This is a super fun and colorful art craft for the kids to do this summer. It takes a bit of prep, but after that the execution is very easy. And the final results are downright adorable!
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Here’s what you’ll need:
Cardboard + scissors
Black fine tip Sharpie
Tempera paint (I used neon colors
Colored paper
Circle
How to make your cone:
1. Cut out an ice-cream cone from your cardboard. I don’t have a template because it needs to be really big…bigger than printer paper. But drawing a cone is easy. It’s an upside down triangle and then two circles on top. You can do it! (Tip: draw your cone on the backside of the cardboard box).
2. Cut out little pieces of colored paper that will be the sprinkles. Punch out some circles or other shapes, like hearts or stars, that will be the candy. I used old art to cut the candy pieces.
3. Mix some sherberty paint colors. And mint. Chocolate was the kids’ fave flavor, but we all decided that brown paint would be boring on brown cardboard. They actually helped me choose and name the colors which was an extra fun activity.
4. Show them on a separate piece of paper what diagonal lines look like on a cone. Then give them each a black sharpie and let them do the lines, showing them how to draw one line across the top of the cone, then diagonal lines in one direction and then the other. They love this part because it seems so grown-up to use a sharpie, and it instantly looks like a cone!
5. Now it’s time to paint. Anything goes. I even had a three-year old paint right over her cone. She wanted it pink. Then another one copied her (trends start fast with little ones). It’s all good!
6. Next take out the glitter glue and let them glue on their sprinkles and decoration. You could even bring out pom-poms
This project was so successful, I cut out cardboard popsicles for the next day. I’ll share those some other time, they are really cute, too.
Have fun!
xo, Bar
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These are absolutely delightful! Wow. So summer.
thank you danielle! and i just oohhed and aahhed over your website. just beautiful! congrats on one year! xx bar
of the chart coolness. doing this doing this doing this.
thanks meri…hope you do!! xx bar
Lol aha!! Great minds think alike! We went to work on these over the weekend! But now, you’ve raised the “Bar” LOL –& I wanna do ’em again! 😀 So Bright
would love to see yours jeanine!!
Again, what and how can I hang these on a bedroom wall, thanks a bunch!!
hi yesi…good question! i hung our cones with rolled tape on the pack and just stuck it to the wall. but you could also punch two little holes at the top of the cone, put a string through and then tape the string to the wall. my hardware store here in connecticut sells little plastic hooks that stick to the wall, they are made by 3M. or you could hammer a small nail into the wall if you have a string on your cone. i hope this helps! xo, bar
I set up this, “sweet” project for my three year old and she had a blast making it. She said she was making it for me and asked which flavors I wanted. I told her cotton candy and rainbow sherbert. She used pom poms and beads for sprinkles as well. It came out so colorful! .Thank you for sharing such wonderful art projects to do with kids.
thank you Jyll! Would love to see your finished cones. are you in instagram? if so, just tag me @artbarblog. xo, Bar