Kids love to do crafts, and craft sticks can create easy and unique people.
Kids love to make crafts, and craft sticks are a cheap item to have in your craft supplies. They can be used to make boxes and houses, bridges and people. People can be made and entire stories acted out. Kings and queens, moms and dads and children, or even animals can be created out of craft or Popsicle sticks. Clothes can be made of chenille or pipe cleaners. You can also use scraps of craft items to dress the people, so it is a good way to use up leftovers.
Instructions
1. Glue one end of a chenille to the end of a small craft stick.
2. Wrap it around the stick. Stop wrapping about 3/8 of an inch from the bottom. Cut the chenille and glue it to the stick. Do the same with a second stick. These are the arms of the king, so make sure you have used a chenille in a royal color for his shirt.
3. Cut part way up a jumbo craft stick to create two legs.
4. Glue the two arms to the back of the jumbo craft stick.
5. Glue a chenille to the back of a stick where the neck would start, leaving about 3/4 of an inch bare at the top. This will be the head.
6. Wrap the chenille down the body of the stick. This is the shirt, so stop when you reach what you feel is the waist of the king. Cut and glue the chenille when you reach the waist.
7. Wrap pants in the same way, starting at the waist. Be sure to wrap each leg separately.
8. Wrap shoes at the very bottom.
9. Wrap a gold crown at the top of the head. You could also cut out a small crown from yellow foam sheets and glue it to the front of the head.
10. Draw a face on the craft stick above the shirt.
