Kool-aid ice bowling

We love to play with ice and so we made Kool-Aid ice balls. Fun for summer play and a great way to stay cool.

All you need is balloons, kool-aid packets, water and a freezer. Then can use pins or plastic cups for the bowling pins. What we used was plastic pins from our Little Tikes bowling set.

Hours of fun and if you place paper down to make an alley then you can have some cool painting as well.

This activity is great for fine motor skills, eye hand coordination and fun way to get moving. Below are a couple other fun games we have done be sure to check them out.

Monster Dice

Squirt Game

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Ice goop fun

With summer in the air and July 4th coming soon, we took out the goop today and played with our kool-aid ice and goop.

Fun and super inexpensive sensory play for kids of all ages, plus it will keep you cool playing with ice.

How to make GOOP. Then just add kool-aid ice.

Sorry my camera battery needed to be charged will post pictures when we play again. Cause this was a fun activity the kids loved it.

Be sure to check out the  Scented Goop play as well. Also, all the fun things you can do with Kool-Aid.

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Kool-Aid Ice boats

Fun way to stay cool this summer and have fun playing. Make some fun kool-aid ice boats and play for hours, in the pool or make your own stream.

All you need is some kool-aid packets, ice trays or even small bowls to make bigger boats. Then place sticks or straws in them to freeze and add the sails once the water is frozen.

The to make your stream just get some aluminum foil and add water. We added some rocks to ours. (You can build it however you want)

The kids had fun using their water squirt toys, filling the stream and melting the ice. Fun way to play and stay cool in the hot summer weather.

Ice is fun to play with and there is so many different fun ways to play with it. Be sure to check out some of the other fun ways we have played.

Erupting kool-aid ice

Alphabet ice learning

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Erupting Kool-Aid ice science and art

The kids love to explore and create. I froze 2 blocks of ice for them to play and experiment with since we have had some night days outside.

This is a simple and fun experiment project for kids of multiple ages. I filled 2 square containers up with water and placed int he freeze overnight.

Then just collected different materials for Jake and Cate to explore with. You can use whatever you want. Listed below are what we used.

Materials:

Ice block

Salt

Baking soda

Kool-aid packets

Spray bottles with vinegar

Baby oil

(all the materials can be bought at the Dollar Tree and are very inexpensive)

First the kids poured kool-aid and baking soda on the ice to see if it would bubble and fizz. It did. Then they mixed colors and explored. Poured salt in the block and Jake thought that was neat cause it held the color more on the ice.

After they explored a little I gave them paint brushes and they painted their ice and explored some more. I love how simple this project is and the kids sat still for over a hour doing this.

Great way to have fun on a hot day, along with enjoying science and art play.

We love to do all kinds of fun hands on play with Kool-Aid.

Below are some of our favorite hands on science play, be sure to check them out.

Rainbow science

Fizzing goop

Fizzing sidewalk paint

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Dinosaur Ice Excavation

We got these fun dinosaur fossils from Micheal's Dinosaur Skulls Tube, by Safari LTD for $3.99 on clearance so I picked up a couple. You can order them online if you don't have a Micheal's near but will pay more for them. 

I got large balloons and placed the skulls in then and filled with water to freeze them to make Ice Eggs. Then the kids would break open the ice to get the dinosaur skulls and baby dinosaurs.

Materials:

Dinosaur toys

Balloons

Water

Freezer

Bin for the ice when frozen

Excavating Tools(we used a wooden hammers, screw drivers and goggles) Can purchase all of them for $1.00 at Dollar Tree)

You can do this several ways:

Make a block of ice with toys inside

Make frozen balloons like we did

Make a bucket of ice... here is one we did over the summer Pirate ice treasure

Different excavating tools you can use as well are an old tooth brush, spray bottles(with warm water), shovels, spoons, salt.

This is a fun activity along with great for building fine motor skills and eye/hand coordination.

Jake really loved doing this with the wooden hammer and screwdriver.

It was little hard for Cate.

Loved all of Jake's face expressions, you can really tell he enjoyed this.

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Kids ice art science

We have been waiting for cold temps to do a freezing project like we did last year. Well last night was our lucky night we had temps in the teens. So we gathered some fruit from the kitchen and cut it up.

"J" started putting it in the aluminum pan and said, "Mom we can make a rainbow". So that is what we did.

Materials:

Orange

Lemon

Lime

Blueberries

Cranberries

Water

Rope

Aluminum pan (disposable)

This project is fun for kids and also teaches them about floating, sinking and freezing. When placing the fruit in the pan you can talk about what fruits you think would sink and what ones would float when adding water. Then ask why?

"J" loves doing science projects. Last year we did an ice art as well be sure to check it out.

"J" was so excited about his rainbow ice art.

If your kids like to do science be sure to check out some of our other fun things we have done.

Magic snowballs

Glow erupting snowballs

Fizzing and bubbling goop

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Exploring colors sensory play

Today J said , "Mom I want to do a project, like color mixing."  I needed to make some ice cube for some ice play they like to do during the week when it is hot. So he helped.

I took out water, food coloring, and we added some of the snow cone flavor as well, cause J wanted them to taste good if he wanted to eat some....kids too funny.

Who would have thought that this could entertain a kid for 45 min. He used the syringe and the dropper(great for fine motor skills). Mixed colors together, then added some flavor. It was like he had his own little experiment shop going on.

After he was done we placed in the freezer and let them freeze during nap time.



No only is this a great fine motor and eye/hand coordination project for kids, but also great for learning color mixture.

Be sure to check out the other fun things we do with color mixing.

Kool-aid fun

Ice art fun

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Alphabet Ice sensory play

J and C love the ice sensory play. So to add a little education to the fun play I took our alphabet magnets and placed then in ice trays with water and vinegar mix, then froze them to make ice.

Then I took them out the next day and set up a fun alphabet sensory play. Took some of the other alphabet toys we had and placed all around the table and added the ice cubes to it.

Then the kids added salt, water, vinegar and baking soda to the ice to get the letters out of the ice.

When they got the letters out of the ice we matched the upper and lower case letters together.


Materials:
Magnet letters(Dollar Tree) or any little letters you want to place in the ice.
Salt
Baking soda
Vinegar
Ice trays

This is a great fine motor skill along with eye/hand coordination for kids. Then they are playing as well as learning the letter reorganization.

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Dinosaur sensory volcano fun

J loves making volcano's and mixing the vinegar and baking soda together to watch it bubble. So I set up a dinosaur sensory table with J's toy dinosaur's.

Made sand with salt and brown paint, added rocks, bowl of baking soda, blue vinegar water for the lake and then colored vinegar ice cube's I saw on http://www.thegoldengleam.com. The kiddos had fun playing.

I loved how C got into it and when she mixed the vinegar and baking soda together she would say,"WOOOOW" it was too cute.

Materials:
salt and paint (makes the brown sand)
play rocks
dinosaur
made the volcano out of modeling clay
food coloring
vinegar

This is a good sensory play for mixing things to make science.

If you like sensory play be sure to check out some of the other fun things we have done.

Alphabet treasure learning

Make your own snow sensory

Make your own glow sand

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Pirate sensory treasure ice fun

It was a HOT day out and J wanted to play on the deck while sister was napping, so what better way to stay cool then to be playing with ice. I set up a pirate sensory table.

J is all into pirates and loves the show Jake and the Neverland Pirates. So I buried treasure in the ice and had him find them.

We used baking soda and vinegar to try and melt the ice, then he used his hammer, after that he went to the water hose.

Materials:
Ice
Treasure(we used necklaces, rings, coins, shells)

If your kids are into Pirates make sure you check out our other fun Pirate Theme fun.
Pirate Ocean Senory Play  , Make your own treasure box , Pirate Bath Fun


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Explore with ice

 

It was a HOT day and so I thought it would be fun to play with ice and water. We did it during Winter, the kids loved it but didn't play with the water since it was cold. This time we changed it up a little we used baby oil, salt and I also filled the water balloons with water beads.

J had alot of fun. This is a great science activity and the kids love it.

Materials:
Water balloons frozen to make ice balls
Food coloring or you can use Kool-Aid packets(for a fun smell)
Baby oil
Water
Salt

All you need to do is let the kids explore to see what happens with the different ingredients when poured on the ice.

 

We also had fun exploring with sprinkling Kool-Aid on the ice as well. Gave it a fun smell when exploring.

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