Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Excavating Toys from Ice

Excavating toys from ice is one of our favorite Spring/Summer activities, and we do it often!


To prepare this activity, I filled a plastic container with small toys, marbles, and gems and then filled it with water.  I put the container in the freezer and forgot about it for at least a month (that always happens!).


 I finally remembered the container was there (when I was searching the freezer for something to cook), so I dumped the ice block on a pan and gave it to the girls along with salt, water droppers, a hammer, spoons, dull children's knives, and a cup of water.



We all worked together to get the toys out of the ice, and it was tons of fun...as usual!

5 comments:

  1. Fabulous idea. So easy and yet so engaging! Love that you add salt as a tool for dislodging the toys! Renee

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  2. Oh my! I love this idea!!! A couple of friends and I are running a camp for a week this summer and we will need to include this!!

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  3. So funny...we just did this last night!

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  4. They look hard at work! How fun! Thanks for sharing:)

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  5. Anastasia@healthymamainfo.comMay 3, 2012 at 10:08 PM

    I've the same thing with my kids one time. They loved it! It has to be very hot out though, otherwise little fingers will freeze.

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