Preschool Crafts

4 Ice Cream Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

4 ice cream crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 using paper, paint, and glue.

Kindergarten Prep Team
Oct 11, 2026

Shaving cream and glue, stirred together, make a paint that dries puffy; add a hand-crafted cone, and you've got yourselves an ice cream. Here are four ice cream arts and crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture, the supplies, and the steps.

A three-year-old dollops puffy paint onto the cone and presses pom-pom sprinkles onto it while it's wet. A five-year-old paints egg carton scoops, stacks them, and adds the cherry, then turns a lowercase i into a cone. July, the week the real thing is on the menu.

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Puffy paint ice cream cone, an easy ice cream craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Puffy paint ice cream coneShaving cream and glue, the one they rememberPaper plate ice cream cone, an easy ice cream craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Paper plate ice cream conePaint a plate, add sprinkles, doneLetter I ice cream, an easy ice cream craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Letter I ice creamLowercase i, cone and scoop

4 ice cream crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

Puffy paint ice cream cone, an easy ice cream craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

1. Puffy paint ice cream cone

The child mixes shaving cream with glue and a little paint and dollops the fluffy mix on top of a paper cone.

You need: light blue cardstock, brown paper, shaving cream, white glue, pink paint, rainbow sprinkles

How to make it
  1. You cut a brown triangle and glue it point down on the light blue cardstock as the cone.
  2. Mix shaving cream, white glue and pink paint into thick puffy paint.
  3. Your child spoons and spreads a thick mound above the cone as a round scoop.
  4. Drop sprinkles on the wet paint. Leave it flat to dry for a day.
Egg carton ice cream cone, an easy ice cream craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

2. Egg carton ice cream cone

The child paints egg carton cups as scoops and stacks them on a paper cone with a pompom cherry.

Build it

You need: single egg carton cups, pink, light green and yellow paint, brown paper, 1 red pom pom, light blue paper, white glue

How to make it
  1. You cut the cups apart and cut them in half. Your child paints them. Let them dry.
  2. Cut a brown triangle and glue it point down on the light blue paper as the cone.
  3. Glue the halved cups upside down in a stack above the cone, the first one touching the cone.
  4. Glue the red pom pom on top as a cherry.
Paper plate ice cream cone, an easy ice cream craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

3. Paper plate ice cream cone

The child paints a paper plate as a scoop, adds pom pom sprinkles and glues it on a paper cone.

Painting

You need: 1 small white paper plate, pink paint, light brown paper, brown crayon, small pom poms and 1 red one, light blue paper and glue

How to make it
  1. Your child paints the plate pink. Let it dry.
  2. You cut a large triangle from light brown paper. Your child draws criss-cross lines on it with the brown crayon.
  3. Glue the triangle point down on the blue sheet, then glue the plate over its wide top.
  4. Glue small pom poms on the plate as sprinkles and the red one on top as a cherry.
Letter I ice cream, an easy ice cream craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

4. Letter I ice cream

The child turns a lowercase i into an ice cream: the stem becomes the cone and the dot a scoop with a cherry on top.

Cut and glue

You need: light brown construction paper, pink construction paper, 1 small red pom pom, brown crayon, 1 sheet of white paper, glue stick

How to make it
  1. You cut a tall, narrow brown rectangle as the cone. Your child glues it upright on the lower part of the white sheet.
  2. Your child draws criss-cross lines down the cone with the brown crayon.
  3. Cut a pink circle a little wider than the cone. Glue it above the cone, leaving a thin white gap.
  4. Glue the red pom pom on top of the pink circle.
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Ice cream crafts with a 3 year old: puffy paint first

Puffy paint is shaving cream, white glue and a squeeze of paint stirred in a bowl. Give the child a spoon and a paper cone, and let them dollop. It dries puffy overnight, so leave it flat.

A three year old can dollop, paint a plate and press on pom pom sprinkles. Cutting the paper cones, the egg carton cups and the letter i is your part. A five year old can stack the scoops and glue them straight.

Say the sound while you make the letter I ice cream: i, i, ice cream. The stem is the cone and the dot is the scoop, which is a good way to remember a lowercase i.

Count the scoops and the sprinkles as they go on. The paper plate cone hangs on the wall, the egg carton cone stands on a shelf, and the puffy paint one stays on the table until it is dry.

What you need for ice cream crafts

Most of these use the same handful of supplies: brown paper, white glue, pink paint, red pom pom, brown crayon, light blue cardstock, shaving cream, rainbow sprinkle. Everything else is named on the craft it belongs to.

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