DIY Popsicle Stick Reindeer Ornament Craft

These DIY popsicle stick reindeer ornament craft are such a fun Christmas craft to make with kids! Try this cute ornament craft with your family this holiday season.

Reindeer Christmas ornament craft

Are you all ready for Santa to come? We have decked the halls, finished our holiday shopping, and now, we can firmly say that we are ready for Christmas! While we wait and watch the Santa tracker, we decided to get crafty for the holidays and came up with this fun reindeer ornament craft.

Homemade reindeer ornament craft

We love making different Christmas crafts and this fun reindeer popsicle stick ornament is our latest. We used a few materials that we already had at home – popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, glue, googly eyes, etc. and put them all together to make this cute little Rudolph! Learn how to make this kids reindeer ornaments craft, it is pretty easy and so much fun.

DIY popsicle stick reindeer ornaments

Here’s how to make a craft stick reindeer ornament. All you need are a few different craft materials, such as wooden craft sticks, pom poms, pipe cleaners, and more. If your kids enjoy making arts and crafts for the holidays, this reindeer ornaments DIY looks so cute hanging on the Christmas tree!

Materials needed for this Christmas reindeer craft:

popsicle sticks (4 per reindeer)
glue (hot glue for adults, school glue for the kids)
ribbon
brown pipe cleaners (1 per reindeer)
googly eyes (2 per reindeer)
red pom pom puffs (1 per reindeer)
scissors

How to make DIY reindeer ornaments with popsicle sticks

Step 1: Connect the popsicle sticks, add the hanger

Place 3 popsicle sticks evenly onto your surface. Cut the 4th popsicle stick into 4-5 pieces, add glue, and glue down the pieces horizontally onto the back of the 3 sticks to attach.

First, glue on the bottom and middle pieces. Then, cut a piece of ribbon to twice your desired hanging length and glue the ends together to the top section into a loop, see the image below.

Finally, to cover the ends of the ribbon, glue the last small stick piece over the top of the ribbon.

If adults are doing the gluing, a hot glue gun works best and dries the fastest. Otherwise, if the kids are using school glue, they will need to allow the popsicle stick ornament to dry for 5 minutes or so.

Step 2: Add the pipe cleaner reindeer antlers

Now, cut a standard pipe cleaner in half and thread it around the middle popsicle stick. Ensure the ends are the same length, twist them together tightly around the back of the ornament, and press them upward to create the antlers.

Step 3: Add the reindeer ornament face

Next, you will create the reindeer face. Add two dots of glue for the eyes, and another dot of glue in the middle for the red nose. Let the glue sit and dry.

Now hang your DIY popsicle stick reindeer ornament and admire! We love the way these look on our tree, they match our existing decor and we feel proud to have made our popsicle stick Christmas ornaments.

Enjoy our reindeer popsicle stick craft!

Making a homemade ornament is so much fun at Christmas time. This was such a fun and simple holiday activity, and we love to see our creation hanging on the Christmas tree.

If you like this idea, take a look at our handprint reindeer Christmas cards. Happy holidays, we really hope you have a great holiday and that you enjoy this reindeer craft!

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