Our Tuesday Take-n-Make Craft for July 20th
For this craft, we have included several objects of different colors and textures. Just freeze the objects in water, and take outside for cool sensory play! Or, to prevent mess and stay inside where it is cool, you can put everything on a cookie sheet or tray to keep things organized.
There are several ways you can expand on this project to make it unique.
First is how you freeze the objects. You can put individual objects in water in ice cube trays, or freeze them all together in one giant cube.
You can also add your own objects to the mix. Have your kids create a story with the objects as you put them in. They get to be the hero and rescue them when it is time to melt them out!
You could mix baking soda in with the water (50/50) before freezing and then when you take it out, spray vinegar on the ice to fizz as it melts. This leads into the next way to mix it up; how you play! You can chip away at the ice, use a spoon of salt ( we included “magic” salt mixed with glitter) to see how it melts the ice, mix warm water with food coloring to drip or spoon onto it and create pretty colors. The sky is the limit on this one! Have fun and stay cool!
So if you are doing this craft on your own, you just need your objects to freeze, water, a container to freeze them in, a spoon and tray, salt, and any of the add-ons mentioned above!
