Ice Cream Making With Snow!

There has been lots of snow so we decided that we would put it to good use by making some ice cream this week.  Students measured the milk, sugar and vanilla and put it into a small ziploc bag.

They put the little ziploc in a larger ziploc and added some salt to the bag.

Next they had to go to the snow table and add a scoop of snow to the bag and seal it up.












After that, they returned to their table and shook it all up.  It took about 5 minutes and another scoop of snow before it was all done.

It was a cold job, so most of them went to put on mittens to keep their hands warm.  Some of them thought they needed their hats too.

Finally, everyone got to sample their experiment.  TASTY STUFF.  A big thank you to Mrs. Phinney for staying to help with this chilly experiment.

 

 

 

 

Here is the recipe for the ziploc ice cream if you want to try it at home.  I couldn't find the original source for the recipe. (I googled it years ago)

Ziploc Ice Cream

• 1/2 cup milk (doesn't matter what kind, but I used Whole Milk)
• 1 Tablespoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla or other flavor

      1.  Add ingredients to snack size ziploc bag and zip shut.
2. Place that bag in larger ziploc bag (sandwich size).
3. Add ice or snow to fill bag 1/2 way and 6 Tablespoons of salt (coarse salt works best).
4. Zip that one shut and shake, turn, toss, and mix the bag. In about 5-10 minutes you will have cold hands and yummy ice cream.

Do not double recipe!! Kids may want to use mittens to do this!


NOTE: You may need to put an additional large ziploc bag over the one containing the salt and ice since they tend to spring leaks once you get into the shaking it up.