Can you print disney characters on paper, stick them on sticks and sell them without disneys approval. Or is this copyright

Copying a protected work of someone else, making a modification to that work, and selling the modified work without permission from the someone else is typically going to be copyright infringement. Within the legal jargon, the work you created is called a 'derivative work'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/derivative_work There are exceptions to the scope of copyright protection (what fun would the law be without exceptions), but nothing you mentioned in your questions calls to mind any exceptions.