Make a cute turtle companion out of yarn and popsicle sticks

Willy's Wilderness
Sep 24, 2020
1 min read

Updated: Aug 4

When warm weather sticks around into September, you’ll see turtles basking in the sun along rivers. Make this pocket-sized turtle out of yarn and Popsicle sticks to take along while you look for real turtles!

Hexagonal yarn weaving with green, pink, and orange on sticks to create a turtle. Orange and green yarn balls in background on wooden surface. — (Photo by Sara Russell)

Materials

3 Popsicle sticks
Green and black markers
Yarn (2 to 4 different colors)
Scissors

Directions

1. Color the Popsicle sticks green. Don’t forget to color the edges!

2. Stack all three Popsicle sticks on top each other. Tie them together in the middle with yarn.

Hand crafting with green yarn wrapped around a star-shaped frame of wooden sticks. Ball of yarn and orange surface in the background.

3. Fan out the Popsicle sticks, so it looks like a snowflake.

4. Start winding yarn around the center of the Popsicle sticks, so it keeps the snowflake shape. Continue winding yarn around the center until there is a mound in the middle.

Hand holds green popsicle sticks wrapped with yarn in a star shape on a table. Pink, orange, and yellow yarn balls in the background.

5. Start winding yarn around one of the individual Popsicle sticks, then move on to the next Popsicle stick to the right. Wind the yarn around that stick. Continue wrapping the yarn around each of the individual Popsicle sticks, moving in a circle to the right.

Green yarn woven on popsicle sticks forms a hexagon on a brown table. Pink yarn trails off, suggesting ongoing crafting.