With Halloween right around the corner, I’ve been coming up with some easy and fun crafts for my kids to do. You can pretty much make anything with wooden craft sticks! We decided to make some Popsicle stick Halloween characters. They chose to make a ghost, monster, Jack O’ Lantern and Frankenstein.
Line 6 large craft sticks up, side by side. Hot glue another large craft stick diagonally across the 6 that are lined up side by side. Repeat this for each character you would like to create. Have an adult complete step one with hot glue.
Paint each set of popsicle sticks with foam paint brushes. We used orange for the Jack O’ Lantern, purple for the monster, white for the ghost and green for Frankenstein.
To make the ghost, Use glue dots to attach the googly eyes. Shake up the black paint pen and draw a mouth on your ghost!
Grab the orange popsicle sticks. Using the black paint pen, draw triangles for the eyes and nose. Draw a curved line for the mouth and add dashed lines across the curved line for the mouth.
To make the monster, take the purple popsicle sticks. Using the black paint pen draw a mouth on the sticks. Let the black paint dry. Use a white paint pen to add teeth! Using hot glue or glue dots add the monster’s eyes.
To make the Frankenstein, grab the green popsicle sticks. Using glue dots, attach the googly eyes. Using the black paint pen draw the mouth, eyebrows, stitches and hair.
How fun are these Halloween characters!? My kids are having so much fun playing with them. Make sure to tag #orientaltrading and #ellaandannie when sharing your popsicle stick Halloween characters! We’d love to see what other characters your kiddos create. If you love this, you may enjoy our DIY trick or treat bags, paper plate monsters and our Halloween canvas paint ideas!
Want more Halloween toddler craft ideas? Be sure to check out all of our Halloween Toddler Crafts and our Popsicle Stick Halloween Crafts!