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 Excavation Activity
My kids really like to play with ice. They especially love it when it's a hot day! Even though it's 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. Today's play activity is an ice excavation. To prepare the activity, I filled a large bowl of water along with colorful craft items from around the house. I put in beads, confetti, water beads, pipe cleaners, ribbon robe, and more! Then I put it in the freezer … [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...]