As you know, I’ve been trying to come up with some fun ways for the girls and I to enjoy our summer together without going crazy. This is the last week of school for Quinby and I am starting to feel the pressure of providing creative edutainment for my kiddos. Today, we got to try out my latest boredom buster idea – Popsicle Adventures!
What you’ll need
- wooden popsicle sticks (you can get them at craft stores or grocery stores. I got ours at Fred Meyers)
- ingredients for making your favorite kind of popsicle (I’ve got recipes for the ones we made below)
- sharpie marker
- imagination
Now we had to figure out a way to put the two words together. First the girls tried hula hooping while they walked. This didn’t work since neither girl can really hula hoop even standing still.
Then it was decided that the hula hoops themselves should walk and so they needed legs. The girls got right to it, folding up paper to make accordion legs, coloring shoes on the ends, and taping them to the hula hoops.
PZ took hers for a walk, while Quinby enjoyed watching her sort of dance in the breeze.
The whole adventure took a little over an hour and everyone had lots of fun. When we were done, both girls wanted to go on another “adventure”, but I had to set the limit of one per day. I have a feeling we’ll be doing this a lot this summer.
Here are the recipes I used to make our popsicles. Let me know if you come up with any good recipes or adventure words. I could use some help brainstorming over here!
Triple Berry Blast Off Pops (we made these in rocket molds)
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup raspberries
- 1 cup strawberries (with the greens cut off)
- juice of one big lemon
- 2/3 cup sugar
Blue Annas
- 3 big ripe bananas (cut up)
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 1/2 cup yogurt (Nancy’s low fat plain)
- 3 T sugar
Strawberry Limeys
- 2 cups strawberries (greens cut off)
- juice of 1 lime
- 1 cup greek yogurt
- 3 T sugar