Ice play provides a rich sensory experience for children to explore. There are so many wonderful creative ways to enjoy ice play, including science, art and maths activities. Here are some of our favourite ice play ideas, from some of our favourite bloggers. Click through on each of the links to discover some fantastic ice play ideas you can enjoy with your children this winter.
Above: sail some ice cube boats :: make colourful ice sculptures :: paint on ice cream :: go excavating for frozen treasure ::
make a frozen rainbow you can eat :: investigate dry ice :: mini ice hockey game :: freeze some bubbles
add ice to your sensory table :: add coloured ice cubes to your bath :: add colour and salt to make ice art
go ice fishing :: create ice decorations :: explore melting :: paint with popsicles
Super Sensory Invitations to Play
Ready for a whole year of exploring through the senses? Super Sensory Invitations to Play is a delightful resource that encourages your children to explore the five senses through the year, using a wide variety of sensory materials. It includes 52 invitations to play, linked to the festivals and seasons of the year, and including water, ice, dough, rice, paints, sand, sensory tubs, and more.
They are easy, simple, and fun ideas that you can use right now to give a multi-sensory boost to your play and learning. It comes with a printable recipe book featuring all our favourite recipes for play. Come and see more here.
Beautiful ideas! Loved the collages.
Stumbled it 🙂 Going to pin now…
Great ideas! Some I haven’t seen yet and definitely want to explore further! Thanks Cathy!
Lovely round up! I made the icey flowers this summer, it was a beautiful process!
Angelique
Wow, they are great! Science sparks is having ice week next week! I am very excited! xx
love all the ice play and thank you for including one of ours! We had so much fun with ice play this summer – I will be revisiting it this winter since we do not get snow so I am excited for these ideas shared.
All fabulous ideas! Thanks for linking to fun sparks!
We love doing Colorful Ice Cube Painting (https://theoutlawmom.com/2011/09/15/toddler-thursday-colorful-ice-cube-painting/)! Great round up – thanks 🙂
love these ideas, thanks for sharing
This is a great round up of ice activities! And so beautifully presented 🙂 I’m featuring it on my Kid’s Co-op Post coming out tomorrow (Thursday) 🙂 Thanks for sharing it.
Great roundup. I’ll be featuring it with the Kids Co-Op Friday. 🙂
Yes, yes, I love this post! So much fun to be had with frozen water
Nice projects!
Thanks for sharing.