Summer has well and truly arrived. Our freezer is well stocked with ice cream as the kids love a sweet treat when they come home from school. It inspired our latest craft activity, making our own origami cone ice cream craft! Origami is always fun, and these origami ice creams cones are so much fun to make. When you’ve mastered the folds, make them with different coloured papers to mimic your own favourite flavour!

Origami cone ice cream craft supplies

Coloured craft papers

Scissors

Craft glue

How to make an origami cone ice cream

Select light weight craft papers, one coloured paper for the cone and another coloured paper for the ice cream. Measure and cut the papers into size 15cm x 15cm.

Place both papers together. Fold the square papers in half, diagonally and unfold.

Hold any one side of the square and fold it in, aligning its edge with the diagonal half crease.

Similarly, fold the adjacent side, to the opposite side of the half crease.

Hold the wide edge of the current origami pattern’s top layer. Fold out the open edge as far as it goes and then flatten it.

Similarly, fold out the other side.

Turn the current pattern to the other side.

Notice the 2 extra parts on both sides of the current pattern. Fold up, align them with the base pattern’s edge and flatten neatly.

Hold any one side of the wide corner and fold it in. Align it with the middle crease of the current pattern.

Similarly, fold the other side.

Fold the white part (cream part) out.

Leaving 1 cm space, fold up the white part again.

Fold out the white part again by leaving a cm.

Fold the white part similarly one more time.

Turn the current pattern to the other side.

Select different coloured craft papers and cut out small pieces for the sprinkles.

Glue the paper sprinkle cutouts to the cream part of the origami ice cream to complete the craft.

You can easily adapt this our origami cone ice cream by using different coloured papers for the cone and ice cream.

What do you think? We think these are almost as good as the real thing on a hot day!