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Mint Choc Chip Play Dough Ice Cream Recipe

May 29, 2013 by Anna Ranson

Make some Mint Choc Chip play dough for a fun, scented sensory pretend play time! Fantastic for using in role play ice cream parlour set ups, exploring with added extras and developing fine motor strength as they play.

Mint choc Chip Ice cream play dough

As you know we are passionate about all things play dough! Ever since Cakie was 1 we have been regularly making our own and have had so much fun experimenting with different flavours, colours, added extras and creative ways to use it in play! This week we had fun making up some different play dough ice cream flavours for some ice cream van role play (coming up soon!)

Invitation to play with mint choc chip play dough ice cream

The girls love to make play dough and can do most of it by themselves now, following our very easy, 4 minute no-cook recipe [adults only at the boiling water stage though!] This time we added green gel food colouring to the boiling water before we mixed it in, and then a few drops of peppermint essence at the kneading stage. They rolled the kneaded ball of dough into some green glitter and worked it in until it was evenly spread.

I cut lots of little squares to represent chocolate chips from brown craft foam and they added them to the dough to turn it into Mint Choc Chip ice cream for pretend play! We set it out with two rolled pieces of yellow craft foam (stuck along one edge) to represent cones, which they helped draw patterns onto with brown pens, more chocolate chips for decorating and some coffee scoops as an Invitation to Play together!

Recipe for mint choc chip play dough

They got stuck straight in and took orders for ice creams from all of their toys. Scooping into the soft dough was a great  fine and gross motor strengthening exercise and took a lot of concentration to form into a neat ball shape.

Scooping mint choc chip play dough ice cream

 

 

Cakie made ice cream signs to stick in our role play shop so that people would know what we were selling, then sold them for 5 gold coins each from our pirate treasure stash (we have a bazillion gold coins left over from Pop’s pirate party in the Spring!)

We have some more ice cream play dough flavours coming up next week so pop back and visit then!

Extend the play:

Try making menus and signs to place in a role play ice cream parlour for pretend play fun and learning

Add a range of other materials for making sprinkles and decorations, and ask the kids to design their own

Invent some brand new flavours and ask the kids to come up with wonderful names for them!

Mint Choc Chip Playdough Ice Cream

 

What they are learning as they play:

maths: counting out cupfuls accurately when following a recipe

creativity: using imaginations to make one object represent another in play, creating role-play scenarios

physical: fine and gross motor development through pinching, squeezing, twisting, rolling, flattening and scooping play dough with hands and added tools

Cakie: 4.9

Pop: 3.2

Bean: 15 mos

A-Z of play dough recipes and activities for kids

See our A-Z of play dough recipes and activities here for a huge list of fun flavours, recipes and ways to play!

Read all about the benefits of playing with play dough here, and get some inspiration for building a play dough tool kit!

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Filed Under: Activities, Age, Create, Creativity, Dramatic Play, Fine Motor Development, Invitations to Play, Learn, Make, Motor Skills, Play, Play Prompts, Play Recipes, Playdough, Preschooler, Role Play, Scented Play, School Age, Sensory, Toddler Tagged With: Ice Cream, Play Dough, Play Recipe, Sensory Play

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Comments

  1. Rachel Davison says

    May 30, 2013 at 4:22 am

    This looks so inviting to play! I can’t wait to try this with my little one at home!

  2. Emma says

    May 30, 2013 at 7:43 am

    oh Anna. that looks amazing!

  3. Veens says

    May 31, 2013 at 6:38 am

    They look Yummy! This is such a fabulous idea. Aarya would like this 🙂 Pinning it.

  4. Pauline, Lessons Learnt Journal says

    June 10, 2013 at 1:34 pm

    Hi Anna,

    I’m publishing an extraordinary play dough post and it would not be fit for publication if it didn’t include a post from the Queen of Play Dough :). Love your work, and will be including this post as part of my roundup.

    xo P

  5. Squirrelflight2426 says

    August 17, 2013 at 12:17 am

    Love,love,love!!

  6. deborah says

    October 1, 2013 at 11:19 pm

    very disappointing to see a male porn gaming site ad here, as i browse with my kids.

    • Anna Ranson says

      October 1, 2013 at 11:57 pm

      Deborah I saw your comment and immediately checked my ad settings. I have no idea how something like that has shown up since all those types of ads are blocked here. I am really sorry it has shown! I only see kids toys, books and shopping type things. It is supposed to be to do with the individual’s browser history, not based on my site. I’ll send them a request to investigate, thanks

  7. Jenn says

    October 24, 2013 at 4:08 pm

    I know that when I come to this site, I never see anything indecent. Anna is right, it is usually the individuals browser history. Thanks for looking into it Anna 😉

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