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Ice Cream Collage

Craft activities for Preschool and Early Years: Projects that help explore materials and properties...

 Ice Cream Collage:
Craft project for Children and Adults

A great craft activity for any of these Theme titles :- 
 Summer time  Beach  hot & cold or Opposites  The senses  Colours

You will Need
A Copy of the Ice Cream Template
 
CLICK HERE

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Use a variety of textured collage items that can represent the 
look, feel and texture of ice cream and the cone!

 ICECREAM
Cotton wool or similar
Poster Paint for mixing pastel ice cream shades
Small paper shreddings for creating texture to the icecream 
eg. Brown squares on green paint for mint choc chip icecream !!

 CONE
Garden string & twine cut into lengths and glues in a criss cross fashion over the cone
Brown paint
Waffle or textured paper
Hessian fabric


Lesson and Play Plan ideas ...
Use and expand on these ideas..
ICE CREAM Flavours

Raspberry Ripple
Chocolate & Fudge chunks
Minty 
Strawberry 
Lemon & Kiwi
Vanilla
Cherry

 What other flavours & combinations can be thought up?

 ICE CREAM Colours ~ use colours as an introduction to Fruit names!

Pink - Strawberry
Red - Cherry
Purple - Plums
Green - Apples, Grapes
Yellow - Lemon, Banana
Brown - Cocoa bean
White - Coconut
Orange - Orange, tangerine
Peach - Peach , Nectarine

 Descriptive language ~
Cold
icy
Chilly
Smooth
Tasty
Creamy
wet
Frosty
 What else can be added? 

 ICE CREAM Recipes 

What fruit could be used to make an Ice Cream
How to make ice cream
Measurments of ingredients
Tools and equipment that would be needed



 ROLE Play an Ice Cream parlour with Errol Eagle CLICK HERE

 Take a look In our Forums for lots more ideas that you can use this craft in ~ 
 
SUMMER  BEACH   THE SENSES   

 
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