How to Make Pom Pom Ice Cream Cones
Learn how to make these fun, easy DIY pom-pom ice cream cones! Use recycled toilet paper rolls to make the cones, and yarn to make the colorful ice cream scoops; it's the fast perfect craft for kids!
Materials
- Toilet Paper Tubes
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue
- Ice Cream Cone Templates (Available free in The Resource Library)
- Yarn
- Felt Balls (To make an optional variety)
Instructions
- Take one toilet paper tube and cut it up the side vertically, to make a rectangle.
- Use the cone template from the resource library, and trace and cut out cone shapes. There are two shapes of cones to choose from: a waffle or a sugar cone.You can make two cones per toilet paper tube. (You can make more if you are using the tube from paper towels.)
- Put a line of hot glue on one edge and roll the cardboard into a cone shape.
- Hold it in place until the glue is dry.That is the cardboard sugar cone!
- For a waffle cone, roll the cardboard up. This type of cone will have a higher back.
- Hot glue along the seam and hold it in place until it's dry.That is the cardboard waffle cone!
- Follow our tutorial showing how to make yarn pom poms by hand, and wrap it around two fingers, 50 times, to make a pom pom ball.
- Trim the pom's ends into a nice round yarn ball.
- Hot glue around the rim of the cardboard and add the yarn ball.
- Hold the cone firmly together while the glue dries.
- You can make a felt ball variation by hot gluing a felt ball to the top of the cardboard cone.
- Hold the ice cream cones together while the glue dries.
Notes
- The "sugar cone" template works best for yarn pom pom ice cream cones. The "waffle cone" template works best for felt ball ice cream cones.
- Hot glue dries fastest, but you can use craft glue to make it a more kid-friendly craft.
- If you don't have toilet paper or paper towel tubes, you can use thick paper like cardstock to make your own ice cream cones too.