How To Build A Popsicle Stick Roof

Carefully flip over the roof and the wall and place them next to each other.

How to build a popsicle stick roof. Mike day everything about concrete recommended for you. Lay out four popsicle sticks in a square with the horizontal sticks on the bottom and the vertical sticks laying on top. Glue two sticks at the sides of the roof to attach it to the wall. Using the measurements from step 5 it s time to build your roof.

Cover the squares with a row of popsicle sticks to make the walls and make 2 triangles out of popsicle sticks for the frame of the roof. You want the sticks to be evenly spaced apart so they make a perfect square. Building the two roof pieces is very similar to building the walls just on a larger scale. To build an easy popsicle house make 4 squares out of popsicle sticks.

Glue a series of vertical popsicle sticks to the roof with the top of the stick secured to the top horizontal piece and the bottom secured to the lower horizontal piece. Make the large roof peak for the larger one you ll want to line 5 popsicle sticks up vertically and attach to each other with a small piece of a popsicle glued across the center horizontally. To hold them together glue the remaining piece to the back. To make the roof look more interesting the roof popsicle sticks will be vertical.

24 popsicle sticks lined up vertically and attached with 2 horizontal popsicle sticks glued on top 2 on bottom and two across the middle. Use the piece on top followed by the then the and finally two full sized sticks. Make sure that the tips of the craft sticks at the top of the roof line up evenly. Step 5 repeat steps three and four to construct the opposite side of the roof.

Using one popsicle stick as a measuring device make sure each stick is one popsicle stick width from the edge. Step 3 to fill in the empty triangular shapes in the front and back of the house hold craft sticks up to the roof one at a time and trace the angle you need to cut off with a pencil.