I saw this idea all over blog-land last summer, but I never attempted it with my boys until a couple of days ago. Over the course of about a day and a half, I froze a bunch of their little plastic toys in layers into a big block of ice. The goal was to have the boys excavate their toys from the ice using some small kitchen utensils (I was thinking that a meat tenderizer mallet and maybe some spoons and butter knives would have been great)...
I set the ice block on the back patio, and Sawyer grabbed his little plastic hammer, ready to get to work. I already knew that his flimsy little hammer wouldn't do the trick, so I went inside to quickly search for some of those handy kitchen utensils to use...
BUT...Sutton had an idea of his own...
...Two croquet mallets and thirty seconds later...
...our ice block was completely obliterated (along with a few of the toys inside. Sorry, poor little army man and now tail-less monkey)!
It was at this point that I thought back to last summer and suddenly realized that all of those masses of adorable blog posts about how this creative task kept their kids quiet and entertained for HOURS were all posted by moms of GIRLS!
3 comments:
Haha! I love it! (and I think my GIRLS would have been just as eager to tear into that ice block)
Thanks so much for linking up to my Summer Fun party.
Laura @ Come Together Kids
this would be fun to add to a kiddie pool on a hot day....(((sigh))) too bad my kids are a little big for that...maybe I will make one for the big pool anyway!!
Oh my goodness! My son (and daughters) will love this! I like the idea of floating them in the pool too - just be careful that no one starts throwing the blocks - OUCH! Thanks for posting!
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