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Uncle Sam Popsicle Stick Craft

Have some Independence Day fun with this easy Uncle Sam Craft made with popsicle sticks. With only a few supplies, this is a great patriotic craft.
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Kids Crafts
Servings: 1 Uncle Sam Craft
Author: Alli Ward

Equipment

Ingredients

  • White paper plate
  • Acrylic paint red, white, blue
  • Paintbrush
  • 10 Popsicle sticks
  • Foam sheet blue, yellow pink or pink, yellow or blue paper.
  • Pair of googly eyes

Instructions

  • Paint three popsicle sticks red and three white leaving the bottom of the stick natural wood.
    Paint the popsicle sticks red and white
  • Next, the simple step is to paint two of the sticks completely blue
    Paint tow sticks blue
  • Cut the two remaining sticks the length of red and white stripes popsicle width.
    Cut both the curve parts of the remaining 2 popsicle sticks
  • Grab your glue gun and a glue stick and plug it in and heat it up.
    Arrange the popsicle sticks alternately in color. (red, white, red, white...)
  • Turn the popsicle sticks over and glue the cut pieces to the back of the red and white sticks.
    Then glue the two cut popsicle sticks at the back, for them to stick together
  • The next step is to cut the paper plate into a C shape. We start by cutting the paper plate in half. Then cut the center out in a "U". The only thing you need to make sure is to you do not cut it wider than the red and white sticks. This is going to be his beard, so you want to make sure it fits on his face. The last step is to slightly round the edges of your paper plate.
    : Add the pair of googly eyes and cut nose at the space that is not painted. Get the paper plate and cut it in half, take the other half then cut another half circle and curve the edges, forming a letter C.
  • The next step is to cut a small nose out of the pink foam. Then glue it to the bottom middle of the red and white popsicle sticks on the natural wood space. Then add the googly eyes right above it.
    Align them together, the popsicle sticks above, the blue popsicles in the middle and the paper plate below them, and glue them using the glue gun.
  • Using the yellow foam, cut out three stars. You can draw the stars on the back of the foam and cut out the edges. You can also use a star craft punch if you have it.
    cut yellow stars out of the yellow form
  • The next step is to glue all the items onto the face of uncle sam. First start by gluing the beard onto the sticks, right under the nose. Next glue the first blue stick right above your eyes and the top of your beard. The second blue stick is just glued right above it. The last step is to cut two small pieces out of the white foam for the mustache. These can be a crescent shape and then cut the tip off each piece right under the nose.
    Glue the blue popsicle sticks to the bottom of the hat
  • The last step is to glue the yellow stars to the blue strip which is the brim of the hat.
    Glue the stars to the blue popsicle sticks.

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