How to Make a Cone Out of Construction Paper

Making a cone out of construction paper is easy! Once you learn, you'll be able to make ice cream cones, clown hats, Christmas trees, and all sorts of things!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Construction Paper
• Pencil
• Protractor (or circular object to trace)
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Glue

1. Take out your paper, and place it on a flat surface. (If one side of the paper is different from the other, you'll want to put the wrong side up.)

2. 
   I used a CD

   Take out your tracing instrument and draw a circle on your paper. The larger the circle, the bigger your cone will be (either taller or wider). If you don't have a protractor, you might use a soup can, coffee can, or round garbage can.

3. 

   Cut out your circle.

4. 

   Pinpoint the center of the circle using the ruler, and make a dot there. Cut a straight line from any point on the edge of the circle to the center dot. This cut is the radius of the circle.

5. 

   Take the two flaps along the radius cut and fold one over the other. As you increase the overlap, the cone should start to take shape. The more these flaps overlap, the taller and skinnier the cone will become.

6. 

   When you've found your preferred cone shape, secure the overlapped flaps with glue or other adhesive. If there is a lot of overlap, feel free to cut off some of the excess paper- this will result in a Pac-Man looking circle, and you will glue the sides of his mouth together.

7. 
   Yours does not have to be this ugly

   Finally, decorate the outside of your cone! You can use other pieces of construction paper, markers and colored pencils, string, beads, or glitter to achieve the look you want for your creation.

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful with the scissors and protractor
• Watch out for papercuts

[whiskeytango]

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[johnnyutah]

on 5/7/2009 cool..nice work on How to Make a Cone Out of Construction Paper 5*

[starlet67]

on 4/12/2009 Nice craft article with good use of pics!5*