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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 (21–30)

fluffy ice cream

Ice cream is something you’ll want to eat every day once summer arrives.

How about incorporating a three-dimensional ice cream craft into your July activities? Using shaving foam, you can create ice cream with a wonderfully fluffy texture! All you need to do is mix shaving foam, white craft glue, and food coloring.

Attach a cone cutout to construction paper, decorate it with your ice cream, and you’re done! You can also add stickers or draw designs for extra decoration.

This fun, super tactile craft is sure to delight children.

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Sticky Stickers Ice Pops (for ages 0–1)

Let’s have children aged 0–1 try making ice cream toppings! Please prepare not only the base items—ice cream scoops, cones, and sticks—but also the materials for the toppings.

Recommended topping materials include small pieces of origami, various shapes made with craft punches, stickers, and felt balls.

Encourage the children to freely stick these on and enjoy decorating their ice cream.

Try making a one-of-a-kind, cute, and delicious ice cream!

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[Sticker Activity] Colorful Ice Cream

This is a sticker-based ice cream craft that even infants can easily enjoy.

First, the teacher should cut construction paper into ice cream shapes.

Then, have the children stick colorful stickers onto the cutouts.

Round stickers in various sizes and colors are especially easy to use and recommended.

There’s no need for glue, and the quick, sticky “pasting” sensation is fun for the children—so be sure to include this in your craft activities.

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[Wall Display] Ice Cream and Penguins

Let’s try making a cute wall decoration that combines ice cream and penguins.

First, the teacher should prepare by cutting construction paper into penguin and ice cream shapes.

Then, have the children decorate the ice cream and glue on the penguin parts.

For infants, we recommend decorating the ice cream with finger painting, using paint dabbed on their fingertips.

For preschoolers, let’s try marbling: drip paint into water mixed with something like liquid laundry starch, then dip the paper you want to color.

Encourage them to enjoy the process freely—from mixing colors to creating their own designs.

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[Tissue Paper] Pom-Pom Ice Cream

How to make pom-pom ice cream with flower paper

[Tissue Paper] Pom-Pom Ice Cream

Let’s make fluffy ice cream using tissue paper flowers! Teachers, please prepare in advance by making the ice cream cones out of construction paper and folding the tissue paper into an accordion, stopping before you spread it out.

The children will take the pre-folded tissue paper, open it up to create the flower shape, and place the opened “flower” on top of the cone to complete the fluffy ice cream! It’s also fun to make several flowers in different colors and stack them to create two-, three-, or even more-scoop ice cream cones.

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[Bleeding/Drip Painting] Refreshing Ice Cream

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

[Bleeding/Drip Painting] Refreshing Ice Cream

If you want to make fresh-looking, beautiful ice cream art, we recommend using the wet-on-wet bleeding technique.

The teacher should prepare white construction paper cut into ice cream scoop shapes and paper cut into cone shapes.

Depending on the age group, it can also be good to have the children do the cutting themselves.

Brush water onto the scoop-shaped paper to dampen it.

Then apply paint on top—the colors will gradually bleed and create beautiful patterns.

It’s best to combine several colors.

You can also use water-based markers instead of paint.

Once it’s dry, pair it with the cone to finish! Even when using the same colors, each piece turns out differently, which makes it fun.

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First Scissors: Age 2 – Ice Cream Craft

[Ice Cream Making] First Time Using Scissors (Nursery School / Kindergarten)

First Scissors: Age 2 – Ice Cream Craft

For two-year-olds using scissors for the first time, let’s have them make ice cream crafts where a single snip creates a shape.

The children will make the ice cream toppings.

Prepare the bases—the ice cream scoops and cones—by cutting colored construction paper into those shapes in advance.

Give the children long strips of colorful origami paper and have them cut the strips into roughly 1 cm pieces to create the toppings.

When they’re done, they can glue them onto the ice cream to finish! Make the ice cream bases fairly large so the children can stick on lots of toppings.

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