The kids in our street were fascinated by a puddle that had turned to ice. My daughter and her friend tried to think of some icy games.
I have a star shaped ice cube maker and I let them fill it with orange juice. When it was set they both popped the orange ice cubes in their mouths and said, ‘Eurgh.’ Unfortunately they’d used undiluted orange squash.
They tried to make icicles outside too, pouring water from a tree branch, and leaving bottles of water outside to see if they’d freeze in the night. It’s warmer today so it didn’t work but it was a good try!
Another thing you can do with ice is to make a frozen hand. I do this when we have a Halloween party. Fill a rubber glove with water and put it in the freezer. You can use food colouring too if you like. When you unwrap the ice-glove you have a hand made of ice. The fingers sometimes fall off as you unwrap it, but I just say it’s a zombie’s hand. That can happen with zombies.
Another thing we do sometimes is make a board game with ice cubes as the playing pieces. We’ll draw a board with different sections showing what will happen to the ice if it lands there. We can have the hot water dunk, the salt sprinkle, the re-freeze, the hold-in-your-hand. You can use your imagination to come up with squares showing what will happen to the ice. One of the squares is usually the ‘down your back’ and no one wants to land there! The little ice cubes will circle the board, just throw a dice to move them, the last ice cube standing after all this ice cube torture will be the winner.
There’s lots of fun to be had with ice. Unless you land on a ‘down your back’ square, that’s no fun at all!
