Instructor: Marie Gattis

Email Marie with questions: [email protected]

Materials/Tools Needed:

• White caulk

• Paint – chocolate brown, strawberry red, mint green, white

• Fabric paint – red, brown, white for ice cream

• Brown, white and tan Fimo, chopped into very tiny pieces

• Tiny red beads for cherries

• Ball-shaped candy sprinkles (I used real sprinkles – no problem with bugs)

• Miniature bananas

• Mini spoons and ice cream scoops (may use toothpicks painted silver)

• Clear pushpins for ice cream sundae bowls

• Tops from glue bottles for milkshake glasses

• Inside packaging for capsules such as Contact for banana split dishes 

• Bowls for toppings

• Thin nylon string (the kind that attaches tags to garments is perfect) for straws

• 3/8-inch wooden dowel

• Cardboard, 1 x 2-inches

• Tacky glue

• Super glue

• Scissors

• Ruler

• Saw for cutting pushpins

• Pencil sharpener

Make the sundae cups by first removing the pin and then using a saw to remove the middle section from a clear pushpin.  Glue the remaining top and bottom pieces together to make a dish.  To make a sundae use the white fabric paint for the ice cream.  Drizzle on some “strawberry” or “hot fudge” acrylic paint.  Add a little whipped cream, chopped nuts and a cherry.

Make the banana split dishes from the clear plastic packaging such as is found around capsules like Contact cold medicine.  Glue a bubble portion of the plastic to an oval cut from the plastic using super glue.  To make a banana split put 3 scoops of fabric paint (your choice of flavors) in the dish.  Add toppings as desired.  No need to add the banana - it would be covered by all the delicious toppings anyway!

Make the ice cream cones by sharpening one end of the dowel in a pencil sharpener.  Cut the dowel ¾” from the pointed end and paint brown.  Continue sharpening, cutting and painting until you have 8 to 10 cones.  Fill the cones by adding a little mound of fabric paint to the flat end.  Make a holder for the cones from a 1 ½ x 2” piece of card stock (see photo).  Use a large needle or small nail to make rows of holes.  Other minis can be added such as a container of straws, napkins, a milk shake mixer – whatever you have available.

Tips:   

• The cherries are “berries” from artificial Christmas holly.

• The straws are made from telephone wire.

• The scoops were made from birthday candleholders.  I cut away some of the cup portion that holds the candle and painted them silver.

• To make the can of whipped cream roll a ½” wide strip of paper into a tight coil.  Glue the overlapping portion together.  After the glue has dried use a pin to telescope the paper until the can is about ¾ tall.  Glue a tiny metal tube into the center of the top to form the spout