Bring a little summer fun into your classroom with this easy and engaging Ice Cream Craft! Young learners colour their own ice cream cone before decorating it with soft white cotton wool and colourful rice grains to create a fun, textured ice cream scoop.
What Students Do
• Colour the ice cream cone.
• Cut around the ice cream cone.
• Glue cotton wool onto the scoop to create the ice cream.
• Sprinkle coloured rice grains over the cotton wool to make colourful sprinkles.
• Attach a chopstick or popsicle stick to the back.
• Hold up and display their finished ice cream craft!
Great For
• Fine motor skills
• Cutting and colouring practice
• Creativity and self-expression
• Colour recognition
• Sensory exploration
• Following simple instructions
• Kindergarten and young ESL learners
Why Teachers Will Love It
This is a low-prep, hands-on craft that gives young students plenty of opportunities to practice important fine motor skills while creating something they will be excited to show off.
The combination of cotton wool and coloured rice adds a fun sensory element and makes the finished ice creams look wonderfully colourful and 3D. The completed craft can also be used as a classroom prop, display piece, or fun summer-themed activity.
Credits & Copyright
© 2026 Sonyja Murphy. All rights reserved.
This educational resource was created by Sonyja Murphy.
Illustrations in this resource were created with the assistance of AI (ChatGPT by OpenAI) and have been edited and arranged as part of this original educational work.