Snowman Stars - Popsicle Stick Ornaments - Red Ted Art

Oh how we love the Winter season with all the wonderful crafty opportunities! We adore making Christmas Ornaments, but also look forward to making some cute Snowman Crafts! So why not combine the two together, to make these super duper cute Snowman Star Ornaments? They are part of a set of popsicle star ornaments that we simply adore!

This is a wonderful craft stick star ornament that can be made with any size of craft sticks. Here we used some medium sized craft sticks – however, we have use “recycled” popsicle sticks many times before and they are make lovely sized Craft Stick Ornament too! Check these out:

Santa Star Ornaments – Nativity Star Ornament – General Star Ornament

Supplies needed for the Snowman Star Ornament:

Five craft sticks per snowman
White paint (though you can leave it in plain wood color too)
Paper scraps in desired snowman colors – you can probably get away with just printer paper and pens!
Felt tip pens for details
Scissors
Glue stick/ glue gun/ school glue*
Ribbon for hanging

*we used regular school glue, but it will need longer drying times. I did test it with a glue stick too… and if you use a GOOD QUALITY glue stick and take a LOT of glue, it can stick craft sticks too. But it isn’t as strong.

Watch the snowman star video tutorial or follow the step by step instructions below!

How to make you Snowman Star Ornaments!

Paint your craft sticks white!

Make your popsicle stick star (pentagram)

So as mentioned our popsicle stick star ornaments are five pointed stars, also known as pentagrams.

We found it useful to have a ready made one laid out to “copy”. If you haven’t made one already (why would you! Ha!). You can lay one out so you and the kids have one to “follow”. It just makes it a little easier!

Start by laying one craft stick down in a way that creates the “top point”. Add a blob of regular craft glue to the top of this craft stick and add a second stick pointing down. To make the beginning of a capital A shape!

Now add a blob of glue to the bottom of the second craft stick.

Lay a third popsicle stick on to that glue and make it point back up towards the top left hand side.

Add another bit of glue to the top of the third craft stick. Now add the fourth craft stick to go horizontally across.

For the last fifth craft, you will need to add to bits of glue – one to the fourth and one to the first craft sticks.

Place your final craft stick in place. As you have used PVA glue, your star is not yet “secure. We like to give it a bit of a wiggle to make sure we are happy with the final shape.

Note: the 5th and the 1st popsicle stick sometimes “lift” off each other whilst drying. So you may want to add a little more glue later and maybe way it down. Or secure it with hot glue if you need to!