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    Design Dazzle » Kids » Summer Camp/Crafts

    Published: Jul 16, 2015 · Modified: Jul 31, 2020 by Toni Roberts · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

    Needle Felt Ice Cream Cone Necklace

     

     

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    Hi campers! I’m Sunny from Sunny by Design. It has been raining a lot here this summer so I thought I’d share one of our favorite rainy day crafts. Summer always makes me ice cream obsessed. I love to eat it, make it and craft it. What better way to enjoy an ice cream on a rainy day than to wear your own felt ice cream cone necklace. If you’ve never heard of “needle felting”  this craft is a simple and easy way to learn. It’s perfect for rainy days because it can be set aside if you don’t finish it right away and come back to it later. In the end you will have a soft, squishy, adorable ice cream cone necklace.

    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design!

     

    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design!

    Another thing I love about felting is that you don’t need many supplies. Just felting wool, a spongy mat and needle, which can be found online or in most craft stores. They are usually by the yarn and knitting sections. It’s important that you use a felting needle because it has little jagged edges to help pull and snag the wool.

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    Start with the pink wool to create the ice cream scoop. Roll the wool into a loose ball shape. The wool starts out fluffy but the more you poke it and prick it with the felting needle the firmer it will become. It’s important to keep turning it while you poke so all your sides are as even as possible. It’s even more important to not poke your fingers. The felting needle is very sharp and I did poke myself a few times when I first started felting.

    *This is not a good craft for small children. My 11 year old daughter loves it and she’s gotten very good at it. Preteen or teenager is a good age to begin felting.*

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    Then roll the brown wool into a loose cone shape. Poke and turn the cone shape to make it firm and form it. Do not poke the larger end, just leave it loose so you can attach it to the ice cream scoop.

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    Place the cone on top of the ice cream scoop and poke the needle down through the cone into the scoop. The needle will grab all those loose wool fibers from the cone and pull them down into the scoop binding them together.

    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design!

    What’s great about this craft is that you can easily stop here and have a cute simple ice cream cone shape. If you would like more detail you can continue on to add the diagonal waffle pattern around the cone and the little poofy ruffle at the bottom of the scoop.

    To add the diagonal pattern pull off a small thin section of the light brown wool and twist it in your fingers so it looks like thread. Then lay it on top of the cone and start poking at the top, working your way down the cone at an angle. This will attach the light brown wool to the cone. Do this three times so you have three diagonal lines around the cone.

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    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design

    Repeat the above steps in the opposite direction three times. This will create the crisscross pattern on the cone. Just cut the excess wool off at the ends.

    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design

    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design

    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design!

    The more you prick the wool the more compact it will get. When you want to add details to a section you just prick more where you want the wool indented.

    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design

    I kept the string very long (about 3 feet) so I could cut it to size after threading it. Since my string wasn’t as thick as I wanted I also doubled it so the end thread was about 1 ½ feet long.

    Make your own ice cream cone necklace. Super easy - created by Sunny by Design

    Yay! You’re done. Now you have an adorably sweet ice cream cone necklace forever more. Happy Summer!

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    What a delightful idea, Sunny! Thanks for sharing!

    Want to see more summertime fun ideas? Check out the Summer Camp Archives!

     

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