Fun with Ice!

So I saw this awesome ice idea at Happy Little Munchkins and thought to myself, "Oh we could do that."

We have been talking about winter, colder weather, snow and ice lately. So this was perfect.

So I pulled out a muffin tin, 12 small toys/objects and water. I was just about ready to slip them in the freezer when I realized had made one big mistake by pulling the toys/items myself without consulting JP. He didn't like the objects I was about to freeze, so I revamped and I asked for his assistance. He then picked the objects to freeze and was a much happier camper. The next morning he was so excited and ready to check on the frozen treasures. So at 8am this is what we did:

First, I emptied the ice treasures into an empty bin.

I gave the boys a bowl with warm water, measuring cups, spoons, and medicine droppers to explore with. I challenged them to try to get the objects out. First they hit the ice cubes with spoons to no avail. Then they used the medicine droppers and quickly realized that wasn't enough water.

JP learning quickly that by putting the ice cube into the warm water it would loosen the object and come out easily. I know you can't really see his face in this picture, but he is delighted at his discovery!

Then they realized that the warm water becomes cool quickly, so they asked me to replace it with more warm water. I loved watching them learn and explore on their own! At one time JP said, "This is SO fun!"

CA began to transfer the ice cubes from the large bin into the bowl.

Then leave it to this adventurous boy to drink the ice cold water!!!

We used a lot of new vocabulary such as: ice, cold, melt, warm, and freeze.
Overall this was a fun, free, amazing learning experiment!

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