All children on Earth love all kinds of sweets, but their favorite is, of course, ice cream. And every little housewife will want to please her dolls with this cold delicacy. In this matter, you need to help the child and make a waffle cone or popsicle on a stick for the doll.
To make ice cream from plasticine with your own hands, you can take either regular plasticine or Play Doh modeling clay. First, let's look at the first option on how to make your own delicious ice cream from ordinary plasticine!
Useful activity
Plasticine is a modeling mass made from various substances and having different properties. It was originally made from clay and vegetable oils mixed with wax. Now plasticine is produced from polyvinyl chloride and high molecular weight polyethylene. And there are a lot of other relatives of this material.
For example, ball clay consists of many small foam balls that are held in place by special glue.
Why is modeling so useful? They develop perseverance and increase attention, develop imagination and logical thinking. Due to the fact that fine motor skills of the hands are actively trained during the modeling process, the speech center of the brain is stimulated. And both you and the children will be pleased to look at the result of the work.
Holiday for dolls
Your daughter’s favorite dolls decided to have a party for themselves. But for dessert they want delicious ice cream. How to be? Invite your little one to please the dolls by making plasticine ice cream for them with her own hands. And how to do this will be described in the master classes offered below.
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Chocolate popsicle
To make a delicious popsicle on a stick, use Play-Doh.
You will need pink, brown and yellow colors, sticks for attaching it - toothpicks or matches, a board and a stack.
Form a block from pink plasticine, and roll brown plasticine into a flat cake:
Now carefully hide the pink filling in the chocolate and insert the stick:
You need to tear the yellow plasticine into small pieces and attach it to the ice cream, you will get a nut topping:
The principle of sculpting is the same, but the decoration is made of small thin sausages of different colors. The ice cream came with confectionery topping.
Ice cream in a bowl
To create a sweet ice cream in a creamer you will need:
- white plasticine;
- cap from a tube of toothpaste;
- some beads of different colors.
Roll a sausage out of white plasticine, roll it into a spiral and attach it to the “cup”:
Decorate the top with beads. Ice cream is ready!
Sweet cone
To make an ice cream cone, take orange and yellow plasticine, some beads, a modeling board and a glass.
Make a horn from orange plasticine. To do this, turn the plasticine into a cake and use a stack to apply notches, imitating a waffle pattern:
The resulting cake needs to be rolled into a cone and a pre-made ball of yellow plasticine placed in it:
Next we decorate the horn with beads:
The delicious dessert is ready. You can call the dolls to the table and start the holiday!
Craft “ice cream on a stick” (popsicle)
Popsicle riddles
Do you want me to show you a trick? I'm holding snow on a stick! I ate the snow, what a pity. Only the stick remained. I ate the snow, became happier, and didn’t get sick at all. (Answer: ice cream, popsicle)
Wooden leg, chocolate shirt. I melt in the sun, I disappear in my mouth. (Answer: ice cream, popsicle)
In our south, as a rule, summers are unbearably hot, so we often eat ice cream in the summer, including ice cream on a stick - popsicle. And my eldest daughter and I use the sticks themselves as a material for creativity when making crafts or make something out of them that has practical applications. For example, bookstores.
Last summer we turned popsicle sticks into whole popsicles. True, not real.
For this craft, in addition to popsicle sticks, we needed cardboard and paper. The result of this creative work is interesting because it can simultaneously play a role:
- popsicle-shaped bookmarks
- toy (fake) food for dolls or children's role-playing games for treats, receiving guests, mothers and daughters, etc.
- easy summer crafts for younger kids
History and International Popsicle Day
A popsicle is a creamy, glazed ice cream on a stick. It is popular all over the world, loved by both adults and children. For many people, it is associated with pleasant memories of childhood.
Did you know that popsicle lovers have their own holiday? It turns out that a very unusual sweet holiday, International Popsicle Day, is celebrated on January 24th.
The winter date of the holiday in honor of a delicacy that is especially popular in the summer heat seems strange. But she was not chosen by chance. According to one of the most common versions, on this day in 1922, the owner of an American candy store received a patent for popsicles. The idea for chocolate-covered ice cream, which he called “Eskimo Pie,” was suggested to him one day by a small customer in his store - the kid couldn’t decide what to buy: ice cream or a chocolate bar.
Ice cream on a stick is not always a popsicle. For ice cream to be called a popsicle, one stick is not enough. It must still be covered with glaze. By the way, this type of ice cream did not acquire sticks immediately, but only a decade after it was patented.
In our country, its production began shortly before the Great Patriotic War. It was covered with chocolate glaze and had a cylindrical shape. Now the taste of ice cream, the glaze, and the shape are very different.
A postcard or bookmark in the shape of a popsicle can be given to friends and acquaintances not only on January 24, but also on any other day.
How to make an Ice Cream Popsicle craft from paper. Master Class
Materials and tools
- ice cream sticks (if you don’t have them, you can cut them out of thick cardboard)
- colored paper
- colored cardboard
- scissors
- wide transparent adhesive tape (scotch tape) - optional
Stages of work completion
When working with children, you will need to prepare ice cream templates from cardboard in advance. You can trace them with a pencil, attaching a sheet of paper to the screen, or click on the picture with the template, save and print in the desired size.
To develop children's creative thinking, it will be useful if you invite them to imagine and make the ice cream unusual - decorate it with stripes, circles or other shapes made of colored paper. In this case, you can use decorative colored adhesive tapes, ready-made stickers in the shape of geometric shapes, or elements made of self-adhesive colored paper.
Various decorative elements for crafts are very convenient and quick to make and.
A popsicle craft made entirely from waste material will look interesting - from a wooden stick and food packaging with fruits or berries depicted on it.
We made this unusual three-dimensional ice cream craft from the film from a milkshake bottle.
Ice cream applique - popsicle for kids
Very young children who do not yet know how to use scissors can be given ready-made appliqué parts made from self-adhesive paper:
- stripe that represents a popsicle stick
- an oval or a rectangle rounded on one side is the upper, edible part of the ice cream
- details for decoration
You can decorate the applique with confetti circles made from colored paper using a regular office hole punch, or with pieces of plasticine - you need to pinch them off from a block of plasticine, roll them into balls, and then press them onto the applique.
When using plasticine, it is better to take glossy paper - plasticine does not leave greasy stains on it so quickly. Among several sets of glossy colored paper for children's creativity, we did not find the required color of paper, so we used waste material - we cut out the necessary part from the packaging of nylon tights.
Older children can cut out the pieces themselves.
How to make an “Eskimo Ice Cream” craft from matchboxes. Master Class
This craft is very simple to make, and for its production you will need mainly waste materials: matchboxes and popsicle sticks.
Options for using the Eskimo craft
Bookmark - popsicle
Crafts made using the very first of the proposed methods are suitable as bookmarks.
Holiday garland with popsicle
When making a popsicle for a garland, you need to bend the colored paper from the top, not from the side, as stated in the instructions at the beginning of the article.
Leader of the plasticine market
The first plasticine of the Play-Doh brand was released in 1956. Since then, she has sold more than two billion jars of this wonderful modeling material. Its advantage over other types of plasticine is that it is absolutely safe, very soft and flexible, does not stick to your hands and has a wide range of bright colors. And the recipe for Play Do plasticine is kept in strict confidence. It is only known that its composition includes wheat, water and salt, i.e., in essence, it is not plasticine at all, but modeling dough.
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Even if during classes the baby swallows a small piece of this mass, nothing bad will happen, because all the components have a natural composition, even food dyes are used to create it. But you won’t want to try it again, this plasticine tastes bitter and salty. It is packaged in a cellophane shell, which is placed in a beautiful plastic cup. The lids of the cups have a stamp that can be used to leave beautiful imprints on plasticine. She didn’t stop at producing just modeling dough; she also produces a variety of accessories for modeling: all kinds of stacks, molds, rolling pins, stamps and even entire sets.
How to make ice cream from plasticine with your own hands with a child
For the waffle cone, take orange and white plasticine. Let's knead the orange plasticine and mold it into a large round cake. Then on one side of the flatbread we draw a lattice with a stack and twist it to form a horn. Roll a ball out of white plasticine and put it in the horn. The ice cream can be left as is, or you can decorate it with strips of red plasticine, imitating jam.
If you decide that there will be not one, but three balls in the horn, then the horn should be made larger. The balls can be made of the same or different colors and you will get ice cream like this:
Now let's make a waffle cone with multi-colored ice cream from the Play Do modeling mixture. To do this, we will need several colors of Play Doh plasticine, a toy rolling pin, a stack, and a syringe for squeezing out the embossed sausage.
- Take a beige or brown modeling mixture and make a round cake out of it.
- Let's draw a lattice on the flatbread in a stack and form it into a horn of the required size.
- Let's take a small piece of the modeling mixture in different colors and place them one by one in the syringe.
- We squeeze the embossed sausage into the cone, forming a beautiful multi-colored ice cream.
Now the main thing is to make sure that the child does not eat this tasty treat.
Ice cream from Play Do
In order to make ice cream from the Play Do modeling mass, there are entire toy ice cream factories of different configurations and sizes, with which you can make the most incredible delicacy, as far as your imagination allows. You can purchase such a factory both in a toy store and in special online stores. Depending on the configuration, the set includes the ice cream factory itself and many cups, plates and templates for decoration.
Bright ice cream on a stick
Making ice cream on a stick from Play Do modeling mixture is not difficult at all. The ice cream kit has special molds and templates for this. Ice cream can be made either single-color or rainbow. For a two-color or three-color delicacy, we fold sausages of different colors from the modeling mass into a template on both sides and fold the sides together, after inserting a stick. We squeeze so that both sides of the template are connected without a gap, and open it. The result was multi-colored ice cream on a stick.
Read below for another option on how to make bright plasticine ice cream on a stick with your own hands. This time you won't need any special equipment.
- We take small pieces of Play Do modeling mixture and roll them into balls.
- Pull out a thin sausage from each ball.
- Place all the sausages together in a circle.
- Roll out the resulting thick cylinder a little so that the components of the sausages of different colors stick together into one whole.
- We twist the cylinder a little so that the strips of individual colors twist into a small spiral.
- We cut off the cylinder on one side. You can also trim the ice cream from the second end, but you can also round it.
- Insert an ice cream stick.
Rainbow ice cream on a stick is ready!
We will make ice cream in a bowl using the Play Do ice cream factory and ice cream cups from the same set.
- Take one or two colors of modeling mass and roll it into a neat sausage as thick as the diameter of an ice cream press.
- We place this sausage in an ice cream press and press it down on top with the piston from the press.
- We place the cup or bowl you like under the hole from below and secure it to the stand. The cup does not have to be from a set; it can be any deep plate from your favorite set of toy dishes, or you can form a cup from plasticine.
- At the same time, squeeze out the ice cream sausage and twist the delivery with the glass. The process should result in a neat spiral, similar to real ice cream.
- Let's decorate the delicacy using stars, fruits and berries, the templates of which are on the design elements of the ice cream factory.
The resulting ice cream is very similar to the real thing and you just want to eat it.
In order to make an ice cream sandwich from Play Doh plasticine, you will need brown and white plasticine and a toothpick or match. Take a brown modeling mixture and make two identical rectangular cakes. Let's make small holes in them with a match or toothpick, imitating real cookies. Now we make a thick rectangular cake from the white modeling mass, slightly smaller in size than the brown cakes. Next, place the white “ice cream” between two brown “cookie” rectangles. The result was an ice cream sandwich made from plasticine, very similar to the real thing.
