You lost me re the glue sticks . Do bear with a non native speaker and explain !
There’s a little machine called a “glue gun.” It heats up and melts “hot-glue sticks,” and you use the resulting stick-um to glue things together.
It was just a stream-of-consciousness moment. On further reflection, I think I gave the sticks to a friend who was having the girls over to do crafts last year.