Handprint Ice Cream

Make an adorable handprint ice cream from construction paper with this easy Summer craft idea. This is a fun keepsake craft and looks cute hanging on the wall or fridge to brighten up your home.

There are lots of ways you can get creative with the toppings!

You might also like our 3D Paper Ice Cream craft

Who doesn’t love ice cream? The handprint paper version isn’t quite as sweet but it’s almost as good.

Make your ice cream any flavour you like by using construction paper in that colour. Can’t decide? Turn it into a multi-scoop by tracing adding more handprints in different colours!

The example ice cream is topped with flavoured ice cream syrup, sprinkles and a cherry, but kids can get creative and change this up.

Extra topping ideas:

To add choc chips, use hole punch circles from brown paper cut in halves
Draw raspberry ripples with coloured dark pink marker
Make a wafer by cutting orange or brown construction paper into a triangle and patterning it with marker crosshatches
Use a larger circle hole punch to create multi-coloured construction paper smarties
Replace the cherry shape with a strawberry

You get the picture.

Let’s get started on the craft…

How to make a Handprint Ice Creams

You will need:

Coloured construction paper
Pencil
Glue stick or craft glue
Scissors
Markers
The template (optional)

Get the template

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How to

Print the template out and cut out the shapes.

Trace the cone shape onto light brown or orange, the topping onto a colour of your choice, the cherry onto red and the stem to green (or just snip a rectangle shape from green). Cut sprinkle-sized rectangles from a rainbow of colours.

Lay hand (the cone has been designed to work with a child-size hand) over construction paper in the colour you want your ice cream to be. Trace around it with a pencil.

Cut the shapes out.