This was inspired by Play Train!’s post on Rescuing Toy Trains from Ice. Jessica froze trains into one big ice block and let her son figure out how to get them out! But instead of trains, I made some little toy frog ice cubes for some fun sensory play!



I placed some of the frozen frogs in a bowl at the side of the bath. F was quite interested in them until he realised how cold they felt! So we plopped a few “frog cubes” into the bath and watched the frogs emerge.


We took the bowl outside and let some of the frog cubes melt in the cold water, some out on the path. This would be a great science activity for older kids: which melts faster?

F enjoyed poking around in the bowl: prodding the frog cubes, squishing the water beads and then playing with the frogs once they had “emerged”.