Check out this fun and simple camping themed craft! Perfect for arts and crafts time at camp OR as a creative activity at home, this popsicle stick tent craft is a great choice. The tents would make great accessories for small dolls, too! Follow our tutorial below to make your own tents.
Camping Tent Craft
I just love how this DIY craft turned out and I am excited to type out this tutorial for you. We made a couple different tent crafts using wooden craft sticks and popsicle sticks. They would be a perfect summer boredom buster or a wonderful camping themed activity at school or camp. Popsicle stick crafts are a great choice for any age crafter.
Kids can construct a popsicle stick tent with minimal supplies. These tents would look great on a shelf and can be played with as well. They would make the perfect props to use with small dolls and action figures.
Turn the tents into a little campsite with a tealight candle as the campfire. (We used a tealight placed just inside the tent opening to give the tent a soft glow.)
Popsicle Stick Tent Craft Supplies
Gather up the following supplies to make some tents of your own:
- Construction paper (we used light blue and dark blue)
- Popsicle sticks (larger craft sticks for the bigger tent and smaller popsicle sticks for the small tent)
- Double-sided tape
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun
Let’s make some tents!
Popsicle Stick Tent Tutorial
Follow the steps below to make your own tent crafts.
1. The first step is to assemble a popsicle stick design into the tent frame. Take 2 popsicle sticks and use the hot glue gun to glue them as pictured below. Repeat this step with another pair of popsicle sticks.
2. Take 3 more popsicle sticks and use scissors to cut the rounded ends off of each one.
3. Glue all of the sticks together to create a frame for your tent. The ends of the sticks that you trimmed will be glued to the first 2 pairs of sticks that you glued together. Use the picture below as a guide.
4. After assembling the frame, you can see the triangular shape. Next it’s time to make the tent covering! Measure a rectangle-sized piece of construction paper to fit over the top of your tent as the roof.
5 Drape the paper over the frame of your tent and use the double-sided tape to secure the paper to the popsicle sticks.
Repeat the process for any additional popsicle stick tents you want to make! You could definitely make a whole bunch of tents and set up a whole campsite with sweet little tents.
That’s it!
They are so adorable!
One additional adornment you could add if you would like, would be to decorate the exterior popsicle sticks with a black marker or colorful markers. They would look neat with swirls, shapes, lines or symbols draw on them! Glitter glue would also be a creative medium to use to add embellishments to the sticks.
I love how these tents turned out and I am thrilled to add it to the craft ideas on this site. Take a look through our other DIY posts for more easy crafts. More fun projects coming soon!
These tents will work well for a fun boredom buster while you chat about a previous or upcoming family camping adventure.
Let us know if you end up giving this craft a try! Tell us how it turned out for you. If you post a picture of your tent popsicle stick crafts on social media, feel free to tag us. We would love to see how they turned out!
