Each year as Christmas approaches we search for homemade Christmas ornament ideas for our yearly ornament project. This year I’ve found several unique popsicle stick ornaments and decided to put my favorites together here in this article. We’ve also come up with a few ideas of our own.
Crafting plain popsticks, also called craft sticks, into hand made ornaments is a fun project for our entire family. We enjoyed working on these cute ornaments made from wooden craft sticks, paint and glue.
Toy Soldier Popsicle Stick Ornament
1. Jumbo and also Mini Craft Sticks make a Cute Soldier
We were inspired to make this Toy Soldier Ornament from another toy soldier ornament we’ve had for a very long time. I also looked up some other pictures online to get ideas for colors. I wasn’t going to paint his hands (leaving them the color of wood), but messed up and painted them red by accident. Soooo my idea was to paint them white like white gloves. I think it turned out OK.
The body is made from a jumbo craft stick, the arms are mini sticks and the hat is a 3/4″ long end piece from a jumbo craft stick.
At the last minute, I added a thin lighter blue stripe between the bottom of the pants legs and the black boot. The colors were both dark and needed some sort of separation.
2. Craft Stick Snowman Ornaments from Happy Hooligans

3. Craft Stick Christmas Puzzles from Fireflies and Mud Pies

4. Craft Stick Christmas Tree Ornaments from Hands On As We Grow
5. Where’s the North Pole? 2 Miles That Way!
This idea comes from Mrs. Ritenour’s Class. I don’t know Mrs. Ritenour, but stumbled across her webpage online and now wish I had been in her class. The kid’s crafts displayed in her room make me want to try each and every one.
This ornament is so simple, yet perfectly colorful and festive. It’s a cute candycane decorated sign with directions to the North Pole. Mrs. Ritenour and students used white foam paper for the sign, but I didn’t have any white foam so I’m using some other paper I had in my craft supplies. And I cut the jumbo craft stick at 5 inches (with heavy duty scissors) so it would have a flat bottom.
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