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| Three ways to finish decorating these cotton batting soft-serve ice cream cones. Left, strawberry and vanilla swirl. Center, toffee crunch. Right, mint and vanilla with candy coated chocolate chunks. |
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| What the cotton batting cones look like before painting. |
These soft-serve ice cream cones are perfect for a tree decked out in candy, ice-cream and baked goods! Kids will enjoy finishing them with all kinds of craft materials too: seed beads, glitter, trims, paints etc...
Supply List:
- recycled egg carton (cardboard)
- cotton balls
- masking tape
- white school glue
- transparent glitter
- acrylic paints
- hooks for hanging
- brown paper bags
- I cut apart quite a few cardboard egg cartons while making these ornaments. Inside of each egg carton there are four sections that are shaped like cones. Cut these out and tape two together so that the shape you will be working with looks like a long tube, tapering at both ends.
- Mask all of the surfaces before layering the lower half with glue and brown paper bag scraps.
- Leave the upper cone for the layering of cotton batting and glue. Work the cotton in a spiral shape resembling soft-serve ice cream. This is the same spiral technique that I used for the cotton batting ice sickles here.
- I then painted the ice cream cones different colors. Some are pink and white, others chocolate and still more left white with glitter and sparkling balls.
- I painted the sugar cones last using a very small paint brush to sketch the diamond pattern.
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