Make your kids holiday season extra special with this fun and festive craft! Let their imaginations run wild, creating a red and green colored nutcracker hat out of popsicle sticks and colorful decorations.
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:
- NINE Jumbo Popsicle Sticks
- Red Craft Paint
- Green Craft Paint
- Paint Brushes
- Small Paper Plate
- Hot Glue Gun
- White Cardstock Paper
- Nutcracker Printable – on box.com
- 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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