Fun With Ice: Dinosaur Excavation Activity
August 22, 2012 in All Posts, Play, Toddler Activities
I’m always making pie crust promises here on the blog … I’ll show you this activity or that birthday party or this cake. This time I am NOT showing you what I promised (again), but I am going to share a super fun game we played for my son’s Dinosaur Themed Birthday Party this July. (No, his birthday is not in July - it’s a few months earlier, but we kind of, well *forgot* to get around to it).
I saw this really fun ice excavation activity at the kids’ preschool that the teachers set up using all kinds of wiggly sea creatures. The kids in the class loved it and I thought it was ingenious!
The coolest part was using warm water in a spray bottle to melt the creatures out of the ice.
Here’s how to set up this super cool ice excavation activity with your little ones:
My daughter attacked with a spray bottle of warm water I tinted blue with neon blue food coloring:
And my son scrubbed the dinosaurs free with a toothbrush:
My only tip: don’t use a real hammer!
Don’t worry, there were no serious injuries!
Have you tried this with other types of animals or objects? I’d love to do this again - please share your fun ideas in the comments!
LEARN! Fine motor skills, sensory play, science
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Like the addition of the hammer. I have never used one with our ice play before. Bonus: when my kids are done I can have them do some home repairs. Pinning this fun idea! Vicky from http://www.messforless.net
Such a good idea. Must file this one away on the to-do list!
We did these with magnet letters. I picked the letters of my kids names and they had fun trying to free them. Vicky from http://www.messforless.net
I did this as well with dino’s this summer. http://katescreativekitchen.blogspot.ca/2012/08/frozen-fun.html you could also do little farm animals, foam alphabet letters or numbers, plastic insects or bouncy balls!!
Thanks for the idea of the warm water bottle to help get things out.