bigideasforlittlepeople

I found a blog  (Play create explore) by a fantastic mom who shares her brilliant and creative ideas with others. While some ideas never really work, here is one that people are raving about.  I tried her ice-cream dough recipe yesterday and the kiddies (boys and girls alike) just couldn’t get enough of it!

NB Just to note: it’s NOT edible so watch out with the littlies!

It’s a ratio of 1:2 parts conditioner (the cheapest you can find) to corn flour (good ol’ Maizena here in SA).  Add a little more corn flour if the children don’t like the stickness.  We used vanilla essence to make it smell more like ice-cream.  Use the recipe and let the kids help you make the dough, a great sequencing and listening activity.

While we really liked the ice-cream look of the dough, I didn’t have cone moulds as described in the original post, so we used cupcake papers.  This is how we adapted the activity to make it more focused on an asymmetrical bilateral integration activity for the older kids:

1.  Scoop out some “ice-cream” using an ice-cream scoop.

2.  Use a spoon in the non-dominant hand to rotate and lift the ball of “ice-cream” out of the scoop.

3.  Use both hands (and utensils) to carefully place it into the cupcake paper.

And it keeps in an airtight container for a while.  Have fun!