#11 - make an ice treasure

Jul 23

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, caleb isaiah, camera practice, clever toys, crafty, homemade toys, i heart my camera, memories, parenting, photography

This big bowl of ice (see instructions here) has been sitting in my freezer for about two weeks now. I completely forgot about it! I decided to pull it out this morning and get our excavating tools together. We mainly used salt and warm water with a few different brushes. And when I say salt, I mean like more salt that the Atlantic ocean. So if there was any ‘cost’ associated with this project, it would just be about 3/4 a container of salt! But two hours people. TWO HOURS my toddler played essentially by himself! Well worth a container of salt. We worked for about an hour digging out all of the treasures ‘buried’ in the ice, then he was content to dump water back and forth and stir it, etc for another good hour! I cleaned up all the junk that we had emptied out onto the deck during our cleaning process last weekend, put stuff in the storage building and the garbage. Finally, he had drenched himself in enough salt water that I felt he needed a bath!

I set this down and he came running over and plopped down to examine it

The salt could have been used a lot more sparingly had I had a shaker.  This was an empty spice container with LARGE holes in the top, so as you can see, it is really pouring out.

Almost to a treasure

We’ve acquired several now, I told you, that water has more salt than an ocean!

Water play never goes out of style

Comments

2 Responses to “#11 - make an ice treasure”

    Amber
    July 24th, 2008 3:29 pm

    I just love his froggy hop into bed britches. A slight improvement from the, what did you refer to them as, “bloomers?” you sported in your kiddie pics courtesy of Granny GoGo.

    Julie
    July 24th, 2008 7:39 pm

    What a fun project! I wonder if Daniel would be interested in something like this or if it’s too much work to keep his attention. I’ll have to come up with something!! I’m definitely going to keep this one in mind. Thanks for sharing!!!

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