Explanation

The sun gives off white light which is made up of every color in the rainbow. Those colors are organized from highest to shortest wavelength, making blue and violet the colors with the shortest wavelength. The shorter the wavelength of the light, the more it is scattered as it interacts with the atmosphere. Because blue has such a short wavelength, it is scattered about ten times more than red light. Now you may ask why it is that the sky isn’t violet. The answer is that the sun gives much more blue light than violet light, so you can’t see it. Similarly, the hot glue stick end closest to your flashlight should be a whitish-blue color.

The reason why the sky is red during the sunset is because light takes a longer path through the atmosphere when it is on the horizon than when it is directly overhead. By that time it gets to your eyes, most of the light is scattered out and you could see the colors with higher wavelengths. This is why the color of the glue sticks gets more yellow the further it goes.