My ‘Kids Craft Stars’ friends and I are back with another fun craft challenge. This month we’ve been crafting with egg cartons, which are such a great versatile material to make with. With Earth day this month, using old egg cartons to craft with is a fun way to recycle too!
For our egg carton craft, the boys and I decided to make some egg carton ice cream cones, along with a tray so they could play at selling ice cream. These are really easy to make and fun to play with once you’re done.
Ice cream-themed crafts and activities, like our
egg carton ice cream cone craft, bring a scoop of joy and a sprinkle of creativity to any child’s learning experience. Not only are these activities bursting with fun, but they ingeniously blend educational themes into the mix.
For instance, while crafting their ice cream cones, kids can dive into a world of colors, shapes, and textures, sharpening their sensory and fine motor skills.
To sweeten the educational journey, incorporate an ‘Ice Cream Sensory Bin‘ as the cherry on top. This hands-on activity can serve as a playground for children to explore different materials, fostering their cognitive and language development.
As they scoop, pour, and play, children are also introduced to basic math concepts like counting and measuring. So, let’s indulge in this ice cream-themed adventure, where learning is as delightful as enjoying a real ice cream cone on a sunny day!
How to Make Egg Carton Ice Cream Cones for Pretend Play
To make the set of egg carton ice cream cones you will need:
- 6 Central cones from a large egg box
- 1 small egg box for the tray
- Cotton wool balls and large pom poms in a variety of ice cream colours
- Small pom poms (optional)
- Glue gun
These are the central cones that you will need.
The egg carton cones make perfect ice cream cones, so all you need to do is pick your ice cream colours and glue the pom poms or cotton wool onto the inside of the cone to create scoops of ice cream.
You can then add more detail by adding smaller pom poms on top to act as cherries or sprinkles.
We made
- Plain Vanilla
- Vanilla with cherries
- Vanilla with pink sprinkles
- Strawberry
- Blueberry
- Lemon sorbet
Your kids can have fun coming up with all kinda of crazy flavours if they like, using whichever coloured pom poms you have on hand, or you could try dyeing the cotton wool balls if you don’t have coloured pom poms around.
To make the tray, a 6 egg carton is a good size. The kids personalised their tray by painting it and making a couple of signs “Ice cream for sale” and “No more ice cream – sold out” to display on the inside.
Once the ice cream cones and tray is finished, your kids can set up a play shop with play money or feed the ice creams to their teddies
Or play at eating them themselves of course!
More Ice Cream Crafts and Activities For Kids
- Decorate the Ice Cream Play Dough Mats
- Cool Ice Cream Coloring Pages
- Easy Healthy Home Made Ice Cream With a Blender
- Free Printable Popsicle Template For Kids Crafts
- Perler Bead Popsicles Craft (Free Printable Templates)
Don’t forget to check out the other Kids Craft Stars egg carton ideas :
Egg Carton Floral Crown from Hello Wonderful
Egg Carton Flower Pins from Pink Stripey Socks
Egg Carton Whale from I Heart Crafty Things
Flower & Butterfly Garland from I Heart Arts and Crafts
Egg Carton Owls from Glued to My Crafts
Egg Carton Ladybugs from Fun Handprint Art
Egg Carton Turtle from Crafty Morning
Egg Carton Flowers in a Vase from Artsy Momma
Egg Carton Beehive and Bee from A Little Pinch of Perfect
We’d love to see your egg carton craft ideas, tag them #kidscraftstars on Instagram to share them with us.
Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.
Her easy-to-follow craft ideas and practical parenting advice have transformed In The Playroom into a cherished resource for parents.
oh good grief these are fantastic! i am maybe sort of jealous i did not think of it. 😉 thank you for sharing! saving this idea for next year’s ice cream study.
What a great idea! My kids would have a blast playing with these!
Great idea!
We made ice-cream cones using brown and yellow card. We rolled the card into cone shapes then stuck the pom poms on 🙂
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What a fab idea – perfect craft for this weather we’re having right now x x
This is a really cute craft! Thanks for linking up at the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop! We hope you join us again next week!
Luca says – I love ice cream and I rally like the idea of using it for an idea for a craft. Is it wrong that I think they also look very yummy to? Thanks for linking to #minicreations