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Ice-cream sundae

10 pieces · 8 steps

Build a sundae with a broad dish, stacked scoops and a bright cherry on top.

Ice-cream sundae - finished model
Before you build

Find the pieces

Match the shapes and quantities. The pictures show our colours. Use the pictured part and stud dimensions to find the same shape.

Count the studs

Studs are the round bumps on top. Count the lines of studs across and along a piece. When a step leaves a clear row or column, keep that space empty. Match the picture to keep the model facing the same way.

Follow the colour

New pieces keep their colour in each step. Earlier pieces are lighter so you can see what to add. The finished-model picture shows all the colours together.

Choose how to play

Choose one model and check its pieces first. Take it apart to reuse those pieces for another model. Pack-wide lists are optional planning tools; the exact-colour list follows the pictured palette.

Gather your pieces

Match the shapes and quantities. The pictures show our colours. Colour names in the steps refer to the pictures. Keep useful contrasts, such as a light belly against a dark body.

Shape-only checklist

Match these shapes and quantities. The full checklist above shows our pictured colours.

Build step by step

Step 1. Put the yellow round plate on the table as the foot of your sundae dish.

Ice-cream sundae - step 1, new pieces in colour

Step 2. Add two white square bricks side by side across the two middle rows. Keep a yellow row showing at the front and back.

Ice-cream sundae - step 2, new pieces in colour

Step 3. Join the white bricks with a white small plate turned across their tops.

Ice-cream sundae - step 3, new pieces in colour

Step 4. Centre the other yellow round plate over the white stand for the dish.

Ice-cream sundae - step 4, new pieces in colour

Step 5. Add two white double-curved bricks side by side as vanilla scoops, rounded ends towards the front and back.

Ice-cream sundae - step 5, new pieces in colour

Step 6. Join the scoops with a white small plate across their two middle rows.

Ice-cream sundae - step 6, new pieces in colour

Step 7. Centre a brown curve on the white plate for a chocolate scoop, with its rounded end pointing towards you.

Ice-cream sundae - step 7, new pieces in colour

Step 8. Finish with the red square brick on the flat top of the brown curve for a chunky cherry.

Ice-cream sundae - step 8, new pieces in colour

Ready to play

  1. Name the pretend vanilla, chocolate and cherry flavours.
  2. Take turns ordering and serving a sundae.
  3. Set the dish on the table and invent a name for your dessert.
Tell us how your build went
Sources and credits

Original model and instructions by Little Build Club. Piece geometry from the LDraw Parts Library.

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