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Ice Cream Shop {Using Ice Cream Dough}

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Ice Cream Shop with Ice Cream Dough

After making a few batches of ice cream dough this afternoon, Gracen and I set up a simple little ice cream shop in the living room.  We used an old wooden apple crate for her table top and made sure the floor was protected with a large bath towel.

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Then we went around the house to collect a few other items.  First up – ice cream cones.  Yes, the real ones…  We had them on hand from her 2nd birthday party and they’d never be used otherwise, so may as well use them for some fun pretend play, right?

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Of course, for customers not partial to cones, you need to have a bowl option.  These silicon baking cups did the job perfectly.

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Next, we gathered up some spoons and an ice cream scoop…

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As well as some buttons, beads, and straw pieces for candies and candy sprinkles.

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And with that, our little ice cream shop owner got to work.

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There was plenty of scooping, touching, smelling, and exploring to be done.

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Of course the ice cream treats rolled out of the shop one after another too.  A hazelnut ice cream cone for Papa…

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And a strawberry ice cream cup {with extra candy sprinkles!} for Mama.

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This was such a simple set-up, but I can already tell that she’s going to get hours of fun out of it.  Of course, it’s more than just fun…  This little ice cream shop incorporates pretend play, a sensory experience, and creativity too.

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{AMAZING} Ice Cream Dough

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Ice Cream Dough

This afternoon Gracen and I tried out a new sensory material originally created by Jessie of Play Create Explore (if you’re a parent and haven’t checked out her blog before, you definitely should – she’s got hundreds of sensory play ideas, fun bath ideas, and tons more) and it was AWESOME.

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The ingredients seem a little strange, but they work perfectly together to create a hard ice cream-looking texture.  The main two ingredients are cornstarch and conditioner – yes, hair conditioner – the cheapest variety you can find.   The other stuff is just food colouring and cheap imitation extracts to make it look and smell more like real ice cream.

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We decided on making 3 ‘flavours’ (coconut, strawberry, and hazelnut), Gracen started us off by putting an equal amount of conditioner in 3 bowls.

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Then she added our food colouring – none for coconut, red for strawberry, and a combination of red, green, and yellow for the hazelnut.

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Then she added a generous pour of extract into each of the bowls…

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And mixed them up.

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One thing I will say is that we should have spend a little more time looking for an unscented {or at least a very lightly scented} conditioner.  At $1.28, the price was certainly right, but the strong ‘fresh’ scent gave our imitation extracts a serious run for their money.  Even something food scented would have been better…  Next time we’ll look for something of the strawberry / coconut / mango variety.

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Next up was the messy part…  Mixing the cornstarch into the conditioner mixture.

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After gently folding and blending the cornstarch and conditioner together, this was the end result.

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Isn’t it crazy how much it looks like REAL hard ice cream?!

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Here’s a close up view.

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And as long as it’s handled like hard ice cream usually is (not rolled or smoothed over too much – thanks for the tip, Jessie!), it scoops perfectly – just as ice cream does. ☺

 

We followed Play Create Explore‘s ratios exactly, so please visit the original post here.  The amounts we used for these batches, along with details on the colouring and extracts are as follows:

Coconut Ice Cream Dough

  • 1/2 cup of cheap hair conditioner
  • 1 cup of cornstarch
  • 1 tablespoon of imitation coconut extract

 

Strawberry Ice Cream Dough

  • 1/2 cup of cheap hair conditioner
  • 1 cup of cornstarch
  • 6 drops of red food colouring
  • 1 tablespoon of imitation strawberry extract

 

Hazelnut Ice Cream Dough

  • 1/2 cup of cheap hair conditioner
  • 1 cup of cornstarch
  • 4 drops of red food colouring
  • 4 drops of green food colouring
  • 12 drops of yellow food colouring
  • 1 tablespoon of imitation hazelnut extract

 

Enjoy!

 

See how we put our ice cream dough to use in our pretend play ice cream shop.

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