Make an adorable handprint ice cream from construction paper with this easy Summer craft idea. This is a fun keepsake craft and looks cute hanging on the wall or fridge to brighten up your home.
There are lots of ways you can get creative with the toppings!
You might also like our 3D Paper Ice Cream craft
Who doesn’t love ice cream? The handprint paper version isn’t quite as sweet but it’s almost as good.
Make your ice cream any flavour you like by using construction paper in that colour. Can’t decide? Turn it into a multi-scoop by tracing adding more handprints in different colours!
The example ice cream is topped with flavoured ice cream syrup, sprinkles and a cherry, but kids can get creative and change this up.
Extra topping ideas:
- To add choc chips, use hole punch circles from brown paper cut in halves
- Draw raspberry ripples with coloured dark pink marker
- Make a wafer by cutting orange or brown construction paper into a triangle and patterning it with marker crosshatches
- Use a larger circle hole punch to create multi-coloured construction paper smarties
- Replace the cherry shape with a strawberry
You get the picture.
Let’s get started on the craft…
How to make a Handprint Ice Creams
You will need:
- Coloured construction paper
- Pencil
- Glue stick or craft glue
- Scissors
- Markers
- The template (optional)
Get the template
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How to
Print the template out and cut out the shapes.
Trace the cone shape onto light brown or orange, the topping onto a colour of your choice, the cherry onto red and the stem to green (or just snip a rectangle shape from green). Cut sprinkle-sized rectangles from a rainbow of colours.
Lay hand (the cone has been designed to work with a child-size hand) over construction paper in the colour you want your ice cream to be. Trace around it with a pencil.
Cut the shapes out.
Draw a crosshatch pattern onto the cone with marker in a shade darker than the paper.
Attach the stem cutout on the top side of the cherry cutout. Glue the topping to the palm of the handprint.
Use matching sharpiesmarkers to draw outlines on the ice cream (handprint).
Glue the toppings in place.
Glue the handprint ice cream to the cone.
Bonapetit!
More Summer Treat-themed crafts
- Make an ice cream pom pom ball and cup game
- Use sponges to create your own mini sponge cakes for pretend play
- Check out our printable 3D Ice Cream craft
