In Switzerland for the start of the school year there is a tradition of offering to the kid a “schultüte” or “school cone”. These are cardboard cone that you can buy or make yourself and fill with sweets, stationery, and toys.
As Adrian started the new school year middle of August, I obviously had to make one.
I already made one for him the year before, a bit in a rush since I was not aware of this tradition and neither Ekaterina. I just used some paper I had at home from Christmas glued on it some football ball and filled it. Adrian was very happy with it. It’s very funny because I did it without any measure, I just took a pen and a rope to make a circle and the cone I made is huge. You can see on the picture it’s large than Adrian’s head 😂.
The schultüte you find in shops are usually longer but less wide.
For this year I tried to improve and took some measures.
To make a schultüte you need:
- 70cm*70cm paper minimum thick enough to be sturdy. I bought some 70cmx100cm paper 220g/m2 in yellow. Like this one. I wanted the schultüte theme to be the Bern football club and their colours are yellow and black.
- Some ribbon
- A pencil
- A small rope
- Glue or double side tape
- Scissors
- Decorations like any of these example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5, or hand make like I did
- Sweets, stationery, toys to fill the cone
Preparation:
1- Draw an arc of 70° and 70cm of radius using your pencil and your rope as a compass
Make a mark at 60°.
2- Cut your arc until the 70° mark. Roll several times the paper to give it the shape of a cone. Be careful to the tip it’s fragile.
3- Apply glue or tape in the space between the 60° mark and the 70° mark.
4- Decorate your cone with your decorations. For this year I printed some logo of the Bern football club and letters to write YB forever which is the slogan of the club.
5- Glue the tissue paper on the inside on the cone all around. I usually glue around 2 cm high of tissue paper.
6- Fill the cone.
7- Make a nice bow with the ribbon around the tissue paper.
Now it's your turn to create the prettiest schultüte, let your inspiration flow and have fun !
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