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Ice Cube Sculptures

by Angela Thayer 3 Comments

Welcome to the first day of the 31 Days of Play series! I’m so excited to kick off the series with a fun building activity! In today’s activity, I’m going to show you how we built ice cube sculptures!

Ice Cube Sculptures

For this activity, we first made colored ice cubes. I just colored water with food coloring and poured it into the ice cube trays. Then I left them in the freezer overnight.

Making ice

Once they were frozen, I placed them all in a bowl.

colored ice

Next, I gave them to my 5 year old to build with it. The trick to getting them to stick together is to squirt a little warm water on the ice and then hold another ice cube onto it for 15-20 seconds. Then they will be stuck together!

The first time we tried it, we just placed the ice on a cookie sheet. The problem was that the ice got too warm and the sculptures fell apart.

failed ice sculpture

That led me to think that we needed something cold underneath to keep the sculptures together. So we started over and this time I froze a thin layer of ice on the cookie sheet.

Invitation to Play

It worked really well! I wanted to try this activity outside in the snow, like these ice sculptures, but we don’t have any snow right now! So the ice on the cookie sheet was the next best option.

building

Once again, we used a water dropper to squirt warm water onto the ice and then we held the ice cubes to each other until they stuck together.

ice sculpture

ice

Colored Ice Sculptures

You can make whatever you want with the ice cubes! That is what’s great about this activity…you get to be creative with your building!

final structure

I hope you’ll try out this easy play activity! If you want to print out directions for this activity, click here —> Ice Cube Sculptures

Have fun creating with your ice cubes! And if you are on twitter or instagram, use the hashtag #31DaysOfPlay to share your creations!

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Filed Under: Fun Kid Activities, Indoor Activities Tagged With: 31 days of play, ice

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  1. Mihaela says
    January 2, 2015 at 8:38 am

    Lots of icy fun! 🙂
    Mihaela recently posted…THE BEST KIDS ACTIVITIES POST OF 2014My Profile

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  2. Science Kiddo says
    January 23, 2015 at 6:19 am

    Such a great science activity! I am featuring this in an ice science round up tomorrow. Thank you for sharing! And thanks for linking up at STEM Saturday!
    Science Kiddo recently posted…Surface Tension | Drops of Water on a Coin + Free Printable!My Profile

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