Instructions (read these for more detail!) You will need... • Beige polymer clay • Pink, orange and white polymer clay (or any colors of your choice) • Ruler • Ballpoint pen (not anything fancy, because it's going inside the cone) • Glue • Black card (forgot to mention but you'll also need the red card if you want blush on the faces) • Rolling pin • Scissors 1) Take the beige clay out of its packet and warm it with your hands so it's easier to mold. Then, roll it out. When you're done rolling, it should look a bit like a diamond. Use your ruler to cut diagonal lines down the clay (for the waffle cone effect). Do both sides. Then cut the sides and top off (as shown in the animation). Now roll the clay into a cone-like shape. Make sure the tip of the cone (once rolled) is flat and NOT pointed. If it's pointed, then the pen won't be able to fit inside. 2) Now you need to take the pen apart to see if it fits inside the cone. If it doesn't, you'll have to take your cone apart and repeat what you just did. If it does, awesome! Leave it to bake in the oven for twenty minutes (but take the pen out first or you will have a melted pen). 3) Take your first (bottom) scoop of clay out of the packet and warm it with your hands like before. Grab a little tinfoil and roll it into a ball, then start to mold the clay around the tinfoil. Repeat this for the other (second and third) scoops and leave them to bake in the oven for forty minutes. [side note: the tinfoil is used so that it's easier to roll the clay into a dome-like shape. Make doubly sure that the scoop is not spherical, but flat at the bottom.) 3) Get your baked cone and the pen out. Cut the top of the pen off so that it fits inside the cone and then put some glue on the tip of the pen so the ink doesn't leak out. Then, glue the top and bottom of the cone's inside and slide the pen inside. Leave it to dry. 4) Back to our scoops of ice cream. Glue the scoops together. Then cut cute eyes and mouths out of your black card (and the blush out of your red card) and stick it all on. Glue the bottom of your scoops and stick it on the top of the cone. Leave it all to dry. 5) You're done! I hope you like your brand-new ice cream pen! :D
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