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Quick Kids Craft: Stick Men

What crafts to make with sticks? Easy! Remember our Stick Men from ages ago? Well we made more!

crafts with sticks

Pip Squeak had a go too – you can see the one with the squished fabric! She added tons of glue and squished it on. I think it looks rather lovely and robe like!!

Red Ted now likes to practice counting with these (especially pointing out that more of them are his).

So.. now get your Nature Bags, go find some sticks and Get Crafty!

Want more Stick Crafts? Check out:

10 Stick Crafts - finally get crafty with all those sticks brought back from walks

UPDATE: Having seen our photo above:

Oooh a reader and friend sent me this picture of her stick men! Hooray! I am sure that anthropologists would delight at these colourful men. I love the addition of pipecleaners, hats and hair!

stick men

And check out these giants sent to me via twitter @TinyTinRobot using wrapping paper & ribbons. Brilliant!

stick men

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  1. These are lovely. I like the idea of leaving some in the park to make passers by laugh. I think eyes and glue are going to be permanent fixtures in my handbag now.

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  4. Oh my, I LOVE the idea of leaving some in the park! How funny!! And imagine if a dog found it…

    And yes, we use old children’s clothes. In this example we used some old socks and jeans 🙂

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  7. It would be fun to take a nature hike specifically to look for sticks that look like they have arms and legs. Then add the clothes and eyes when you return. I love the idea of using this activity with the Stick Man book (happens to be a favorite book in our house).

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  9. Ahhh. How lovely!

    We’ve just returned from Edinburgh and all enjoyed ‘Stick Man – the show!’ at the Fringe Festival.

    We’re keen to collect some sticks, attach some googly eyes, make them some clothes and get ourselves a Stick Family Tree! Just need this rain to stop (a bit) x

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  10. Ooooh lucky you! Would love to see the show! Will have to check on whether it will tour…

    Now – rain rain go away.. people have stick men to make!

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  15. thank you thank you thank you! My little one is bringing home stones and sticks since… maybe 6 months. I am not allowed to throw them away. We figured out what to do with the stones (painting them) and a blogging colleague has also given me some tips on what to do with the sticks. With your post I cannot actually wait till Tina brings more sticks home… right! thank u so much for sharing

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  16. Kasia

    That put a huge smile on my face! 🙂

    Have a another little craft for you on Wednesday, that may help too!!!

    Maggy

    Se7en

    I LOVE your men too!

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  21. What a fun activity! I love the way all of the stick men turned out,m I can see my nephew really enjoying this project. When we took down our tree, me and hubby cut up all of the useful branches for projects throughout the year, this one may have to go on the list. 🙂

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    • Ooh I would love to have a set of “wooden discs” etc…. but we don’t have any wood cutting tools (nor a tree to cut down for that matter). But Stick Men do make us happy! So I am pleased you like them too!!!

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  24. Oh I love these – my youngest is obsessed with sticks, this is perfect for getting creative with her ever-growing collection! #naturallycrafty

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