Perfect Ice Cube Popsicles! bite size and no drips

How to make mini popsicles that are just the right size. Plus they cost almost nothing and produce almost no garbage.

But first a bite-size story:
I wanted a popsicle. I didn't have a popsicle mold. Necessity is the mother of invention. So I asked my mother if we had any small molds like a bunch of shot glasses that I could use to freeze small cubes of ice. She said "you mean like an ice cube tray"? "Um, yes, exactly like an ice cube tray" replied I. So a bit more scrounging and I had some bamboo shish kabob sticks and a piece of paper. And the rest is history.
***Update*** There is another version of this here. It uses aluminum foil instead of paper.
Let's get started...

Step 1 Materials

You need
-Maybe some scissors
-1 ice cube tray
-several sticks, toothpicks would work but I used bamboo shish kabob cut into thirds
-1 sheet of paper appropriate to your ice cube tray (read on and this will make sense)
-juice
-a whole lotta love, neeeeerrrrr

Comments

[CatTrampoline]

Very nice job! An excellent example of "Do the best you can with what you have" philosophy.

I loved making popsicles when I was a kid, and with my son when he was younger. You can even get fancy and make rainbow pops by pouring different flavors and freezeing between pours, or make the chocolate-covered by dipping the completed pops in ice cream candy shell stuff.

[n0ukf]

@CatTrampoline the paper box makes it hard to pour the later flavors in.

[geppetto1955]

If you Staple the box-shaped paper (Step 3), how do you remove the mini popsicles?

[snotty]

Lift the paper off the top.

[Keithr606]

This one should not be a finalist. She didn't make anything from popsicle sticks. She says they where bamboo shish kabob sticks.
There are a lot more out there that do use popsicle sticks.

[TreyDolder]

I have done this since my kindergarten science experiment... thanks for the effort though!

[lemonie]

Didn't you take any photographs of this?

L

[snotty]

I should have taken pictures but it was more important to me to get this instructable written and uploaded before I got busy with other things. Maybe I'll add some later but I have to do my chemistry homework now :)