Make-It Topic: Ice Cream

Imaginative:

• Set up an ice cream shop using paper folded into cones and pompoms for ice cream, use ice cream scoops have hats for the children to wear
• Have an ice cream making area, allow the children to use different size cans to roll back and forth

Language:

• Read “Ice Cream” by Elisha Cooper
• Read “Curious George Goes to the Ice Cream Shop”
• Make a flannel board story with music song
• Say the poem “I scream, you scream we all scream for Ice Cream”

Art:

• Sponge paint ice cream use different rounded sponges with a shape of the cone on the paper
• Use cotton balls and paint allow the children to make a sundae
• Use shaving cream and white glue to paint with
• Place different shapes out allow the children to glue shapes to make their own ice creams

Water/Sand:

• In the water table get an inexpensive bucket of ice cream allow the children to play in it
• Place ice cream scoops and candle crystals into the water table
• Place cone cups into the sand for pouring
• Place ice in the water table

Gross Motor:

• Place cotton balls on a table and have the children blow them around
• Place ice cream shapes out encourage the children do a leap frog jump onto the shapes
• Place a pool out allow the children to make themselves into a ice cream using whip cream have the hose handy

Science/Curiosity:

• Make ice cream
• Make root beer floats explain what is happening
• Make a favourite flavour graph
• Go outside and melt ice cream in a metal tin time how long it takes

Blocks:

• Place out blocks and characters encourage the children to build ice cream shops
• Place out large pompoms in the blocks with waffle blocks for building
  

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor:

• Have ice cream cone lacing
• Match the ice cream color file folder game
• Sorting ice cream flavors provide bowls of different sizes and colors of pompoms encourage the children to use ice cream scoops to sort the pompoms
• Make different colors of play dough allow the children to explore with it

Music:

• Sing the song 5 ice cream cones 
• Make an ice cream cone shaker

Quiet:

• Place out fluffy pillows with a sheet encourage the children to relax in the ice cream

Cooking:

• Make Ice Cream
• 1/2 cup whole milk, 1 tablespoons sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Rock salt

Ice Place the milk, sugar, and vanilla into a bag and seal

Seal this bag and then put it into a larger zip-log bag. Put rock salt and ice into the large bag. 

Let your children make ice cream by shaking and rolling the bag (It usually take between 5 and 10 minutes to make the ice cream.  

Alternative: You can also put the sealed bag, ice, and salt into a coffee or oats can and have your children kick, and shake the can to make ice cream

Field Trips:

• Go to Dairy Queen for a tour, they will allow the children to make their own ice cream cones for free
• Walk to the store and count the ice cream flavors