Saturday, May 19, 2012

Coloured Sand Ice Cream Shop - Pretend Play

We often incorporate food colouring in the sandpit or at the beach (see our coloured sandcastle post here) but today we used coloured sand for some pretend play.
This activity was so easy to create and the girls enjoyed hours of fun with it!

WE USED:

* sand pit
* food colouring
* bowls and spoons
* water
The coloured sand was made by putting scoops of sandpit sand in a bowl, adding food colouring and then mixing in water until we had the consistency we were after.

The girls chose their own ice cream 'flavours' for their shop.

We made a sign to go on the front of the sandpit. I adore the names the girls came up with for their ice creams (Love Hearty Mint needs to be trademarked I think ;D).


Yum, one blueberry sand cone.

Not only was this fun but the girls ended up getting very creative with their concoctions and imaginary play scenes, using conker nuts and leaves as money and using other moulds from the sandpit to make cakes and 'desserts'.
There was a lot of great fine motor practice in there for Squeak as well with all that scooping!


14 comments:

  1. What a great idea! Pinning this!

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  2. So glad I found your blog - I love your ideas to use with my own kids and with my kindergarten students!

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    1. Thank you for your kind comment, I'm so glad you enjoy our posts! Stop by our FaceBook page anytime to share photos or say hi.

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  3. Oh neat! This looks like so much fun! I am pinning this!

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  4. Absolutely awesome idea!! I'm pinning this one!

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  5. wow! I am so glad I found out your blog today! It's amazing!!! My tree year old son is in bed right now but I know what we will be doing tomorrow. Thank you very much for sharing al your great ideas!!!
    Merula from Holland.

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    1. Hope your little boy had a great time Merula!

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  6. Excelente idea!!!!

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  7. I started following your blog because of this. What a great idea!

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  8. so cute love the idea! could you use regular sand?

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    1. Hi Hailey, any sand will work, we just used our sandpit as it was what we had here.

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  9. super duper rika thats awesome man
    i really want to do that!!! that is awesome and we have all the ingredients for it!
    that look so fun! thanks for sharing that awesome idea!

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