I is for ICE:Themed Activities

I have some cool ideas for you for the ICE themed activities!😎

Science:  Water forms: solid, liquid, gas.  Do experiments with melting ice, condensation, fog etc.

Sensory:  Ice sensory play.  Either freeze objects into ice or put out a bin with ice cubes and other toys or coloured waters to mix with them. Use warm water or salt to melt ice. Identify what is cold vs warm.

Gross Motor:  Go ice skating.  Practice glides and twirls on land.  Play Freeze Tag. Dance and when the music stops, freeze in place.

Fine Motor:  Make writing materials with food dye in water frozen into sticks and then draw with them on paper or outdoors on the sidewalk.  You can use juice too if you do not want full dyes.  

Building Structures:  Using salt you can stack ice cubes to make a tower.  You can get a big slab of ice and work on ice carving skills to make a structure too.

Snack: Ice cream making!

Cognitive:  Complete the ice cream colour matching game (https://mrprintables.com/printable-file-folder-games-ice-cream.html).  Count scoops of ice cream.

Music/Drama:  Do anything related to Disney's Frozen!

Self knowledge: I.C.E.- in case of emergency:  Do you know your full name? Address? School? Parent's names?  Phone number?  Practice saying and writing them.  If appropriate, discuss scenarios like what would they do if they got lost or saw somebody get hurt? What would you do? Make a plan.

The 'ICE' word family

spice (smell and try to identify different spices like cinnamon, cloves, coriander)

slice (slice of pie, cake, fractions, equal parts, pizza game, slice of lemon)

dice (naming the numbers, adding together, multiplying them, ordering them, playing games with dice)

gneiss ( a type of rock, use it to introduce to a study of rocks and minerals) (rhymes only -ice sound though!)

rice (sensory bin with rice and other items, dyeing rice and using it for crafts, playing chef)

mice (books and nursery rhymes with mice in them, mice and cheese game, building/completing a maze)

Hope you find some inspiration here for activities you and the child(ren) in your life can enjoy together!


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