My kids really like to play with ice. They especially love it when it's a hot day! Even in the middle of winter, they still like playing with ice. It keeps them busy for a long time and they get to discover new ideas. Playing with ice is a great sensory activity. They are feeling different temperatures and discovering how ice and water are related. So many great discussions can happen while playing! To prepare the activity, I filled a large bowl of water along with colorful craft items … [Read more...]
Patriotic Ice Activity
4th of July is just around the corner and I've got an easy and FUN patriotic activity for your little ones to do! This patriotic ice activity is a neat science activity and will keep your children cool on a hot summer day! Here's what you need: salt plastic baggie food coloring ice block tray Begin by freezing water into an ice block. Put salt into a baggie, drop in a few drops of food coloring in, close the bag, and shake until the salt is colored. After the ice is frozen, … [Read more...]
Ice Cube Sculptures
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! 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. Once they were frozen, I placed them all in a bowl. Next, I gave them to my 5 year old to build with it. … [Read more...]
Dinosaur Ice Eggs
We are so excited this week to learn about dinosaurs!! Both boys were dinosaurs for Halloween and they absolutely love these creatures. Since Troy has a lot of questions about dinos, I thought we'd take this week to do some activities about them and also learn some new things along the way! Today I'm sharing a really fun and easy sensory activity--Dino Ice Eggs. Here's what you need: *water balloons *mini dinosaurs (found at Walmart in party section) Take a dinosaur (not ones with … [Read more...]
