Bring your imagination to life and make a nutcracker hat with your kids! It's as simple as popsicle sticks, glue, and some colorful decorations.
🎄 Create Holiday Magic with a Popsicle Stick Nutcracker Hat Craft! 🖌️
Looking for a festive and creative activity to keep the kids entertained this holiday season? This Popsicle Stick Nutcracker Hat Craft is the perfect way to spark their imagination and add a handmade touch to your Christmas décor!
Using simple supplies like popsicle sticks, craft paint, and our free nutcracker printable, your little ones can create a colorful and charming nutcracker hat.
Whether it’s for a classroom project, a family crafting session, or a unique ornament idea, this craft is easy, fun, and full of holiday cheer. Follow our step-by-step guide and let the crafting begin!
Get your kids crafting this Christmas season with this fun and easy nutcracker hat tutorial from us! With a few simple supplies and a bit of creativity, your little ones will have their own unique holiday craft to show off all season long!
Craft Supplies:
- Jumbo Popsicle Sticks – 9 per craft
- Red Craft Paint
- Green Craft Paint
- Paint Brushes
- Small Paper Plate
- Hot Glue Gun
- White Cardstock Paper
- Nutcracker Printable – on our landing page
- Crayons
- Scissors
- Embellishments
Directions:
- First things first – squirt your two craft paint colors on your paper plate.
- Now lay out your NINE popsicle sticks on your working surface.
- Divide them into two groups.
- Paint FIVE of the craft sticks red, while the remaining FOUR you will paint them green.
- Once done painting, allow them to dry a bit.
- Next up – grab your printable. Color in the nutcracker head design however you like. When done, trim it out.
- Finish up the craft by hot gluing your NINE popsicle sticks together to look like a hat {7 next to each and two across on the bottom, in a rotating pattern} to represent the patterned colors of the hat. You want the rim of the hat to be TWO white painted popsicle sticks.
- Follow that up by hot gluing the paper cutout to the back of the hat shape.
- Again, set aside to let it dry completely.
- Then add other embellishments and display proudly for all to see!!!
- BTW – you could also cut glue some string to the back to turn it into an ornament today!
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Popsicle Stick Nutcracker Hat Craft Idea
Bring your imagination to life and make a nutcracker hat with your kids! It's as simple as popsicle sticks, glue, and some colorful decorations.
Here’s your checklist of supplies to bring this craft to life:
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Directions:
- First things first - squirt your two craft paint colors on your paper plate.
- Now lay out your NINE popsicle sticks on your working surface.
- Divide them into two groups.
- Paint FIVE of the craft sticks red, while the remaining FOUR you will paint them green.
- Once done painting, allow them to dry a bit.
- Next up - grab your printable. Color in the nutcracker head design however you like. When done, trim it out.
- Finish up the craft by hot gluing your NINE popsicle sticks together to look like a hat {7 next to each and two across on the bottom, in a rotating pattern} to represent the patterned colors of the hat. You want the rim of the hat to be TWO white painted popsicle sticks.
- Follow that up by hot gluing the paper cutout to the back of the hat shape.
- Again, set aside to let it dry completely.
- Then add other embellishments and display proudly for all to see!!!
- BTW - you could also cut glue some string to the back to turn it into an ornament today!
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