If you don’t want to use hot glue, a regular bottle of craft glue will work. Always practice caution when using a hot glue gun as it can burn you.
Hot glue can be hard to remove from surfaces so take extra precaution. Hot glue will also spill out of the gun sometimes, so always set it over the covered surface. You can put a silicone mat underneath the gun. [1] X Research source
If you are using a glue gun, plug it in and turn it on. Let it heat up. Then squeeze the trigger to release the glue onto the sticks. [2] X Research source These squares will become the walls of the house.
Be sure that you place the sticks tight together so that there are no gaps in the wall. You may not have room for an entire stick when you get to the the end, so use the utility knife to trim a stick down to fit in the final spot.
This basic roof uses just two triangles as the trusses, but you can make a more stable roof by making a third triangle, which would go between the two main ones in the roof.
Be gentle as you lay each stick so that you don’t pull any of the previous ones apart from the triangles.
Closing the roof off completely will add realism to your Popsicle stick house as this is how real houses are constructed.
Either center the window or you can cut it off to the side if you want to. To make further adornments to the house, you could use the pieces you just cut from the window to create shutters on the sides or a frame around the window.
You can glue a piece of paper the size of the door opening on the edge of the opening to act as an actual door. Bend the paper along the edge that you glue to simulate the door swinging open and closed.
Attach the remaining two walls one at a time to complete the basic structure of the house.
