What do you get when you fill a plastic glove with water and freeze? Simple but super cool science for kids of all ages! Santa’s frozen hands ice melt science activity will amaze your kids and keep them busy for maybe even a whole hour! One of our best Christmas Science Experiments ever!
SANTA’S FROZEN HANDS ICE MELT SCIENCE
Melting Santa’s frozen hands! What a simple but effective science activity for beginner scientists! I adore this simple ice melt activity, and we love ice melt activities in general. We use them all year round and have a terrific collection of ice melt science activities already!
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Frozen hands are super easy to make! I know my son really loves holiday themed activities, so I love to create cool and festive Christmas activities for us to try out together. Ice melting science has so many ways to dress it up for any holiday.
YOU WILL NEED:
- disposable gloves
- glitter!
- sequins, mini ornaments, buttons, and beads {whatever you have!}
- water
- tray for holding hands while they freeze
- container for melting hands in and collecting water
- an eyedropper and or turkey baster
STEP 1: Add fun items, glitter and food coloring (optional) to a disposable glove.
STEP 2: Fill the glove all the way with water and cinch the end with a rubber band as if you were tying off a balloon.
STEP 3: Place in the freezer on a tray!
Make up your Santa hands and get them freezing right away! We were generous with the glitter and covered in it! Mine took a good day to freeze solid. My son was amazed by the hands and had to keep checking the freezer!
Remove the frozen hands by cutting the end off of the rubber glove and peeling the glove off of the hand. Set them in a container filled with Epsom salt for pretend snow {totally optional}! It makes it look so pretty and wintery!
Melting Santa’s Frozen Hands Ice Melt Science and Icy Sensory Play
All you need to add to your frozen hands ice melt activity is warm water, basters, or eye droppers! It’s that simple, and we loved melting the frozen hands to uncover the treasures inside. You will too!
This will definitely keep the kids busy for the morning. When it’s all melted it turns into a lovely water sensory play bin too. The water will be icy cold, so add some warm water as well for a comfortable play temperature!
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It’s like going on a treasure hunt for Christmas goodies! Excellent fine motor skills play with the eye droppers and basters. Little hands get a great workout while having so much fun finding everything! Plus, it’s science too.
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The frozen hands shimmer as they melt! Yes, we truly have glitter everywhere, but it is worth it!
Surprise your kids with Santa’s frozen hands. They will get a real kick out of it!
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November 12, 2014 at 2:11 pmFantastic, Sarah! I adore the holiday spin that you put on our frozen hands activity! You creative Mama, you! I’ll be pinning and sharing with my followers later this week!
littlebins
November 13, 2014 at 7:06 pmAw thanks so much Jackie! He asked for it again today, so I will make a bunch for a playdate!
Theresa
December 11, 2015 at 1:36 pmThis is such a fun activity! Our kids would love it. We did your melting castles activity a while ago and they had so much fun.