These POPSICLE STICK STAR ORNAMENTS  are easy to make using popsicle sticks and craft jewels. They’re one of my favourite popsicle stick crafts for toddlers and preschoolers.
We are well and truly in Christmas countdown mode now. My daycare hooligans and I have only 2 days left together before we break for the holidays. We have done a TON of Christmas crafting this year, and we’re still squeezing a couple more in. Today, it’s these popsicle stick star ornaments.
These simple star ornaments are easy enough for toddlers and preschoolers to make for Christmas, but the results are so pretty that older kids may enjoy making them as well.
Once you’ve given this simple star craft a try, you can check out this epic collection of star ornaments.
Craft Stick Star Ornament supplies:
- craft sticks
(6 per star) - glue gun
- paint
- craft jewels (you could use anything really: foam bits, pompoms, glitter, buttons etc)
(6 per star)I used my hot glue gun to make the stars ahead of time, but if you have a low-heat glue gun (which I do, but I don’t have glue sticks for at the moment), your child, depending on his or her age, could help with this part or even do it on their own.
I’ve written before about using a low-heat glue gun with your child. The hooligans love ours!
How to  make a craft stick star:
Using your glue gun, make 2 triangles with your popsicle sticks, and invert one triangle on top of the other, and glue those together.
Now let your little ones paint their stars.
Use a hairdryer to dry the popsicle sticks if you want to speed things up. necessary.
Pro tip: While I was blowdrying the stars I learned something that could come in quite handy one day. Â
How to unstick hot glue
If you ever need to unstick something that’s been hot-glued together, just give it a blast for a minute or so with your hair dryer. The heat is strong enough to soften and melt the glue! I know this because the first star fell apart as I was speed-drying it. lol  Handy tip though, isn’t it?
When the stars were dry, the hooligans jazzed them up with gems and jewels.
In the past, when we’ve made these stars, we’ve painted them white or gold, but today, I had the hooligans paint with whatever colour they wanted to, and I’m so glad they did. I love how bright and colourful they are!
Great Hanukkah craft!
I often receive comments about this post from people saying they’ll use it as a Star of David decoration when crafting for Hanukkah.
I think that’s a great idea!
You might also like these Hanukkah craft ideas from Make and Takes.
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Marie Dobbs Brasseit
I was waiting to see what you made! Love them, especially since you painted them colors and I may even use glitter on mine! :). I may also make enough to give to the neighborhood little ones…..who knows?!
Merry Christmas and thanks for all your fun crafts!
ps. I made a couple of the twig ornaments and gave them to my African Grey and he loved them……chewed them right up he did! Haha……anyway, he enjoyed them!
happyhooligans
I love your Christmas spirit, Marie! So glad you’re getting right into making all of these crafts! I’m sure your African Grey is loving it too! Haha!
Inese Bokiša
Nice, nice , nice!!!:):):)
marilyn
this star is also a jewish star can be a chanukah decoration marilyn
Beth
Great tip about undoing hot glue! Nice ornaments. We’ve had the kids make them at our Hanukkah before. Lots of fun.
Cheryl Gwyrfai-Jones
Have made these for the last fifteen years with my class, they put a photo of themselves in the middle & we date them. The decorations come out every year for most of the children. I know because they tell me that their older brothers/sisters bring them out every year!! 😉