We all love ice cream, but have you thought about making an ice cream cone craft with your little ones? While nothing beats the real thing, this project will have your kids screaming for more. For this issue, our 5-year-old maker, Amber, along with her art teacher Zhang Qi from Yosemite Art Center, gave an impressive demonstration of how to make your own fun ice cream cone.
All the materials are easy to get, but be careful while painting. During the painting, Amber asked Zhang Qi “will my hands get messy?” Zhang Qi said yes, and suggests kids who make this craft should wear an apron or an old T-shirt.
Note: The project takes about one hour to finish. Parental supervision is also required while cutting the felt and big paper.
Materials You’ll Need
Acrylic paint
2 pencils and one pen
Paper cup
Glue
Scissors
5-6 thick colored felts
A sheet of card
A round painting board
Instructions
1. According to the scale of the round painting board, draw an irregular ice cream shape on the card and use scissors to cut it.
2. Draw the shape of the cone on the felt. The cone needs to match the size and proportion of the ice cream.Then cut out the felt and glue it on the ice cream as the ice cream’s hat.
3. Cut some dark felt strips. Create the lattice pattern and glue them on the cone.
4. Mix different colored paint in the cups. You can use your imagination to create the colors of the ice cream’s body.
5. Pour the colors onto the ice cream-shaped card, and move around to make it flow evenly on the card board to the color you like. Then set aside to dry. (Option 2: You can also put the cup with colors upside down on the ice cream)
6. Paint the round painting board in a single color evenly as the background and wait for it to dry.
7. When all the paint has completely dried, decorate the ice cream’s face with eyes and mouth. You can create its face in your own style.
8. Glue the ice cream with its cone hat onto the background board and decorate as you like, such as adding droplets of “sweat” on the ice cream.
Photos: Uni You
This article appeared in the beijingkids September 2019 Family Foodies issue
