Popsicle Stick Photo Frames

I had the best time hanging out with Naya and Noah yesterday making popsicle stick frames. 

I just so happen to have my Instax camera on hand so we decide to have a bit of a photo shoot after their lunch.

One we were done wainting FOREVER for the pictures to develop ;) we decided to get crafting. We choose the popsicle sticks we wanted to use without exactly having an a true intention of how things would turn out other than making some sort of picture frame. Below is the list of materials we had on hand to use.

Materials 

Popsicle sticks + Wood Glue + Yarn+ Cardstock Paper + Scissors+ Watercolors/Crayons 

We started out with painting and coloring our popsicle sticks. Some of use used thin ones and some used the tick ones; both look great but the thicker ones are a little easier to hold on to while they paint or color them. 

Using either watercolors or crayons works out well; it really is just dependent on your preference. 

After coloring the sticks we folded the sheet of card stock in half 4 times and cutting it ending up with a rectangle. I used that as brace to hold the popsicle sticks together in the back. 

We arranged the sticks in the order we liked them and cut off the excess paper that was left from the back. At the bottom of the frame we added wooden letters.

On my frame I decide to use some yard to add a cool decorative element to it. Just had to make sure to hold it down for a while; kind of a long while. If you have a hard time having everything glued down properly use a heavy object like a book to add weight to it evenly. give it about 15 minutes to adhere properly. 

In order to make the popsicle stick frame stand up we created these little boxes out of two pieces of  rectangle shaped cardstock that are the same size, made small folds at the ends and glued them together. (Pictured Below)

This is what the back looks like once its standing. 

Here are the finished projects.

Super cute, right?!

I decided to add string to mine so that they had the option to hang one of these if they wanted to, just to change it up. I think both of them look pretty cool. 

Let me know what you think and if you decide to create a similar project I would love to see what you guys create.

-Vee