summertime fun: ice cream

"It is time for a special treat," my big girl called out to me after finding a homemade ice cream recipe on the PBSKids website.  After spending over a week at home with sick kids, I was up for anything new.  It turned out to be a great little activity and quite simple too!  Perhaps it might provide a little summertime fun for you too.

Here is what you'll need:

Ingredients:

(makes 1-2 servings)

recipe from pbskids.com cyberchase

1/2 cup half and half

1 tablespoon sugar

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

1 sandwich-size zipper bag

1 gallon-size zipper bag

3 cups crushed ice

1/3 cup rock salt (or sea salt)

{I used Kosher Salt and it worked just fine}

Little signs can be made by excited little helpers! 

Directions:

1. Put first 3 ingredients in the smaller zipper bag and seal bag.

(Make sure it is tightly closed!) Put ice and rock salt in the

larger bag and then drop in the smaller bag.

Seal the large bag.

2.Squeeze, shake and roll the smaller bag within the 

larger bag until the ingredients have thickened,

about 10-15 minutes.

3. Remove small bag, unseal it, and eat with spoon.

Everything always tastes better when a little work went into making it!

YUM!