The water table was then filled with the entire contents on our ice cube tray. Since JDaniel’s water table has two sections, I asked him to try to put half the ice on each side. I had brought out an ice cream scoop to use during pretend play, but JDaniel decided that it would be great to scooping ice. It was a little tricky. The ice cubes kept slipping out of the scoop and into the ice tray. Eventually he was able to get ice on one side of the water table. I suggested we just dump the rest of the ice in and he agreed.
Apparently the ice cream parlor only serves great big bowl overflowing with ice cream. JDaniel served me a huge bowl of ice cream. I was afraid it would all topple back into the water table, but it made the short trip across the grass to my folding chair without even a large wobble.
When I bought the shaving cream for this project, I purchased two cans hoping JDaniel would like the activity. He loved this type of sensory play. I think we will be playing the ice cream game again.
Oh! I think children beyond preschool would love it too.
Here are some more outdoor preschool play activities:
Creating an Outdoor Water Center
What type of outdoor play do your preschool children enjoy?
Shaving cream play is always fun, and definitely good on a hot day! What a fun idea to add ice cubes to it! We just got a snow cone maker…I wonder how crushed ice would be mixed with it…We may need to try it out!
It sounds like you have great neighbors!
Great idea, my LO likes to play scientist with her water table. She loves her large magnifying glass, there is so much to explore
My daughter is a little older than JDaniel, but I think she’d love to play around in shaving cream “ice cream”! SO much fun!! –Lisa
We do shaving cream art on the table a lot, but haven’t taken it to this level. It looks fun!
So cool! My daughter would LOVE this. I admit I thought you had him playing with “real” ice cream before I read this.
That is such a fun idea! We are needing some activities to keep the summer momentum going 😉
What a fun idea 🙂 thank you so much for sharing :)x
That is awesome! I bet he had a blast! Sensory play is so much fun! My daughter would really love this one! I just need to get one of those tables to keep it all contained. Lol.
My kids did this as daycare and loved it!!
How fun! My kids would love to play with this!
That looks like so much fun!!!! Our children would love to play in that:)
how fun. we are going to have to try this out 😉
That sounds great! It might cost more, but the shaving creams geared toward woman will have pretty colors and scents to pretend there are different flavors!
This is such a fun combination. Ice and shaving cream into ice cream shop – I never thought of that! My kids would love it! I might have to use this idea over the summer
Wow wee what fun. I wish it was warmer here already! Will definitely give it a try later in the year!
What a fun idea!