ABC Countdown to the Last Day of School: Letter Ii is for Ice Cream Day

by Megan Bacchus · May 28, 2024

Letter Ii is for Ice Cream Day!

It’s Ice Cream Day! Let’s find out how ice cream is made.

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How to Make Ice Cream

Let’s make ice cream! First we’ll watch this video about how to do it. Then we’ll read the recipe. It has the instructions we need to know how much of each ingredient to add.

Recipes are a type of procedural writing. People write procedures tell us how to do something, like make a recipe. You might learn how to do something by reading about it. Let’s read to learn how to make ice cream.

Stories about Ice Cream:

Online Games for Ice Cream Day

Practice adding and scoop up some yummy treats!

Here’s a game you can play to make your own ice cream!

Let’s Practice the Letter Ii!

Here are ten more delightful and engaging ideas for celebrating Ice Cream Day in Kindergarten:

Make Your Own Ice Cream: Involve the children in making simple homemade ice cream using ziplock bags. Combine milk, sugar, and vanilla in a small bag, place it in a larger bag filled with ice and salt, and shake until it turns into ice cream. This is a fun science experiment and a tasty treat!
Ice Cream Tasting Station: Set up a tasting station with a variety of ice cream flavors. Provide small samples for children to taste and compare. Discuss the different flavors and ask them to vote for their favorite.
Ice Cream Cone Craft: Provide materials like construction paper, pom-poms, and glue for children to create their own ice cream cone crafts. They can stack different “scoops” of colored paper and decorate them with glitter and stickers.
Ice Cream Parlor Dramatic Play: Set up a dramatic play area as an ice cream parlor with play money, menus, and pretend ice cream scoops. Children can take turns being customers and ice cream servers.
Ice Cream Sundae Bar: Create a sundae bar with various toppings like sprinkles, chocolate chips, fruit, and whipped cream. Let the children assemble their own ice cream sundaes with their favorite toppings.
Ice Cream Storytime: Read books about ice cream, such as “Should I Share My Ice Cream?” by Mo Willems or “Curious George Goes to an Ice Cream Shop” by Margret & H.A. Rey. Discuss the stories and the characters’ adventures with ice cream.
Ice Cream Cone Relay Race: Organize a relay race where children balance a small ball or beanbag on a cone (made from a paper cone or real cone). They must carefully walk from one point to another without dropping their “ice cream.”
Ice Cream Math: Incorporate ice cream-themed math activities, such as counting scoops, sorting different colored scoops, or simple addition and subtraction problems using ice cream images.
Ice Cream Songs and Rhymes: Sing ice cream-themed songs and rhymes like “Do You Know the Ice Cream Man?” to the tune of “Do You Know the Muffin Man?” Engage the children in singing and moving along to the music.
Ice Cream Painting: Use shaving cream mixed with a bit of glue and food coloring to create “ice cream” paint. Children can use this fluffy mixture to paint ice cream cones on paper, adding a sensory element to their art project.