My plans of posting at-home summer activities quickly got derailed in early June when Isaac and Emma started swimming lessons. This week marked their fifth week of survival swimming lessons, and they are both doing a great job. I can't wait to post a video of each of them doing their survival skills in the water. But, driving to swimming lessons four days a week has definitely shown me that I am not ready (and maybe I'll never be!) for extra-curricular activities on a regular basis...whew! I think I could drive the route to swimming lessons in my sleep! :) For now, I'll stick with at-home activities...our latest at-home summer activity was a jumbo ice cube with frozen animals.
I filled a Rubbermaid dishpan from Walmart with half-full and threw in as many plastic animals as I could find. I filled the second half of the dishpan the following day and added more animals. This has been in our freezer since the first week of June, and David kept teasing me if I'd ever let Isaac play with it. :)
ready...set...go!
Isaac was so excited to use his daddy's rubber mallet and made a big point that it was only for big kids, not for babies like Emma. :)
Isaac decided to taste the ice right away...and, of course, Emma joined in.
Isaac had even more fun once we tipped the dishpan over and the jumbo ice cube fell out. He had so much fun smashing it apart with his mallet. I showed him how to quickly melt the ice around the animals by warming it in your hands...since even the Texas sun doesn't melt things fast enough for this boy. :)
Later, Isaac put the smaller pieces of ice, which we called icebergs, into the water table. Isaac and Emma played with the melting icebergs for a long time.
This little cutie started pointing at birds while we were at the beach. :)
This activity was so easy and was worth nearly an hour of fun play!
Thanks to Crumbbums for originally posting this idea!
What a great idea! I'll have to try this.
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