Ice Ice Baby! It's Hot Out There!

It's been so hot lately I was looking for a cool activity to do outside with the boys.  I found this great activity over at Crafts -N- Things for Children.  We filled up a plastic container with water and added some things we had around the house. The boys and I talked about which things were floating and sinking as we added them to the water.  After the boys played in the water a bit they helped me put it in the freezer.  Later that afternoon we took it outside to see what would happen!  Elliott and Oliver had a great time watching the ice melt and trying to figure out which items were going to come out next.  After the ice was melted we came inside and the boys drew pictures of the activity in their journals.