Ice Activities for Kids

July 27, 2011 by 10 Comments

Ice is a necessary outdoor play ingredient in Texas summers. Temps haven’t dipped below 100 this week.

Ice Play

Solid frozen water is my preschooler’s friend.  They can drop cubes, watch ice melt on their chalk drawings, chomp on cubes, throw them down their shirts. Pretend cook, stirring icy slivers.  Here are several ways that others have used ice in their play.
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Icy Games

Terri, and her girls at My Creative Family, explored ice facts for kids as they filled glasses of water and then added ice cubes until the water overflowed.  What a great way to bring math alive.

Cardboard boxes make some of the best toys!  These boys mixed their play between cardboard boxes, tape, tubs and of course ice in this open-ended ice activity.

This gal tie dyed her fabric with ice cubes of paint for a fun kids craft.   I bet these would make great colorful summer napkins!

I love how neat and clean this ice craft for kids looks.  They used koolaid to create their cubes of paint.  In addition to the block painting she also made flowers.

This post was my inspiration for this post.  Artful Parent froze a big block of ice, sprinkled salt on it to speed up the melting and then added food coloring to heighten the effect.  I love this colorful ice science experiment.

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Comments

  1. Terri says:
    July 27, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    Thanks for featuring me this week! I love linking up and really enjoy all the great ideas I find!

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  2. Michael says:
    July 31, 2011 at 9:26 am

    Great !! brilliant ideas for games with kids… specially when you are (I am) homeschooling at home :)

    Thank you for a very useful and educative post dear.

    How To Arrange Homeschool Field Trips

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  3. Lee says:
    July 31, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    Lovely ice tips, if there is one game to play in this hot season, it should be with ice :-)

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  4. Angela says:
    August 3, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    I love this!!! I just sent it to a blogging friend who has a young one. I think even my older ones would like this.

    We are in Texas and it is sooooo hot it’s just ridiculous! I’ve been grumbling about it all week.

    I’m going to tweet this post and add it to my FB page. Love it

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  5. Happy Home Fairy says:
    August 5, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    How fun! What ‘cool’ ideas! :-) I’d love for you to check out the Ice post I posted last week! Who would have thought all the fun a Happy Home could have with some ice cubes?

    http://happyhomefairy.com/2011/07/28/ice-ice-baby/

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  6. Teri Sibenaller says:
    August 7, 2011 at 8:29 am

    We also made ice crayons by using a longated, cylinder ice tray from the dollar store for the infants to have a better grasp on ice coloring. This is such a fun project and glad to see so many allowing students to have fun!

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  7. Tanya Anurag says:
    August 8, 2011 at 2:19 am

    These are such nice ideas. I could not have thought of any such thing to do!! Thanks for sharing.

    I am hosting my first link-up party – Tea Time Thursdays @ Kreative Korner. Would be glad to see some of your awesome posts there. Hope to see you at the party.

    http://tanyaanurag.blogspot.com/2011/08/celebrating-one-party-time.html

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  8. audra says:
    August 8, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    The look and sound delish!! I’d love for you to link up at my Tuesday Tutorials link party! I’ll be hosting one every Tuesday, the link is open now :) Hope to see you there!

    http://www.thekurtzcorner.com/2011/08/tuesday-tutorials-link-party-1.html

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  9. creativejewishmom/sara says:
    August 11, 2011 at 9:08 am

    thanks for all your great contributions to craft schooling Sunday!

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