Monday, August 29, 2011

Ice Cream Shoppe

We decided to switch gears,
And open up our own ice cream shoppe!
I chose this theme because that's all she's wanted to play lately,
So I decided to put a new spin on it,
And add some learning components as well.

I made some play dough:
If you want to make it colorful add 4 drops of food coloring.
I doubled it and put it on med. heat.
I stirred it until it was not gooey anymore.
And let it cool.
And we squished it together.
It was perfect!

I left our any color, because I wanted her to add her own color.
I let her use our ice cream scoop.

Then she used the markers to add some color.
Use markers you don't really care about,
because it dries them out.

Then I pulled out the piece de resistance:
An Ice Cream Cone!
(A real one.)
She loved stacking on the scoops,
And trying to eat the cone.
In the end I let her fill a different cone with marshmallows.

Even Baby H. liked playing with markers and play dough.

For our unit we also made ice cream,
And watched how Sub-Zero makes ice cream with nitrogen.

Here are the books we are reading this week:

Ice Cream Cones for Sale!

How Did that Get to my Table?
Ice Cream

Milk to Ice Cream

Curious George Goes to the Ice Cream Shop

Should I Share My Ice Cream?

What fun things have you done to learn about Ice Cream?

5 comments:

  1. We made homemade ice cream and played ice cream parlor when we had our ice cream week.

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  2. I love that you went with your daughter's interest and added a learning component! Those are great books to go along with your activities! Thanks for linking up with Montessori Monday. I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page.

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  3. Aaah how fun! What a great activity!!! Isn't an ice-cream shop simply the best!?!?

    Thank you for joining Kids Get Crafty! :-)

    Maggy

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Thanks for your great comments!