Glue each of the bottoms to adjacent corners of one side of the top base.
How to build popsicle stick tower. Video of the day step 1. Lay two sticks vertically side by side across the two horizontal sticks to get the proper spacing. Take one of the groups of four sticks and glue them together to form a square. Notice the cross brace is on the underneath side of this square.
There are overs and unders in this building process or insides and outsides in the stack. This is a stir stick tower that i made for a school project. Glue the tops together. When first begin building your popsicle stick tower start with gluing several popsicle sticks.
Lay two sticks down flat and. Please try again later. Separate the popsicle sticks into 12 groups of four and one group of two the last two sticks will go on the top. Hold two of the four smaller craft sticks that have no rounded ends so that the tops are together and the bottoms opened about as wide as the top base.
The basic building unit. It weighs 133 grams is 9 inches tall. Triangles t beams and i beams are what i think gave it strength. To align the sticks together use a straight edge such as a block of wood or a brick.
This popsicle stick tower was constructed for a high school physics class project. Glue another set of four sticks. At school we didn t have enough weights to break it. Each glued joint is one popsicle stick width from the far tip of a stick.