Ice, Ice, Baby!

Here in the desert, the temperature is supposed to hit triple digits this week, and the thought of playing outside becomes unbearable; how to spend time outside and not melt away?

 Play with ice!

Ice is cold, and self cleaning. It melts and then eventually just dries - no clean up!

Suggestions for ice play:

• Dump a bag of ice into a bin, add water and scoops

• Freeze colored water (use food coloring or liquid watercolor, this might stain...) and use to paint on sidewalk

• Freeze colored water and explore color mixing

• Fill a variety of containers with water and freeze - use resulting ice to create structures

• Freeze items inside ice (toy dinoauars, marbles, cars, etc.) and challenge your kiddos to remove the items from the ice without braking the ice

• Rock salt and ice is fun

• Letter practice - draw letters on sidewalk and trace with ice

• Contest: Who can hold ice the longest?

These are but a few things to do with ice, one of the best summer play items in the desert!

Enjoy!!