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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
While thinking about what kind of ice cream to select, a little boy named Teddy dreams of a land where he would be the king of ice cream. (It may have been the paper crown the waiter brought over to him that became the daydream.)
Teddy’s kingdom has chocolate halls and mint chip ice cream walls. He is able to travel by rocket to an ice cream moon. Later he sails an ice cream sea and fishes for cherries and nuts. He relishes in the fact that everything in his land is his.
After exploring his ice cream kingdom, Teddy discovers that something is missing. He finds that he is all alone and that it would be better with somebody to share it.
When Teddy removes his crown, he finds he is back in the ice cream shop and the waiter is still waiting to take his order.
What does he select? He asks for a banana split with two spoons. One spoon for mom and one for him.
What did we do?
Ice Cream Making
Actually we made ice milk by putting milk and chocolate syrup into an old cottage cheese container. We strapped down the lid of the container and then placed it into an old coffee container. I added ice and salt around the cottage cheese container and then strapped down the coffee container lid.
We rolled it back and forth until JDaniel decided he was tired of rolling it. ( That was about 20 minutes.) We repeated the alphabet, practiced counting and reviewed nursery rhymes to get through the 20 minutes.
The container was then put into the freezer for a couple of hours.
Voila! We had homemade ice milk. JDaniel loves it.
Ice Cream Cone Balloon Game
I thought this wastebasket looked a little like an ice cream cone. We tried to get the balloon into the cone by tossing it, dropping it, and kicking it.
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I’ve always wanted to do the homemade ice cream thing. We just got a kit to do homemade cheese.
Can I confess….at the grocery store this week I bought FOUR different types of ice cream. They just had all these new flavors I wanted to try. Oops.
The book sounds very sweet! I will place it on the list!
Making the ice milk sounds fun too! Thanks for sharing and hosting!
Kerri
This is going on my list! I look forward to trying this meme!
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What a great blog. Enjoyed the homemade idea! Dropping by from the Blog Hop!
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Have a great day!
Definitely adding that book to hopefully find at our library…looks like such a cute, fun book!
now that sounds like a fun day!!!
we might have to try the balloon and bucket 🙂
Yum! What a fun way to make ice cream. I have only done it in a ziploc bag but that can be a very chilly experience!
what a fun story & an easy way to make ice cream too! I definitely have to jot this down!
Bernadette
What a fun book and activities for this time of year! I always loved making homemade ice cream. My parents have an ice cream machine, so we often get homemade ice cream there. I’ve also had good luck with the ziplock bag technique: http://livingmontessorinow.com/2010/06/14/activity-of-week-homemade-ice-cream-right-now-no-machine-required/ Deb @ LivingMontessoriNow.com
Ooh, I am impressed that your homemade icecream actually worked out. I saw so many blog posts and there was always something going on. Very tempting. Love the balloon activity too – balloons are very popular in the house, but we haven’t thought of catching them with baskets.
What a cute little book and what a great activity.
Shauna
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I had something different in mind for this book….we love it too. But, I really like the make your own ice cream activity. My kids would probably love doing that.