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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects > Crafts with Milk Cartons >How to Make Milk Carton Totem Poles
A totem pole or post is a tall carved and painted post or pillar with totemic symbols which certain Indian tribes set up before their houses. To make a small totem pole which you can set up in front of a play house, you can find the crafts tutorial below.
3 or more ice cream containers
Brass paper fasteners
Scissors
Glue or paste
Paints and brush
Thin cardboard
Pencil
You will need at least three 1/2 pint ice cream containers with covers to make a fair sized totem pole, though you can use four, five or six containers. Either leave the containers and their covers unpainted, or paint each container and its cover the same color, each one a different color, or the container bottoms one color and the covers a contrasting color. (in order to paint waxy ice cream containers you should add some white glue to your paint first). If you paint the containers allow them to dry thoroughly. Paint designs, decorations, symbols or imaginative human or animal faces on the containers.
Let your imagination have free play. If you paint faces on the containers, you may paint decorative head band designs on the rims of the covers, as they will be the
separating designs between the containers when they are assembled.
When all the containers have been decorated, glue them together, one on top of another. You may cut out and decorate, ears and noses from thin cardboard and insert them in small slits made with a scissor at the necessary points. You may use brass paper fasteners to make protruding eyes, and you may glue on a feather headdress around the head of the top figure.
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