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10 Ways To Play With Ice

May 9, 2022 Paula

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Summer is definitely the best time to play with ice–so fun and refreshing! We have some really fun ice cube activities and ice ideas for hot weather summer play with a little freezing fun.

Learn and enjoy these fun 10 easy ways to play with ice with your kids!
Enjoy these 10 ways to play with ice tips this summer!

Gather the whole family and beat the summer heat with these fun and educational activities with ice that kids will surely love!

What a fun sensory play idea! In fact, using the cool temperature of ice in play activities can be a really fun way to introduce different textures, temperatures and experiences to sensory play.

Cool Ways to Play with Ice for Kids this Summer

1. FROZEN CHALK POPSICLES STICKS

Got some colorful leftover chalks from last semester’s school activities? Turn them into these colorful frozen chalk popsicle sticks by Reading Confetti!

Melt those colorful chalks, mold them on the popsicle sticks, freeze for a few minutes then voila! Colorful ice melt in the house! Awesome!

Create these easy and colorful popsicle chalks with your kids this summer!
Colorful chalk popsicle sticks for the win!

2. ICEY FLOATING BOATS

Ditch the traditional paper boats and make these exciting colorful icey floating boats by Reading Confetti with your kids this summer!

Get your kiddo’s little hand busy. Add some liquid coloring into your ice cubes before freezing it, top with these mini sticks, finished with some colorful art paper scraps, then you’re ready to sail. Fun!

Play these ice floating boats with your kids and be ready to get wet this summer!
Get ready to sail this summer with these icey colorful floating boats!

3. PLAY A COOL TREASURE HUNT IN ICE

Here’s an ice fun activity: ice excavation! Treasure hunts are not just in soils and grounds but also in ice! Try this treasure hunt in ice game by Rub Some Dirt with your kids this summer!

No pressure! All you need to do is collect and submerge in water their favorite toys, freeze for a few minutes, then start the hunt. Make sure to prepare prizes after, for their earned hard work. Awesome!

Help your kids rescue these toys as they free them on this freezing ice this summer!
Rescue these toys from the cold ice!

4. TRY PAINTING WITH ICE WITH YOUR KIDS

Try these painting with ice activity by Learn Play Imagine. It’s another great way to teach your kids with sensory activities this summer!

Have them choose from different liquid colorings before freezing the ice cubes and make them feel and touch the results! Who’d have thought ice painting could be this fun?

Get creative with your kids as you add colors to these ice cubes before freezing them this summer!
Painting with ice is fun for all ages!

5. ENJOY PAINTING ON ICE

Another painting on-ice activity by Housing a Forest this summer with your kids!

Do it the other way around – freeze the ice cubes first, be ready with your coloring art materials (food colouring will do) while waiting, then once you have the frozen ice cubes, paint it! Easy and much fun!

Create a magnificent art with your kids as you paint these ice cubes this summer!
Kids will really enjoy painting literally those ice cubes!

6. FIZZY ICE CUBES

Ready for an easy summer activity that leaves much creative play? Hide different treats, prizes, and or toys to your kids to hunt using these fizzy ice cubes by Fun A Day. Add different coloring liquids to your ice cubes before freezing them to add some spice. A fun activity for the whole family!

Hide those toys and prizes in these ice cubes and let your kids find them as their treat this summer!
Put your kids at work with these fizzy ice cubes hunt!

7. MAKE YOUR OWN ICE TRAINS!

This list of ideas to play with ice is so great for kids of different ages. If your kids are fond of trains then this train of ice activity by Plain Trains is for you! Grab those different sizes of mold trains you have and make an ice train out of it!

Don’t forget to put colors to add fun! Yay!

Collect different colors and sizes of ice trains with your kids this summer!
These different colors of ice train sets will cool your kid’s summer!

8. ENJOY COLORED ICE USING KOOL-AID

These kool-aid ice cubes by Learn Play Imagine will be a sure hit with your kids this summer! Add colors by playing with different flavors of kool-aid.

Be ready to lick these tasty kool -aid’s with your kids after. Fun!

Yummy kool-aid ice activity that the whole family will surely love!
Your little ones will definitely have fun playing these tasty ice cubes!

9. AWESOME STARS SHAPED TASTY ICE

Have fun with your star-shaped molds by trying out these stars-shaped tasty ice (unavailable) by Reading Confetti.

Aside from adding different colors, add taste to it with a small drop of their favorite lemonade, or an apple juice, or maybe a soda! Or you can use natural materials in making these tasty ice. Play with it and have fun! Yummy…

Enjoy these colorful star shaped molds ice cube with your kids this summer!

10. FUN AND EASY DINOSAUR ICE CUBE HUNT

Freeze your kid’s huge toy dinosaurs by Beauty Through Imperfection and let them rescue and hammer it out! Keep them busy and equipped while learning basic problem solving (on how to rescue the dinos) this summer by doing this activity.

A fun and easy way to enjoy the summer heat. Awesome!

Enjoy the dinosaur hunt with your your kids as you do this dinosaur hunt activity this summer!
What a smart way to make huge ice cubes with your kids!

MORE EASY AND FUN WAYS TO ENJOY ICE THIS SUMMER WITH YOUR KIDS FROM PLAY IDEAS

  • Be amazed with your kids as you checked out this ice cube mold that turns your water into a tiny Hogwarts castle here!
  • Grab your ice cube trays and pour some different colors on it to make and enjoy these colorful ice cubes!
  • Get ready to learn on these different ice experiments that you can enjoy these summer with your kids!
  • Kids of all ages will surely enjoy these spectacular indoor snow crafts and activities here.
  • Great for sensory learning for toddlers and preschoolers you can with these wacky ways to play with water beads.
  • Be wet and wild as you play along with these summer fun and activities with your kids!
  • Yummy homemade popsicles for the whole family to beat the heat.
Tag the whole family and enjoy these 10 ways to play with ice activities!
Go and try these 10 ways to play with ice with the whole family!

Which fun and easy ice cube activity are you doing with your kids this summer?

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