• Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Creative Little Explorers

Ideas and activities for creating, learning, and exploring with your kids!

  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • Subscribe
    • Disclosure
    • Privacy Policy
  • Activities for Kids
  • Freebies
You are here: Home / Uncategorized / Friendship Ice Cream: A Craft for “Should I Share My Ice Cream?” by Mo Willems

Friendship Ice Cream: A Craft for “Should I Share My Ice Cream?” by Mo Willems

This week’s book for the Virtual Book Club for Kids is Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems. We never read this one prior to this week even though we love Mo Willems books. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! is a current favorite, so we were excited to check this one out.

In Should I Share My Ice Cream? Gerald is very excited about his ice cream and debates whether or not he should share with his friend Piggie. The more time goes by, the more his ice cream melts and before you know it – it’s gone! Good thing Piggie shows up just in time and happily shares her ice cream with Gerald. It’s such a cute story and a great way to talk about friendship!

icecreamfb

We decided we would like to do an ice cream craft to go with this book. We love watercolor – especially when we can reveal “magic words” while painting.  This friendship ice cream craft includes that! As the child paints, friendship words are revealed, providing the perfect opportunity to talk about what it takes to be a good friend.

Friendship Ice Cream Craft:

Materials:

The Ice Cream Scoops and Cone Printable, watercolors, a paintbrush,  white crayon, glue, and construction paper (optional).

learn about what it takes to be a good friend with these friendship vocabulary words. This water color resist activity magically reveals the friendship words as you talk about what it takes to be a good friend.

How to:

  1. On the Ice Cream Scoops and Cone Printable, write words that make a good friend on each scoop using the white crayon. I recommend writing them along the bottom of each scoop so that when it’s time to glue the scoops together the words don’t get covered. It is easier to do this near light so you can see what you are writing. We used the following words: share, care, nice, listen, gentle, fun, and help.learn about what it takes to be a good friend with these friendship vocabulary words. This water color resist activity magically reveals the friendship words as you talk about what it takes to be a good friend.
  2. Now it’s time to paint! Have the child paint with watercolors over the words on the scoops. As the friendship words are revealed, talk about what the words mean and how a good friend does these things.learn about what it takes to be a good friend with these friendship vocabulary words. This water color resist activity magically reveals the friendship words as you talk about what it takes to be a good friend.
  3. Color or paint the ice cream cone.
  4. Build your ice cream!  Cute out the scoops and cone and glue the pieces together.  Optional: Glue the whole thing on construction paper.

learn about what it takes to be a good friend with these friendship vocabulary words. This water color resist activity magically reveals the friendship words as you talk about what it takes to be a good friend.learn about what it takes to be a good friend with these friendship vocabulary words. This water color resist activity magically reveals the friendship words as you talk about what it takes to be a good friend. learn about what it takes to be a good friend with these friendship vocabulary words. This water color resist activity magically reveals the friendship words as you talk about what it takes to be a good friend.

Here’s a video of our friendship ice cream we posted over on Instagram:

I love his "umm, hmmm" ? Today we are learning about friendship with the #vbcforkids and Mo Willems "Should I Share My Ice Cream?" We did a watercolor resist craft to reveal what it takes to be a good friend. It turned out cute! See full details #ontheblog #linkinprofile

A video posted by Emily | To be a Kid Again (@tobeakidagainblog) on Sep 19, 2016 at 9:44am PDT

 

learn about what it takes to be a good friend with these friendship vocabulary words. This water color resist activity magically reveals the friendship words as you talk about what it takes to be a good friend.

 

Filed Under: Activities, Art, Create, Discover, Fine Motor, Literacy, Printables, Read, Science, Uncategorized

Reader Interactions

Trackbacks

  1. Winter Watercolor Resist Techniques for Kids - To be a Kid Again says:
    December 22, 2016 at 10:13 am

    […] This one uses a simple white crayon and is super fun. We like to use it to reveal surprise pictures, secret messages, or practice vocabulary like we did in our Friendship Ice Cream craft. […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

On Instagram

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: No connected account.

Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to connect an account.

Footer

Meet Emily

Hi, I'm Emily! Here you will find fun, hands-on activities for toddlers and preschoolers. My goal is to encourage you to engage in learning together while discovering the joys of being a kid again!

follow along with us!

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Most Recent Posts

DISCLAIMER: All activities described on this website require direct adult supervision and participation. Use caution when using craft supplies and small parts with children. You know your child best. Adapt any activities to suit your child's abilities, and always talk to your pediatrician if there are any concerns.
Copyright © 2016 To Be a Kid Again
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok