Colorific Popstix are available in plain or multi colours – naturally our preference is for the colours 
because it doesn’t matter really what you are making, learning to let go of conventional colouring is a great bonus when you only have vibrant colours to choose from!
There are the obvious activities of picture frames and flags, so here are a few more popsticks suggestions to get you
inspired…
They make great bodies – think laterally and look around for embellishments – here is a list of bodied creatures you can make:
- Butterfly – use tissue or tinsel for wings and stems for legs and antennas.
- Dragon fly (as above)
- Snake – glue several end to end at jaunty angles and decorate.
- Caterpillar – use stems wrapped around for lots of legs and sandwich another popstick on top.
- People – 2 popsticks side by side for the body, 1 for each leg and half for each arm. Head can be anything – paper, pom pom etc.
- People – popsticks for body and head (draw on face, hair & clothes), stems for arms and legs.
- Giraffe – how good is one of those popsticks as a neck! You can use a Polystyrene Bell as a body and stems or half popstix for legs (they push into the foam nicely). Paint and embellish.
- Bird – cover in feathers and use stems for legs.
- Bookmarks – either glue some tiny moving eyes on them, decorate and leave it as it is. An alternative is to
use 2 popsticks and secure with an elastic band around the top to keep them firmly together. You place the
popsticks over the page – one in front and one behind – that you wish to mark. Use feathers, bright
cellophane or wool to decorate the top part that sticks out of the book.
- Great decoration idea to create stars with 10 popsticks glued at each corner to create a 5 pointed star. Now
paint, decorate and embellish! Colorific Glitter Stars are great for this, also think about wrapping
the stars with Tinsel Stems in jaunty ways and gluing a Pom Pom randomly on the ends
of the stems.
- Note holder (can be a bit trickier and messier!), uses 10 popsticks. Place 3 popsticks side by side and glue
together. Repeat with another 3 and again with just 2. Cut 2 popsticks in half and glue 2 together as with the
sides above. Now place the 2 full popsticks on the bottom for the base – each of the sets of 3 are the sides
and need to be glued to the base ~ you should have a U shape. The halves are for the sides – glue in
place, allow to dry and decorate. You can make this as large as you like. TIP: you could use a cardboard
box as a base and glue the popsticks on that structure – easier for younger children.
- A bridge….set a challenge for the class, loads of popsticks, glue, tape and blutack. Set them off in groups to
create a bridge structure capable of supporting an item of your choice. Great fun!
- Magic wand ~ don’t laugh! Rather than the traditional Harry Potter version make this a wand of positivity!
Whenever students are feeling negative or having difficulty, have them get out their wand and tell them
they are not allowed to have a negative thought whilst they hold their wand, show them how they can turn
their thinking around by choosing a different thought. The wand is simply a physical symbol of how to do
this. Make them brightly coloured and embellished gorgeously to inspire fun and happy thoughts.
Popsticks can be used to cover almost anything, they can be glued, cut, drawn on, painted, they are environmentally
friendly and make great stabilizers for other projects.
Enjoy, and keep your popstix well stocked.