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Make this easy Popsicle Stick Airplane Craft for kids using craft sticks, paint, and pipe cleaners. A fun and simple airplane craft that’s perfect for imaginative play.
Popsicle Stick Airplanes
These colorful Popsicle Stick Airplanes are the perfect craft for little aviators! Made with just a few simple supplies like clothespins, colored craft sticks, and pipe cleaners, kids can decorate and build their own mini planes, then zoom them through the sky for some imaginative play. It’s a great mix of creativity and hands-on fun that’s sure to take crafting time to new heights!
Kids love building something they can actually “zoom” around the house afterward! This activity is easy enough to make without a bunch of complicated steps. A little paint, some glue, and a pipe cleaner propeller turn simple craft sticks into the cutest little airplanes.
Materials Needed To Make A Popsicle Stick Airplanes
- Jumbo Popsicle Sticks, two per airplane you want to do*
- Regular Popsicle Sticks, two per airplane you want to do*
- Cardstock, scrap paper is perfect for this!
- Clothespin, one per airplane
- Black Craft Paint, optional
- Mini Black Pom Poms, two per airplane
- Black Pipe Cleaners
- Hot Glue Gun and Gluesticks – ADULTS ONLY!
* We used colored popsicle sticks for this craft but you are free to buy plain popsicle sticks and paint them yourselves.
How to Make a Popsicle Stick Airplane
STEP ONE:
- Paint your clothespins black. Let dry completely.
(This step is completely optional but we like to add a little mess to our crafting time sometimes.)
STEP TWO:
- Using small strips of paper add stripes to your popsicle stick. Glue in place and trim excess. Let kids have fun designing popsicle sticks in whatever way they love best.
STEP THREE:
- Glue the top of your clothespin to the middle of your jumbo popsicle stick.
- Glue the bottom of your clothespin tot he middle of your regular size popsicle stick.
- Repeat with the bottom two popsicle sticks.
STEP THREE:
- Glue a mini pom pom to the very top of your clothespin, the area that opens and closes.
- Cut a piece of pipe cleaner and glue directly to the pom pom.
- Glue one more pom pom on top, pressing it down to sandwich the pipe cleaner between both pom poms.
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