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[Childcare] 13 Recommended Summer Ice Craft Ideas

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A fun craft that’s perfect for summer! How about making ice cream—the kids’ favorite? Here, we’ll share easy and fun ice cream craft ideas.

There are toy ice creams with beautiful colors and shapes, as well as ones you can enjoy for their textures.

We also recommend playing pretend shop with the ice creams you make.

They can be used for wall displays too, so enjoy making ice creams together while you play.

Make sure to spend time with the children enjoying cool, sweet ice cream! Since the children’s creations are treated as works, we use the term “seisaku” (production/creation) in the text.

[Childcare] Recommended for summer! 13 ice-cream craft ideas (11–20)

[Age 5] Origami Fruit Popsicle

Using origami to make fruit-themed ice pops turns out super cute, so I recommend it.

First, fold the paper into a triangle and unfold it, then rotate it and fold into a triangle again.

Unfold once more, fold the bottom corner up partway, then fold the corner down to line up with the base.

Fold the top corner down, then fold the corner up to meet the top edge.

Slightly fold the left corner, flip the paper over, and fold both sides toward the center.

Finish by folding both sides toward the center again so that the bottom part becomes the handle.

All done! Decorate with your favorite fruit designs and have fun.

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Marble ice with paper towels

When it comes to summertime sweets, it has to be ice cream! So let’s make some marble ice cream using rolled-up kitchen paper.

First, cut out the cone, heart, and spoon pieces from construction paper.

Paste the cone onto the backing sheet, draw a pattern on it, then roll up the kitchen paper, stack two scoops, and glue them on.

Soak the kitchen paper with watercolor paint thinned with water to add color, and finish by gluing the remaining pieces onto the empty spaces of the backing sheet.

It’ll be fun to see what kind of marble patterns the kids come up with!

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Finger-painted ice cream

How about making ice cream art with mess-free finger painting? Put a sheet of drawing paper with paint on it into a zip-top bag, then trace over it from the outside to finger paint! Since clothes won’t get dirty, it lightens the load for parents, too.

Once you’ve created patterns with the paint and let it dry, just cut the paper into ice cream shapes and stick them onto cones.

Imagining the flavors of ice cream with all those mixed colors is half the fun.

Enjoy creating your delicious ice cream art!

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[Scrap Materials] Ice Cream Shop

[For 2-year-olds] Let's pretend to be an ice cream shop and play!

[Scrap Materials] Ice Cream Shop

Cold ice cream that you crave in summer is a favorite food for kids too, right? Let’s try making our own ice cream and playing ice cream shop.

Cover a crumpled ball of newspaper with origami paper in your favorite ice cream color and tape it in place—your ice cream is ready! If you work together with friends to make a lot, put them in a basket and open your ice cream shop.

Try making cups and cones out of paper as well.

If you want to make it feel like a real shop, prepare some homemade play money too.

Even if it’s not real, the flow of making and selling ice cream, then buying and eating it, really captures the feel of summer.

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Ice cream in the wet-on-wet painting style

[Preschool Crafts] Perfect for summer wall displays! Easy blot-painting ice cream

Ice cream in the wet-on-wet painting style

Chilled and sweet ice cream is the perfect dessert for summer.

How about expressing that ice cream with a wet-on-wet painting? Brush water onto a round-cut piece of white drawing paper, then add your favorite paints on top.

Just dab the paint and it will soak into the water and spread, so keep adding while watching how it bleeds.

Draw patterns on a triangle-cut piece of paper to make the cone, then glue the cone and the ice cream onto a backing sheet to finish.

Feel free to use the empty spaces on the backing sheet for extra drawings or stickers.

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Colorful ice pop

Quick and easy!! Summer wall decorations: Ice pops // popsicles (school wall display)

Colorful ice pop

Chilled popsicles are perfect for hot summer days! Let’s make a cute popsicle wall decoration that will spark kids’ appetites.

It’s recommended to use construction paper in various colors to create colorful popsicles.

Then decorate them by sticking on small pieces of paper, scraps, stickers, and stamps.

You’ll end up with fun, festive-looking popsicles! It’s also a great idea to combine red and green paper to make a watermelon bar.

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[Childcare] Recommended for summer! 13 ice-cream craft ideas (21–30)

Easy origami you can do in 2 minutes

[In 2 Minutes] Simple and Cute! 5 Types of Summer Origami

Easy origami you can do in 2 minutes

Let me introduce a few types of easy and cute origami.

First, a watermelon: glue a red sheet and a green sheet of origami paper together, then fold.

Draw the seeds with a felt-tip pen and it’s done.

Shaved ice uses a folding method quite similar to a paper cup.

Draw the syrup with a felt-tip pen to finish.

Lanterns, cicadas, ice cream, and other simple summer-themed origami are sure to lift your spirits just by folding them.

They also look lovely when you stick them on walls or glass windows to create a seasonal atmosphere.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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