Let’s make a yellow school bus frame for your back to school first day pictures! This popsicle stick yellow school bus craft works great for kids of all ages and can be made at home or in the classroom. This photo frame craft is great whether you’re making it at home or in the classroom!

DIY School Bus Picture Frames
Don’t leave your back to school pictures to stay on your phone. Make this cute craft sticks schoolbus photo frame to display them. Make a popsicle stick school bus picture frame for each school year.
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Making a school bus frame out of popsicle sticks is a project filled with fun for kids and it helps with hand-eye coordination by encouraging them to work on creating straight lines and arranging the craft sticks properly.
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How to Make a Yellow School Bus Frame with Popsicle Sticks

Supplies Needed for School Bus Craft
- 10 large wooden craft sticks
- Craft paint: yellow, black, and grey
- Red card stock
- Small clothespin
- Permanent Marker
- Scissors
- Tacky glue
- Clear tape
- Magnets or string, ribbon or twine to hang the frame
Directions to Make School Bus Picture Frames

Step 1
Paint seven of your craft sticks yellow, two black, and one grey with the craft paint.
Allow to fully dry.
Step 2
Line up five yellow craft sticks horizontally.
Coat the back of the black craft sticks in glue and press vertically on top of the yellow craft sticks — one on each side to create the rails of the bus. Leave a gap for one craft stick on top and two at the bottom for other parts of the school bus.

Step 3
Glue a single yellow craft stick to the top of the bus horizontally for the top of the bus.

Step 4
Glue another yellow craft stick and a grey craft stick horizontally at the bottom for the bottom of the bus to mimic the bumper of the school buses.
Step 5
Cut two circles from the red card stock and glue those down to create tail lights for the bus.
Step 6
Add a clothespin below the top craft stick positioned at the center using glue.
Allow it to dry.
You are almost done.

Step 7
Use clear tape and cover the top and the bottom craft stick. Do this so that you can write your kid’s grade and year and wipe it away to change it every school year. (This is an optional step)
I used a permanent marker to write the grade and an alcohol wipe or drop of rubbing alcohol in a paper towel to wipe off in case of any mistake or changes you want to make.
Attach your kids’ first day back to school picture in this simple DIY school bus pictures frame that you made and display it with joy.

Your Finished school bus photo frame is ready to display!
Glue a piece of twine folded at the back of the first craft stick to hang it or attach magnets using a strong glue like E6000 to display it on the fridge.
This school bus picture frame is best suited for wallet-size pictures.

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Popsicle Stick School Bus Picture Frame

Make this cute yellow school bus picture frame from popsicle sticks or craft sticks. It is the perfect back to school craft to display that first day of school picture. Customize it with grade, school year, school name, student name or anything that works best for you!
Materials
- 10 large wooden craft sticks
- Craft paint: yellow, black, and grey
- Red card stock
- Small clothespin
- Magnets or string, ribbon or twine to hang the frame
Tools
- Permanent Marker
- Scissors
- Tacky glue
- Clear tape
Instructions
- Paint 7 crafts sticks yellow, 2 black and one grey with craft paint & allow to dry.
- Line up 5 yellow craft sticks horizontally. Coat the back of the black popsicle sticks with glue and push vertically across the 5 yellow to create the bus rails.
- Glue a single yellow craft stick across the top.
- Glue another yellow craft stick and the grey craft stick across the bottom to make a bus bumper.
- Add two circles cut from red card stock as tail lights.
- Add a yellow painted tiny clothes pin to hold the photo.
- Add grade, year, name, etc. onto clear tape with permanent marker allowing you to change it each year or write directly on the popsicle sticks.
- Hang with magnets or twine.
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