Nothing says summer like a scoop of delicious, refreshing ice cream! So today we are going to make a super cute ice cream craft that looks almost good enough to eat. You will love that this summer craft includes two kid-favorite techniques in this ice cream craft for preschoolers! Start by making a bubble wrap print to make the cone. Then whip up a batch of our puffy paint ice cream to personalize with your favorite flavor of icecream! This puffy paint craft is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too!

Ice Cream Craft

There so many fun ice cream crafts you can make with your kids this summertime. From paper plate to tissue paper, edible ice cream playdough to ice cream hand art and more – there are lots of cute ice cream crafts for preschoolers! This puffy paint ice cream project is sure to be a hit with your toddlers, preschoolers kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students. You can personalize the bubble wrap craft to make your favorite type of cone and flavor of ice cream too. So let’s make some memories with a fun summer craft for kids!

puffy paint ice cream craft

Kids will have fun making their own flavor with this ice cream puffy paint recipe. All you need to make this fun ice cream craft for kids are a few simple materials including:

• bubble wrap (leftover from your latest Amazon delivery works great)
• brown paint
• scissors
• construction paper – tan for cone and other color of your choice for background
• white elmers glue
• white shaving cream
• food coloring
• sprinkles (optional)

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The first part of this Bubble wrap art project is to make the ice cream cone out of bubble wrap. To do this, you will dip sheet of bubble wrap in brown paint.

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Press on tan paper. Allow the paint to dry and then cut out a cone shape.

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You can make it a triangle on the bottom like a waffle cone or sugar cone or flat at the bottom if you prefer to make a cake cone for your ice cream project.

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Glue the ice cream cone or cones to a piece of paper. This can be white or any color of construction paper you like.

Puffy Paint Craft

Now it’s time to make some non-edible ice cream paint! To make this ice cream puffypaint you will start by mixing equal parts of glue and white shaving cream. Add in food coloring or paint to get the color that represents your flavor (strawberry, chocolate, mint chip, etc) and make scoops of ice cream on top of cone.

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Scoop and smoothe the puffy paint on top of each cone to make a scoop, or double scoop of ice cream! Add some sprinkles if you like. Make your cone or cones different flavors with this simple recipe that can be scaled for one scoop or a whole classroom.

Ice Cream Activities

If you are looking for more ice cream activities to add to your ice cream theme of summer learning, check these out!

• Kids will go nuts over this edible ice cream sand castle summer snack for kids
• AMAZING, Edible ice cream play doh recipe that scoops like ice creaam!
• Ice Cream Themed, Summer Bucket List Ideas
• Color Matching Activity for your Ice Cream Theme
• Simple Ice Cream Coloring Pages pdf
• Fun and EASY How to Make ice cream in a bag science experiment worksheet
• 2 ingredient Gummy Bear Popsicles are so COLORFUL and EASY!
• Try our delicious and EASY How to make homemade ice cream
• TONS of cute Ice Cream Craft Preschool
• EPIC Ice Cream Volcano
• Cute I Spy I spy ice cream
• Ice Cream Handprint Craft for toddler and preschool kids
• Simple Ice Cream craft using washi tape for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners.
• Bubble Wrap and Puffy Paint Ice Cream craft
• Ice Cream Name Craft with free printable template
• Simple, free printable Ice Cream Coloring Pages

Ice Cream Printables

• Work on tracing letter with these free Alphabet ice cream handwriting paper
• Delicious Alphabet Ice Cream alphabet printable Puzzles to help kids practice matching upper and lowercase letters
• Check out these Alphabet Mats for your Ice Cream Theme
• Free printable Alphabet Popsicles matching capital and lowercase letters nad beginning sounds too
• Trace the Letters on the Alphabet Popsicles in this fun letter tracing
• Match the upper and lowercase letter puzzles in this free ice cream game
• Kids will love building their ABCs with these popsicle stick letters free template
• Ice Cream Compound Word Puzzles or this other set of ice cream compound words
• Practice adding Ice Cream scoop endings to words with this word endings worksheets and activity
• Printable Digraph Activities for first grade scooping Ice Cream
• Cut and paste sentences ice cream worksheets
• Popsicle Rhyme and Dab Summer Literacy Activity for Pre-k and Kindergarten

Ice Cream Worksheets

• Ice Cream Scoop Pattern Activity
• Make practicing math fun with these fun Ice Cream Worksheets
• Count to 10 free printable ice cream counting printable math craft
• Popsicle counting – free printable number sense puzzles
• Number Popsicles – count to 10 clip cards are a fun
• Scoop pom-pom ice cream and count 1-10 with this ice cream counting printable
• Ice Cream Worksheets Preschool – count and trace to ten
• Count to 20 as you build with your free printable ice cream sundae template
• Ice Cream Math Game Book Based Activity for Kindergartners
• Practice completing patterns with this FUN ice cream pattern printable and activity for kids
• Hands-on Addition with this Ice Cream Math task cards using playdough!
• Free Printable Ice Cream Playdough Mats to learn shapes
• Popsicle Shape Sorting Printable Free

Ice Cream Math

Looking for more fun ways to learn this summer with popsicle themed activities? You will love these free printables:

• Free Printable Ice Cream Math Worksheets
• Practice adding to 1o with this cute Make 10 Ice Cream Cut and Paste Activity
• Popsicle Division Puzzles with printable popsicle puzzles makes practicing math FUN
• Or scoop a sunday with this Place Value Ice Cream for grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students
• Free Printable Place Value Ice Cream Cone