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Celebrate Grandparents Day with a Handmade Popsicle Stick Magnet Picture Frames

Celebrate Grandparents Day with handmade Popsicle stick Magnet Picture Frames! Grandparents Day is the first Sunday, in September, after Labor Day. You still have plenty of time to help your kids make this fun and creative hanging picture frame, that the “grands” will cherish!

Materials Needed:

Instructions:

1. Begin by gluing two Popsicle stick frames. Let dry. We chose to use painted Popsicle sticks but unfinished Popsicle sticks will work, too. Or you can paint your own Popsicle sticks and make it really colorful!

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

2. Cut out coordinating scrapbooking paper and tape it onto the back of the frames.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

3. Add little accents like shells and buttons to the side of the frame. Use large pop-up glue dots or tacky glue to hold it all in place.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

4. Cut a long piece of ribbon, dovetail the end and tape to the back of the frames. To dovetail a ribbon fold it in half and cut it at a 45 degree angle.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

5. Attach two long pieces of adhesive backed magnets to the back of the first frame.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

6. To make the bow for the frames: Cut a 24” piece of Bowdabra Bow Wire and fold it in half. Lay it into the Mini Bowdabra. You’ll have a loop at one end and two loose pieces at the opposite end.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

7. Lay your ribbon into the Mini Bowdabra. Decide how big you want your loops. To make your first loop, fold the ribbon and press into the Mini Bowdabra.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

8. Continue folding the ribbon back and forth until you have created as many loops as you desire.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

9. Scrunch ribbon down with the Mini Bowdabra Wand.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

10. While the bow is still in the Mini Bowdabra, thread the two loose e
nds of the Bowdabra Bow Wire through the loop at the other end.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

11. Pull the Bowdabra Bow Wire tightly while the bow is still in the Mini Bowdabra.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

12. Gently pull the bow out of the Mini Bowdabra. Separate the two loose ends of the Bowdabra Bow Wire and bring them around to the back of the bow. To tie off the bow, pinch the Bowdabra Bow Wire securely against the bow. Twist the bow 4 to 6 times in a clockwise direction.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

13. Fluff your bow and use pop-up glue dots to attach it to the center of the ribbon. Spiral the remaining Bowdabra Bow Wire with a pencil for fun ringlets.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

 

14. Glue pictures into the center of the frames. Your Popsicle stick picture frame is complete and ready to be given as a gift this Grandparents Day.

Popsicle Stick Picture Frames

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