Do you love Halloween as much as I do? It is in my top two favorite holidays – the other being Christmas, of course. And you know what I like most about Halloween? No, not the candy. Crafting. There are so many fun ways to craft Halloween (and Christmas too).
Because I am a Popsicle Ambassador and we eat a LOT of Popsicles, one art supply that is never in short supply is Popsicle sticks. So I decided to turn some plain ‘ole sticks into some Halloween fun.
The best part about crafting with Popsicle sticks is that it is totally green (reusing something that would otherwise be trashed) and practically free! (I mean you are gonna eat Popsicles anyway, right?) Oh, and it is super easy too.
How To Make A Halloween Pumpkin Popsicle Stick Door Hanger
Materials:
- 13 Popsicle sticks
- Orange paint (we use Crayola Washable Paint for everything because accidents happen)
- 1 Pipe cleaner (or ribbon)
- Glue (we use Elmer’s School Glue)
- Black vinyl (alternates below)
- Rubber cement & paper (optional – see below)
Tip – always make sure to thoroughly wash your Popsicle sticks. I throw ours in the dishwasher with the silverware.
The first step is to paint your Popsicle sticks. We’ve painted a lot of sticks in the past, but this time I decided to be brave and let my toddler paint with us. As I was setting things up, I had a light bulb moment. (Seriously, I am a genius.)
One of the hardest things about painting Popsicle sticks is that they slide all over the place. So to make it easy for my toddler (and my Kindergartener), I placed a small dab of Rubber Cement on the back of each stick and stuck them to a piece of paper. Then my girls could paint without chasing sticks.
Best idea ever. Will use this in many future projects.
(Plus my girls turned the piece of paper they painted on into a mini art project.)
Once the paint is dry, it is time for assembly.
Simply place a thin line of glue on the side of each stick and stick 10 sticks together like so.
Then glue two sticks across the back on a diagonal and break the final stick in half to glue at the top and bottom (see picture). This secures your stick and makes the project study.
For the Pumpkin Face, I created a printable template.
Download the Pumpkin Face Template here.
After printing and cutting out the template, I traced it onto the back of a scrap piece of vinyl. Then I cut out the face pieces and stuck them on. (So easy.)
- Trace your shapes onto black paper and glue the face on with a glue stick
- Use the template to make a reverse stencil and use black paint or a Sharpie to create the face
And there you have it, a fun and season craft for the whole family (even toddlers). Now, go out and buy some Popsicles so you can enjoy eating your way to crafting.
Happy Crafting & Happy Halloween!
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Very cute!
My kids love to make picture frames for each holiday!
I think we’ll make a picture frame with the leftover popsicle sticks.
I Would Do The Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft!
I always enjoyed make sleds during christmas time by putting popsicle sticks together!
I plan on making the pumpkin craft shown above and maybe the picture frame.
I really like the picture frame one bc you can use it year round
This is a cute idea, I will have to make this with my youngest son. I see a trip for some paint in the near future.
My daughter is very patriotic, I’m sure she would love to make a popsicle stick flag!
I like the sight words game made with popsicle sticks.
Oh…I love the Popsicle Pumpkin! I think my 3 year old Grandson would love to make this for his pre-school classroom and for home. Adorable!!
that is such a great idea! my kids would love doing something like that! We also like making picture frames with Popsicle sticks!
The pumpkin craft is really cute, and the timing is just right. Thanks for the good idea.
I like the frame from popsicle sticks. I direct a summer day camp and there are some good ideas here for crafts! Thanks!
I would make a toy house
We would make these little jack o lanterns. They are really cute. Thanks.
I love the DIY sight words!
I think we’d do the DIY sight word game with the Popsicle sticks. It looks like a fun and creative way to encourage learning!
I love this! I would love to do the door hanger!
I think we’d make some popsicle stick picture frames.
We would love to make the Popsicle Picture Frame..maybe several of them to put around the house! Thanks so much for hosting this giveaway!
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Like the Halloween pumpkin popsicle stick hanger since it is so close to Halloween, but the Popsicle picture frame would be great and easy to make with the kids also.
This is adorable. I also want to make the sight words game that you did a tutorial about.
Thanks for all of the fun projects- and a reason to eat more Popsicles!
I will probably make the picture frames with the kids to give to grandparents with their picture in.
I would like to make Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft.
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The Popcicle stick frame is really cute! I’d make that!
I like the flag craft.
I would make the Popsicle Stick 4th of July Flag Craft. What a fun way to show love for our country!
I think I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
Popsicle Stick 4th of July Flag Craft.
I thinks this is great. Always looking for fun crafts to make with my child and the kids I babysit.
I like the idea of frames for the holidays 🙂
We would make Popsicle Stick Picture Frame
My son is obsessed with building boats and trailers from popsicle sticks.
I Would Do The Popsicle Stick Picture Frame.
I would use the leftover popsicle sticks to make treasure boxes for my daughter. We made some this summer and they turned out very cute.
I like the idea of making picture frames with the Popsicle sticks
I would make a schooner.
I’d love to make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft witht he kids!! they’d love it!
I like the picture frames
I like the sight word game, helps kids learn new words.
This is super cute! I want to make one of these now. Hehe!
Thanks for the giveaway! =)
I’d like to do the 4th of july fireworks but turn them into snowflakes by painting them a glittery white.
My children make picture frames for holiday gifts!
DIY Sight Words Game Made From Popsicle Sticks
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looks cool
The Halloween Pumpkin Door Hanger.
a picture frame
the picture frame is cute.
I’d like to make the frame. My kids would love doing this craft. I also like the pumpkin idea.
I would make the picture frame for Halloween with the help from my grandson who’s birthday is a few days before Halloween
really cute pumpkin, I think we would make the ornaments. My daughter would like the stars.
the diy sight words
I don’t think I would keep the popsicle sticks. I think I would give them to my younger cousins. I think they would enjoy them more than me
I would make the Popsicle stick picture frame.
Adorable! We are going to make these for sure!!! Thanks.
I am going to make the Halloween Pumpkin Popsicle Stick Door Hanger Craft
I think my youngest would like to make the cute pumpkin door hanger you shared in this post.
I would try the DIY Sight Words Game Made From Popsicle Sticks.. It would be great for my daughter in kindergarten.
I think the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft would be a fun one.
Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft I like and the kids would love having their pic displayed in their own art work
I like the picture frame. I think its something my youngest would enjoy.
i actually would choose the door hanger , it is adorable
I would like to make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
I would make the picture frame.
the picture frame seems like a fun and easy idea for my kids to do
I’d like to try the 4th of July arts & crafts project
I like the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft especially with the holidays coming up
I think the 4th Of July Popsicle Stick Fireworks Kids Craft would be fun.
in middle school we actully build structures out of them and had a contest to see how many textbooks they could hold!
make a toy house
I like the Halloween Pumpkin Popsicle Stick Door Hanger
I would like to try the picture frame craft with my son.
We would definitely like to make frames!
I think my boys would like to make picture frames.
i want to make a winter house with the kids or halloween house probaly would be better, we tried once but the kids were to small, so they are a little older now so i think it would be more fun for them. we will make some picture frames for gifts for the holidays, grandmas would love it
I think I agree with what most people have said – picture frames would be a really cute way to use the leftovers!
Sight word sticks are a great idea!
I love the popsicle stick picture frame.
i would like the stick picture frame
I really like the DIY Sight Words Game:)
We would probably make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft for the holidays.
The popsicle stick flag is awesome!
I would make picture frames with them and a fort.
Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
I like the picture frame.
I like the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
The Popsicle Stick picture frame!!
I would have the grand kids make picture frames
picture frames
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Maybe a little box to hold pencils
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I like the 4th of July Flag
We’d make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft – thank you.
Picture frame.
Thanks for the contest.
I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame
Thanks for the great Halloween craft idea, its very cute. I love that we can reuse popsicle sticks.
Make crosses!
Frames or crosses
I’ll make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft.
I will make the picture frame.
I would make the halloween door hangers
I like the popsicle sticks picture frame crafts!
the picture frame would be cool to make!
I will be making these cute door hangers! cute idea
I’d make a castle.
I would have my girls make snowflakes for the Christmas tree. Thank you!!
I’d make a DIY Sight Words Game.
We’d do picture frames and so much more.
all the craft projects were great but i think i would do the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
The popsicle picture frame is a cute idea for kids.
I really like the 4th Of July Popsicle Stick Fireworks Kids Craft
I like the picture frames.
Thanks for the chance.
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I would make some magnetic picture frames for the fridge.
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I would make the door hangers! I could see making leprechauns for st. Patricks day and bunnies for Easter too!
the picture frames are cute
I’d probably have my daughter do http://www.thesuburbanmom.com/2013/05/20/popsicle-stick-picture-frame-kids-craft/
my boys would love to do the picture frames
I would make the Halloween Pumpkin Popsicle Stick Door Hangers, so cute!
I love having different frames in my house with pictures and I like the craft called Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft. I think this would make a cute frame for some of my pictures. I want to make this craft.
I would love to make picture frames with my leftover sticks!
I could make picture frames for all my Nieces
My kids would love making the snowflakes craft!
Oh I would love to make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft with Carter!
I like the Picture Frame craft.
I would make the picture frame craft, definitely. These would make cute gifts for the grands.
I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame.
id make a jewelry box
The picture frames are cute!
My 3-year old is really curious about words and reading, so the sight words game would be great!
I’d make the popsicle stick photo frame.
I like the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
We would make the picture frames for sure! My son would love that.
Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
We will try to make a scare crow with our sticks
I would make picture frames to put pics of my grand children in.
We have done picture frames before and would probably do them again!
That’s really cute. So easy to use and for sure children and adult will love making this. Can’t wait to do it my own! 😀
I am going to make the pumpkin door hanger.
I would use the extras to make SWAPs with the girl scouts.
I like your Popsicle Stick Fireworks, and I think I’d make them in red, green, and white to use as Christmas decorations.
i will make the pumpkins…we love Halloween!
Popsicle stick Christmas Tree decorations
I love the picture frame. It would make a great gift for thee grandparents. I will have to add it to our list for christmas crafts. Plus the Pumpkin door hanger is so cute.
I’d do the DIY Sight Words Game! 🙂
Popsicle stick fireworks…
this is such a cute idea we will be making them on sat after we go to the pumpkin patch.
I’d make the DIY Sight Words Game .
Definitely the pumpkin door hanger.
we’ll make Popsicle stick picture frames.
I like the Picture Frames. They would be very useful.
I would make turkey place-mats for Thanksgiving with them! 🙂
i made a little dolls for sick children from our local children hospital
I would make a picture frame.
I would try the picture frame and add a magnet to the back for the fridge.
Hmmm.. I really like these pumpkin hangers, they are cute. I’ve actually never used my popsicle sticks for anything I must start saving them
I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame
I will use our leftovers to make some star Christmas tree ornaments. I love your DIY Sight Words Game and when my girls are a little older I will be making it 🙂
I like the pumpkin
I would make the popsicle stick picture frames. They are so cute.
I would make the picture frame!
I would make the pumpkin door hanger
I will make the popsicle stick picture frame.
Picture frame.
id like to make the sight words game
I think the DIY sight word game would be fun.
We will make picture frames!
I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame.
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We’d make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
I really like your sight word game and will probably make that for the boy I watch! He’s in 1st grade and we are always looking for new ways to practice sight words 🙂
I think the picture frame would be fun to make
I would make the picture frame.
I would do the dyi sight words game
I would make the pumpkin door hanger. it’s adorable.
Picture frames
I like the flag craft
We’d make decorated door hangers.
The 4th of July flags would be a great craft for decorating our cubicles at work.
The 4th of July flags would make great decorations for our cubicles at work.
a picture frame
I like the Popsicle Pumpkin!
I think the picture frame is a great idea!
We will make popsicle stick picture frames for the new school pictures.
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I think the popsicle picture frames are adorable. You can get so creative with this.
i’d make the popsicle pumpkin
I would make the 4th Of July Popsicle Stick Fireworks Kids Craft, thanks!
I like the flag craft.
A bowl for halloween candy – I’m positive my family could eat enough popsicles to get the amount of sticks needed! 😉
I would make plant markers with them both for the small starter plants and later when they are transplanted outdoors.
Popsicle sticks make cute picture frames.
Popsicle Stick Picture Frame
I like the popsicle stick picture frames
We would make a few of the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
I like the frame made from popsicle sticks
I like the fireworks! I’d love to make them into snowflakes
I like the picture frames
I like the place mats.
I know my kids would make something like a car trailer or guardrails for their match box cars. They are very creative.
The Popsicle Stick 4th of July Flag Craft For Kids is cute
I would like to make a bird house with my children out of popsicle sticks.
I’m always looking for craft ideas to do with my 2 and 4 year old. My son is so excited about halloween this year so we’ll have to make this, i’d love to make the popsicle picture frame as well!
i would build houses with sticks
i like the picture frame idea! It’s really cute!
build a picture frame
I would build a picture frame .
I would make the sight words game with the leftover popsicle sticks.
I would make a picture frame.
I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft, so cute!
Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
when I was little I would make bird houses out of the left over sticks
I think we’ll make a picture frame 🙂
I’d make the picture frame.
we would make the picture frame
I would use the leftover sticks to make puppets
I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft with my son.
I would make the sight words game for my youngest son.
I would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame with my son.
I would make the popsicle fourth of july fireworks craft! Thanks!!
I like the picture frame(:
I like the DIY sight words game!
My girls used to make things like bird houses and picture frames.
I will make birdhouses.
I would make little picture frame ornaments for our Christmas Tree this year!
My Granchildren would like to make picture frames with them
My Grandchildren would love to make picture frames with them
I love the idea of making creative picture frames for family photos with the leftover sticks!
The popsicle stick picture frame made with popsicle sticks is cute. Thanks.
I would love to make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft
i would make the Popsicle Stick Picture Frame Kids Craft!
the picture frame is cute
We will make picture frames
I’d make a picture frame
Love the Picture Frame Popsicle stick craft.
I’d like to make the picture frame
I like the 4th Of July Popsicle Stick Fireworks Kids Craft
Thanks for the giveaway… Popsicle Stick Picture Frames
posicle sticks picture frames
I would make the Popsicle stick picture frame.
These are really cool. Thank you for sharing this craft with us.