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Hi friends!

Today we have Scented Paper Ice Pops with fruit rind, cocoa powder, and a few other things! We love ice cream as much as the next person, but not the drippy mess my littles end with. = 0 Check these pops out and a few fun suggestions below.

*Click on photos for closer look

What You'll Need

Construction Paper (brown, tan/ivory, white, yellow, green, orange, pink/red; makes 2-4 per sheet)
Citrus Fruit Rinds
Dried Coconut
Cocoa Powder
Red Cereal
Vanilla Extract (imitation ok)
Craft Sticks
Glue Stick & Liquid Glue
Paint Brush
Scissors
Pencil
Optional: Lemonade Powder, Kool-Aid Mix, or Other Scented Items Instead, Small Jar/Cup, Wipes, Newspaper/Table Cover

The Steps

Our version of ice cream pops create sensory play for little hands and a treat for their noses. They’ll experience texture, moisture, and yummy scents, all while “making” ice cream. This is ice cream they CAN play with! Even though you can’t eat it, the toppings are technically edible.

If you’d like to skip the sensory stuff, you could decorate a plain giftbag or make a cute ice pop garland, which we share as well.

Lastly, if you’re stumped on party fun, this would be a great activity for a kids birthday party. Or it could become a game, guests have to guess the scent and to make it trickier, switch the scents and colors lol.

These first 7 steps can be done in advance before the kiddos come to play.

PREP

Turn each sheet horizontally and fold it in half.
Glue each half together.

3. Use a small jar/cup to trace the top part of the ice pop(optional).

4. Then use a popsicle stick or something else with a straight edge for the sides and bottom(optional).

5. Cut out the ice pop.

6. Use that 1st ice pop as a guide for the rest of the ice pops. Depending on the size, you can make 2-4 per sheet. Repeat with each sheet.

7. Cut out all the ice pops.

To make an outdoor hanging garland, skip down to the end.

Here comes the fun part!

SENSORY PLAY

Cover the play space with newspaper or table cover(preferably); clean up will be much easier.
Allow the kids to play with the coconut & powders, crush the cereal, and help grate rinds. They can taste and smell anything they’d like.
When they’re ready to create their ice pops, clean up the area enough to create a workspace.
CREATE
1. Have the kids add liquid glue to their ice pops and spread with their fingers or brush.
2. Add the coconut to the white paper and press down.

3. Repeat with cocoa powder on the brown paper, crushed red cereal or Kool-Aid powder on the pink/red paper, and apply muliple coats of vanilla to the tan/ivory paper.

4. Then move on to the lemonade powder or grated lemon(we used both as the lemonade wasn’t as scented) on the yellow paper, grated lime on green paper, and orange, tangerine, or ruby red grapefruit(what we used) on the orange paper.

Let everything dry for 5-10 min

5. Add glue to half the stick and carefully press the scented ice pop onto the craft stick, if there's no sensory items glued, just press down firmly.

Let dry for 5-10 min

That’s it!

To create the garland look below.

Caution- placing the garland with scented items outside, could attract insects.

To create the garland use a hole punch and some string or twine. Loop the string from behind and through the hole again before moving on to the next ice pop.