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July is National Ice Cream Month - Celebrate With Ice Cream Painting

A Fun No Calorie Way to Celebrate This Month

By Laurie Corbett July 5, 2020

What You Need: 

  • Art Boards or Canvas
  • Shaving Cream
  • White Glue 
  • Tempra Paint - brown, red, green
  • Paint Brushes
  • Plastic Forks
  • Triangle Template - Here are many templates to choose from
  • Wooden craft sticks - optional

Create Your Masterpiece:

  1. If you want a color behind your ice cream cone paint your canvas and set aside to dry. 
  2. Trace a triangle on the bottom half of your canvas.
  3. Use brown paint to fill in your triangle. Use a Fork to create a cone design.
  4. In a small cup mix 1/4 cup of glue with 1/2 to 1 cup of shaving cream with a wooden craft stick. 
  5. Stir in 1 Tbsp of paint.
  6. With the paint brush or your hands, add the glue, shaving cream and paint mixture to your cone.
  7. 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! 

Here are some Other Ice Cream Crafts You Can Make This Month