissors
• Painting

They can vary a bit depending on the object you want to create and how you want to do it. For example, if you want to mark a template you will need a stencil pattern y spray paint, as you will see in the trivet tutorial, and for the earrings you will need the earring wire y Scotch tape to create the painting design.

Step by step

In the next video-tutorial You can see the process of making each of the 5 decorating ideas with popsicle sticks. You will see that they are easy y Quick of doing. And do not forget subscribe ours YouTube Channel so as not to miss any of the tutorials we publish.

We are going to review each of the ideas so that you do not forget any step and you can make yourself easily.

Shelving

Join six sticks at the ends by gluing them with the silicone in gun and creating a hexagon. From the first row, stick more on it until you have a good number of layers left, enough to be able to place your decorative objects on it. Paint it with acrylic paint, although you can also do it with spray paint, and when it dries you will have a shelf ready to hang.

Mat

You must place eight sticks next to each other, and join them at the bottom with three other sticks in the opposite direction. To decorate the trivet, place a stencil template on top and apply spray paint. Remove the template and you will have the design marked. You can now use your trivet to place the coffee maker, a source, a pot ...

Mini fruit box

Place a few toothpicks apart one centimeter approximately horizontally. You must stick the toothpicks on all sides, so stick on vertical a toothpick in each of the ends, these will be the ones that hold the sides. Go by cutting the rounded ends so that the box is square. In this way you can store kiwis, tangerines or any small fruit in a decorative y creative.

Earrings

Cut the ends of the toothpicks, or make them the shape you want. With a awl pierce the popsicle stick and make a hole to go through the one ring which in turn will be hooked to the earring structure. Paint them the way you like them with acrylic paint. In this case you can create sections by pasting Scotch tape to paint straight lines. And so you have some earrings training and very economic.

Earring organizer

Create two triangles, each with three sticks, and fix them with silicone. Place them side by side and glue the ends of another stick onto them, leaving a triangle on each side. Paste as many as you want on one or both sides. Paint it with acrylic paint or with spray the color you like best, and when it dries you will have a decorative space where to leave your pending earrings.