Love Bug Popsicle Craft for Kids
Love Bug Popsicle Craft for Kids, a fun do it yourself craft idea suitable for most ages made with dollar store materials.
Yield: 1
Materials
Also needed- glue or glue gun and sticks, black marker, pink marker (for cheeks).
Instructions
- To make the love bug's body, line up four jumbo craft sticks on your work surface next to one another with the tops and bottoms in an even line.
- Next, using the two halves of the cut stick, make the cross bars that will be used to hold the four sticks in place. Glue one half on the top (about ½" from the edge) and the other on the bottom to hold the sticks together
- Once the glue has dried, flip the love bug over. Paint the front side of the glued sticks using the acrylic craft paint While the paint dried you can make the wings and antennae.
- For the wings- trace two sticks side by side or something similar size on to the light pink paper and then cut the wings out. You can trim the ends to cut off the corners. For the dots, on the darker pink paper, trace a quarter for two circles and a nickel for the other two. Use a marker to make the spots on the cut out circles. Then glue a large dot on one end on the wings and a small dot on the others.
- For the antennae twist a light and a dark pipe cleaner together. Then swirl the tops of the twisted pipe cleaners over to form a "P". Repeat with the remaining pipe cleaners.
- Attach the wings- glue these on to the upper half of the backside of the bug so that the circles are facing front.
- The antennes should also be attached to the upper backside so that the "p's" are back to back facing outward.
- For the face, use a black marker to draw a mouth on the center two sticks. Then use a pink marker to draw the circles for the cheeks.
- Lastly, glue on the wiggly eyes about a quarter way down from the top and side by side on the two center sticks.