You Scream! I Scream! We All Scream for Ice Cream!! My kids, okay me too, would eat ice cream every day if they could. Since, that is probably not the most healthiest choice we thought we would do a little ice cream art project so we could enjoy ice cream without all of the guilt. We found this project on Pinterest and with some modifcations my daughter's friends created their own ice cream cone art at her birthday party last month.
What You'll Need
Art Boards or Canvas
Shaving Cream
White Glue
Tempra Paint - brown, red, green
Paint Brushes
Triangle Template - cone shaped templates cut out of paper for the kids to trace.
Wooden craft sticks - optional
What You'll Do
- If you want a color behind your ice cream cone paint your canvas and set aside to dry. We choose to leave ours white.
- Trace a triangle on the bottom half of your canvas.
- Use brown paint to fill in your triangle.
- In a small cup mix 1/4 cup of glue with 1/2 to 1 cup of shaving cream with a wooden craft stick.
- Stir in 1 Tbsp of paint.
- With the paint brush or your hands, add the glue, shaving cream and paint mixture to your cone.
- Let dry and enjoy your masterpiece!
Tips
- Using your hands to paint on the "ice cream" gives it a more textured look.
- Save some $ an purchase your canvas at a discount store such as Ocean State Job Lot, and the shaving cream at the dollar store.
- Any color tempra paint works! We used red for strawberry ice cream, and green for mint. Purple for black raspberry, white for vanilla (if you have a colored background), and brown for chocolate would be fun too!
- Prefer your ice cream in a cup? Paint a cup first instead of a cone!
