OVERVIEW
Prep time: 2 minutes
Difficulty: Easy Peasy
Estimated Cost: 20 AED
Mess level:
Age: 2 plus
What you need
Wooden sticks
Ice tray
Water
Cornflower
Food colouring
Instructions
Mix cornflower and water to make some colored ice cubes and add stick, freeze and then allow your little ones to paint their imagination on a paper.
Notes
The ice paints work really well on kitchen foil, as the melting paint blocks feel satisfyingly slippy and slidey as they melt.
Benefits:
It gives children the opportunity to explore colour mixing, patterns and feel the texture of the slippery, cold, wet paint.
You can also talk about the science behind ice - discuss changes that happen and why. This activity is also great for developing fine motor and gross motor skills and control
Ways to adapt:
You can use this idea of frozen paint to explore color mixing. Make blue, red, and yellow ice cubes, and observe which colors are created as they melt and mingle.
You can even try creating ice sculptures. Freeze larger blocks of colored ice and use them to build upwards, creating tall structures.
Mix in glitter to make glitter paint.
Add other objects to freeze.