I love craft foam. And I especially like that, when wet, craft foam sticks to glass, tile, or the bath tub. As a result, it is a fun, easy, and cheap way to come up with homemade toys. The other day I came up with a fun ice cream play set for the boys.
Materials
- Foam of various colors
- Ice cream scoop
- Container of water (or a bath tub)
Cut ice cream cone shapes out of a light tan/brown color. Then cut out ice cream scoop shapes out of a variety of colors.
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| J is building a supreme ice cream cone. |
I put all the ice cream parts into a container with a small amount of water in it. I made sure to coat each piece with a little bit of water. I also put out an ice cream scoop so that the boys could really pretend to be running an ice cream parlor. I chose to set this up by the large window in our living room, but it works awesome in the bath tub too.
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| The invitation |
J was so excited. He loves ice cream. So he started building some cute little ice cream cones.
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| Adding another scoop |
Then he built a huge ice cream cone, with a cone on the top as well as the bottom.
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| I'd eat that ice cream cone. Just sayin'... |
And if you're building ice cream cones, it only makes sense to pretend to lick the ice cream...
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| Yum! |
K also tried out the ice cream set. He focused mostly on getting the scoops of ice cream to stick to the window.
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| Picking out a flavor to use. |
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| It sticks! |
Then, of course, it only made sense to make some ice cream numbers!
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I tried to type something witty, but every time I typed
number 2, I thought of poop. Clearly, I am a mom
and I have a childish sense of humor. |
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| The number 3 |
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| A really awesome number 4 |
The next day, we used the ice cream set in the bath tub. It worked great!
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| Bath time fun |
