Treasure box with ice cream sticks. Recycling crafts

Children love to keep their little treasures: be it a candy, a small toy, a pebble or a park leaf. What do you think about making a very special homemade treasure box? At GuiaInfantil we have thought of creating a wooden box using ice cream sticks. A very entertaining children's craft with which chi

Children love to keep their little treasures: be it a candy, a small toy, a pebble or a park leaf. What do you think about making a very special homemade treasure box?

At GuiaInfantil we have thought of creating a wooden box using ice cream sticks. A very entertaining children's craft with which children will have fun while learning to recycle.

Materials

  • Flat wooden sticks
  • Scissors
  • Pink and orange paint
  • White cardboard
  • 2 butterfly or other decoration

How to make, step by step, a box with wooden sticks

1. Cut a square on a piece of cardboard and stick sticks pads over it

2. Next, stick four sticks making another square.

3. Repeat the process until the box is as high as you want. Remember to change the square side to leave a gap between the rows.

4. Paint some stick with watercolors and watercolors and paste the decoration that you like the most.

Video to learn how to make a box with ice cream sticks

This craft has been made byLaura Platas,ofZumoAnimaciones.