Popsicle Stick Crafts

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How to Make a Popsicle Stick Picture Frame

Build a square picture frame from eight craft sticks with overlapped corners, then add a card pocket for the photo and a twine loop or stick stand.

Twelve craft sticks side by side and two cross sticks on the back make one square coaster. Build a set of four and finish it three ways.

Sketch at full size, measure in whole sticks, dry fit on your own paper template and count sticks with spares before you open the glue.

The four basic craft stick joints, why end-to-end joints fail, and how braces, gussets, doubled layers and log-cabin stacking stiffen a structure.

White glue, tacky glue and wood glue compared for craft stick projects, plus how to apply a thin layer, clamp the joint and avoid warping.

What craft sticks are, the three common sizes, the short list of supplies you need, and the four kinds of first project that teach the core skills.