Handmade Mini Adjustable Easel Using Popsicle Sticks

Hello, how are you? Last month I was planning a lot of craft DIY I wanted to make, but I caught a fever and colds by just staying at home like why LOL.

One thing I am curious about doing is the mini easel that I am craving to do, but I never have time or energy to do it.

One reason is that I like a specific design or how it works, so it took me a lot of time looking for inspiration online, and then I saw this one that is foldable like the big easel I own, but I wanted to make it a mini version, so yeah, it took me the whole day to perfect it.

I need to find how this and that, and thanks to me, it only took me a short time to figure it out.

Most of the mini easels that are made with popsicles I saw online have the back part that is not foldable, so it is so inconsistent to use it if I don’t want to use it anymore. I'm not just gonna put it away like that, so I wanted the folded version so that I can easily put it away and use it again anytime.

I like to do the complicated part first, so I mark the 4cm width of the popsicle stick I want to cut.

And then I cut it using X acto Knife, be careful because I cut my finger doing it LOL. This is what it looks like.

And using the leftover of the first popsicle, I cut about 7 cm wide of the popsicles just like I did in the photo.

And then I grab two popsicle sticks and glue them together, set them aside while drying to use them for later.

To make the adjustable leg, I grab 3 popsicle sticks and a pin, and then I mark the middle where I put a hole in it.

Using the tip of the X-Acto knife, I twisted it carefully until it poked through the other side of the stick, and then I did it to the other two sticks.

I stacked the three together, and then I added glue to the top of the pin just to secure it and put the pin through it.

Then I cut the lower part about half a centimeter.

Time to Assemble:

I grab the first stick I cut earlier and put glue on each side of it.

Then I lay two popsicle sticks, leaving 2 centimeters space between them, and then glue them on the top of the two flat stick which serve as the front legs. Let the glue dry first.

After that, I flipped the sticks back, and then I added glue to each side of the second stick I had cut earlier. I glued it about 4 cm below the upper part that I had glued earlier. Let it dry.

I flip it back and forth, and then I grab one popsicle stick. I put glue on the front legs, 9 cm from the upper part of the stick. It is easier if you have a cutting mat, which serves as my ruler because of its gridlines and measurements.

Then I grab the two popsicles I glued together earlier, and I just glue them below the popsicle I glued earlier.

For the final part, I flipped the sticks back facing, and then I added glue in the middle of the upper stick and the middle stick, and then I grabbed the adjustable sticks I made earlier and glued them carefully, and let them dry completely before using.

Walaaahh! Now I have a mini easel. This is the back and the front.

I did not expect to look this cute.

Now I have an easel for the portrait painting of Mochi, which I painted last year. I made an extra one for the one I sketched earlier for the future painting I am going to paint.

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