This was originally posted on the Ice Cream Journal back in September of last year, but we’re so amazed by this creation that we had to post it again. It also got us thinking about all sorts of things one could build out of empty Turkey Hill ice cream containers!
Remember when you were in the first grade and you made really neat things out of popsicle and ice cream sticks? Of course you do. There was the popsicle stick box. The popsicle stick house. And, of course, the popsicle stick picture frame. We’re sure mom still has that thing laying around somewhere.
An Ice Cream Journal reader forwarded us this story about a guy who took that art to whole new level by building a fully-operational replica of a Viking ship out of ice cream sticks…15 MILLION ice cream sticks to be exact. That’s a picture of his amazing creation on the right. Something tells us it’s not held together with Elmer’s glue and paste.
The builder, Robert McDonald, was helped by his own son and 5,000 other kids. Said McDonald, “If you can dream it, you can do it. I want to teach children that anything is possible.” Hard to argue with that!
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