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    What’s Inside the Ice-Cube? – Outdoor Summer Fun!

    July 17, 2014 /

    Number 81 on our 100 Days of Summer Bucket list is “Discover what’s inside the giant ice cube!”.  Doodles and Oodles have been dying to try this out since I showed them a number of similar activities on other blogs and Pinterest!  Doodles actually did this at nursery when he was 2 or 3 years old and has often referred to it since! So, yesterday as I was reading down through our bucket list and ticking off a few more items I spotted number 81 and decided that would be our next activity! What we used: basin water toy dinosaurs meat mallet kitchen utensils spades, spoons, plastic knives freezer!!!! What…

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