Stick Man Activity Ideas

Stick Man by Julia Donaldson is one of my favourite children’s books. I think partly because it reminds me of Autumn and Christmas, which are my favourite times of the year.

Stick Man has inspired a lot of fun activities in our house recently. We hope you like them, and do let us know if you have any we haven’t thought of.

How to make a Stick Man

Making a Stick Man is a great opportunity to test different materials to see which makes the best model.

This example is made using glu-dots to hold the sticks together, they were surprisingly strong and allowed a lot of movement of limbs.

We also tested elastic bands, string and normal glue. Glu-dots seemed to work the best.

Can you give your Stick Man some leaf hair or some clothes?

Or, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to find the perfect Stickman stick like ours!

Red Ted Art also has some brilliant and beautifully decorated stick people.

We love this gorgeous Stick Man craft from Lalymom too!

More Stick Man Crafts

These Stick Man sun catchers from Rainy Day Mum are super cute.

Or, try some of these fun stick crafts. We especially like the peg leaf people.

Tree themed activity ideas

Do you know how to find out how old a tree is? Or how tall a tree is?

Make a map of the forest

Can you make a map for Stick Man showing all his adventures like this one we made for Little Red Riding Hood.

How about a game of pooh sticks? We sometimes decorate our sticks with leaves so we can tell the difference between them

Raft making is another fantastic stick activity. Once you’ve made the raft, find somewhere to test it and investigate to discover how much weight it can hold without breaking!