How to Make a Tissue Ice Cream Plushie
Craft a squishy paper and tissue ice cream plushie by sketching scoops, laminating with tape, sealing the perimeter, and stuffing with soft facial tissue.
This guide shows how to make a tissue ice cream plushie in 20-30 minutes. Start with draw and color ice cream design; follow the safety notes and step checkpoints below.
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🧰 Required Tools & Equipment
- ✓ Scissors
- ✓ Clear wide packing tape
- ✓ Colored markers or colored pencils
- ✓ Fine-tip black drawing pen
📦 Materials & Supplies
- ✓ 2 sheets of plain white paper
- ✓ 4-6 sheets of facial tissue
⚠️ Safety Checkpoints & Warnings
- • Keep fingers clear of scissor blades when cutting small curves around paper scoops.
- • Do not pull packing tape serrated teeth directly toward your fingers when dispensing.
📋 Step-by-Step Guide (6 Steps)
Draw and Color Ice Cream Design
Draw an ice cream cone with one or two rounded scoops on a sheet of white paper using your black pen. Add cute facial expressions or toppings like sprinkles and syrup, then fully color the design with markers.
- • Bold, fully colored ice cream illustration centered on paper
- • Distinct scoop outlines and waffle texture on the cone
- • Drawing the design too small, making it difficult to stuff later
- • Leaving large white uncolored gaps inside the line art
Laminate the Drawing with Clear Tape
Apply parallel strips of clear wide packing tape over the entire colored drawing, overlapping each strip by about 2 millimeters. Smooth out air bubbles firmly with your thumb or the edge of a ruler.
- • Entire drawing covered in a glossy, smooth layer of clear tape
- • No exposed paper on the front design
- • Allowing tape to wrinkle or fold over onto itself
- • Leaving unlaminated gaps between tape strips
Cut Front and Back Panels
Cut out the laminated ice cream illustration, leaving a clean 2 mm paper border around the outer outline. Place this cutout on the second paper sheet, trace its silhouette, laminate the back sheet with tape, and cut it out to form an identical back piece.
- • Two mirrored ice cream cutouts of matching size
- • Both cutouts laminated with clear tape on their outer surfaces
- • Cutting directly on the black line, weakening tape adhesion margins
- • Cutting the back piece smaller than the front piece
Tape Seams Leaving Stuffing Pocket
Align the front and back pieces with their laminated sides facing outward. Secure the edges together by folding small pieces of clear tape over the seams, working around the perimeter while leaving a 2-inch opening at the cone base.
- • Sealed edges around the scoops and upper cone with no gaps
- • A clear 2-inch open pocket at the bottom of the cone
- • Taping the entire perimeter shut with no opening for stuffing
- • Using long tape strips that bunch up around curved edges
Stuff Plushie with Shredded Tissue
Tear facial tissues into loose strips and crumple them lightly with your fingers. Insert the crumpled tissue pieces through the bottom opening, gently pushing them into the top scoops first, then filling the body until plump and squishy.
- • Plushie expands into a rounded, three-dimensional shape
- • Scoops and cone are evenly padded without over-stretching seams
- • Overstuffing, causing the edge tape seams to split
- • Packing tissue too tightly, losing the soft squishy feel
Seal Final Opening
Pinch the bottom opening flat and apply overlapping pieces of clear tape across the opening to seal the tissue inside. Trim any excess tape overhang along the cone edges.
- • Bottom seam fully sealed with clear tape
- • Plushie rebounds slowly when squeezed
- • Trapping tissue fibers in the final tape seam, preventing a tight seal
- • Leaving sharp tape corners sticking out
Credit: inspired by an original tutorial by Pogeun paper — watch the original on YouTube.
Don’t have everything?
- No Clear wide packing tape? Standard narrow transparent desk tape applied in overlapping rows
- No Facial tissue? Cotton balls, polyfill stuffing, or clean plastic grocery bags shredded into strips