“Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.” —Don Kardong
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! If you and your child are ice cream lovers, then this guide will be pure fun. You can invent your own silly ice cream flavors, learn about the origins of the ice cream cone, and even make your own ice cream - in a ziploc bag! Everything in the world around us offers opportunities for curiosity and learning, even something as sweet and lighthearted as ice cream.
What you’ll find in the Ice Cream Guide:
Ice Cream Books to Read Together
Snack Time: Fruit Parfait Sundae Cone
Invitation to Play: Sticker Scoops
Invitation to Play: Make Ice Cream in a Bag
And more games and ways to play! Download the guide for the full scoop. 😉
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11 books about ice cream to read with your kids.
Pick Me! by Max Amato
Sari-Sari Summers by Lynnor Bontigao
Ice-Cream Cones for Sale! by Elaine Greenstein
From Milk to Ice Cream by Bridget Heos, illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman
The Ice Cream King by Steve Metzger, illustrated by Julie Downing
Isaac the Ice Cream Truck by Scott Santoro
The Ice Cream Vanishes by Julia Sarcone-Roach
A Sundae With Everything On It by Kyle Scheele, illustrated by Andy J. Pizza
Gorilla Loves Vanilla by Chae Strathie
What Can You Do With A Paleta? by Carmen Tafolla
Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems
I hope you’ll find a new favorite book on this list! I’ve linked to Amazon for the sake of convenience, but Bookshop.org, AbeBooks, ThriftBooks, and eBay are all great places to shop. And as always, nothing beats borrowing from your local public library.
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3 ice cream videos to watch with your kids.
🍦 “Ernie’s Ice Cream Cone” (Sesame Street, 3 minutes)
🍦 “Frog & Toad: Ice Cream” (Apple TV, 10 minutes)
🍦 “Banana Split” (by Andrea Love, 1 minute)
That’s so interesting!
Get your grown-up self curious about ice cream with these links.
➵ Read: How Ice Cream Became the Ultimate American Comfort Food (Eater) “...ice cream stood in for alcohol as a source of national comfort and diversion to such a degree that by 1929, ice cream consumption had grown by more than 100 million gallons annually, peaking at more than a million gallons per day.”
➵ Read: Tasty De-Lit (New Yorker) “A Facebook group called ‘People for a library-themed Ben & Jerry's flavor!’ has attracted nearly four thousand members, and is bent on petitioning the ice-cream company into submission.”
➵ Watch: How It’s Made: Ice Cream (by Agris Bobrovs, 3 minutes) Sweet little animated short about making ice cream.
➵ Watch: We Tried to Make a 350-Year-Old Ice Cream Recipe (Tasty, 7 minutes) Making Lady Ann Fanshawe's recipe for blade of mace ice cream from the 1660's.
➵ Watch: Too Early For Ice Cream? (The Office US, 2 minutes) “It’s never too early for ice cream, Jim.”
➵ Read (this one's a deep cut): “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” by Wallace Stevens, plus the poem guide (Poetry Foundation) “It turns a vibrant locale into a reminder of our ultimate destination, a once exotic-seeming dessert into a symbol of what fate serves up to all of us in the end. It starts as a whimsical confection, but it leaves a remarkably chilly aftertaste.”
“It wouldn't matter if I got to a hundred picnics in after years; they wouldn't make up for missing this one. They're going to have boats on the Lake of Shining Waters—and ice cream, as I told you. I have never tasted ice cream. Diana tried to explain what it was like, but I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.”
—L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908)
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Toodaloo, cockatoo!
Love, Kathryn