It’s finally summertime here in South Africa! While we are only a couple of weeks into the new season, we have already been given a few sweltering days – which I love! I love the heat, the atmosphere that comes with it and all of the “fun in the sun” activities. To add to the excitement, my kid is just about to go on school holidays. So, it’s time to whip out the fun and games and “be cool”.

And what better way to be cool and stay cool than having fun with ice? I have one of our all-time favourite pass-times on our agenda for the coming week, which is:

ICE PAINTING!

This nifty way of making art is not only perfect for rainy days indoors, but is also an excellent way to cool down on hot summer days too. It's also super affordable and if you have kids, it is very likely that you have all the materials you will need on hand already.

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Here's what you will need:

• A tray or oven pan
• Water
• Water-based paint
• Markers/crayons
• A4 sized Paper
• Paper towels
• Paint brushes

Here’s what you do:

1. Prepare this activity ahead of time by pouring water into a tray and freezing it.
2. Once frozen, set up a station with paints and paint brushes.
3. Let the kids paint on the ice.
4. Place a sheet of paper over the painting, on the ice. Rub it all over so that the paper becomes moist and soaks up the water and paint.
5. Allow the paper to dry. Depending on the weather, this might take some time.
6. Once the paper has dried, the kids can further decorate their pages using markers or crayons.

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PS. This can be used as gift wrapping paper!

*** Use Christmas colors to paint the ice with and you will be left with some festive paper to wrap gifts with!

Much love - @sweetpea

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