DLTK's Crafts for Kids
DIY Hexagon Wall Shelf
contributed by Kaitlyn Guenther
For several months I have been looking at those fancy, rustic-looking wall shelves. Unfortunately, I could never bring myself to buy them because they are well out of my price range. Luckily for me I realized that I could make them myself and I didn't even need a hammer!
This craft is incredibly easy and looks incredible afterwards. So sit down for an therapeutic afternoon of gluing popsicle sticks together and get excited for an awesome new decoration!
Materials:
- popsicle sticks,
- glue (hot glue is sturdier and faster but you can also use white glue especially if you are working with younger kids),
- Optional: print and paper,
- Optional: varnish and paint brush
Instructions:
Align your first layer of popsicle sticks into a hexagon shape (if you want an extra hand you an print off the hexagon template below). - In order to keep the shelf together you need to connect the popsicle sticks. If the edges are labelled A, B, C, D, E, F in a circle, then lay the popsicles for edges A, C, and E flat on the paper and lay the popsicle for edges B, D, and F on top so that the points overlap.
Stack popsicle sticks like this by gluing the corners as you go. I used hot glue because it is faster and dries more secure, but white glue would also work and is safer for younger children.
Continue to stack the popsicle sticks until you reach the desired depth of the shelf. I made my shelves 15 popsicle sticks deep on each side.- Then hang them on the wall. Making these shelves out of popsicle sticks makes them quite light so I was able to use wall stickers to hang them up.
Templates:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
Hexagon Template B&W
Print friendly version of these instructions
