Carrot Popsicle Stick Craft

If you need a carrot popsicle stick craft that’s quick, cute, and doesn’t require 47 steps and a prayer, this is the one. It’s bright, sturdy, and has that satisfying “ohhh it actually looks like a carrot” moment at the end.

Materials for This Carrot Popsicle Stick Craft

This one is a simple supply list, which is honestly my favorite kind of list. Bonus: it’s mostly stuff you probably already have floating around in your craft stash.

Wooden craft sticks (3 total)
Orange acrylic paint
Paintbrush
Green cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue stick
Hot glue gun + glue sticks (adult use)
Black marker

Alright, let’s turn those plain craft sticks into a tiny carrot situation.

Carrot Popsicle Stick Craft Step-by-Step

This craft comes together fast once the paint dries. If your kids are the “can’t wait” type, you can paint the sticks ahead of time and jump straight into building.

Step 1: Gather your supplies

Lay out the craft sticks, orange paint, paintbrush, green paper, scissors, glue, and black marker.

Overhead view of craft supplies on a white background including three natural wooden craft sticks, a tube of orange acrylic paint, child-safe scissors, a glue stick, two clear glue sticks, and a black marker, arranged neatly beside a piece of bright green cardstock.

Step 2: Paint the craft sticks orange

Paint two full-size craft sticks orange and paint one shorter cut piece orange as well. Set them aside to dry.

Two full-length wooden craft sticks and one shorter cut piece painted orange, placed horizontally on a white background next to a tube of orange acrylic paint.

Step 3: Glue the sticks into a triangle

Arrange the two long painted sticks into a triangle shape with the pointed ends meeting at the bottom. Glue the shorter painted piece across the top to connect them.

Three orange-painted craft sticks glued together to form a triangular shape resembling a carrot outline, placed on a white background beside two clear glue sticks.

Step 4: Cut the green carrot top

Cut a trapezoid shape from green paper. Then cut thin slits along one side to create the leafy top.

A pair of child scissors next to a trapezoid-shaped piece of bright green cardstock on a white background.

Step 5: Attach the green top

Glue the green paper to the back of the carrot shape so the strips stick up above the top.

Step 6: Add carrot details with a marker

Use the black marker to draw short horizontal lines and small marks across the orange sticks.

A triangular carrot shape made from orange-painted craft sticks with black marker lines drawn across the sticks, placed next to a glue stick and a black marker on a white background.

Step 7: Let it dry

Set the craft aside so the glue fully sets before moving it around.

Then admire your tiny wooden vegetable like it’s a masterpiece, because it kind of is.

A carrot craft made from orange-painted craft sticks with a layered green paper top cut into thin strips, arranged on a white background.

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