Science Day Food Project: See how rock salt can help make ice cream

Make Homemade Ice Cream
(This is a great Father’s Day Project).

What you need:
1- Plastic freezer strength zip lock bag, storage size.
2- Another plastic freezer strength zip lock bag, gallon size.
3- ¼ cup of sugar.
4- ¼ cup of whole milk.
5- 2/3 cup of heavy whipping cream.
6- 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
7- Rock salt.
8- Ice.
9- Spoon and bowls.

What to do:
1- Have your child pour sugar, milk, whipping cream and vanilla in smaller zip lock bag.
2- Stir ingredients with spoon.
3- Make sure you seal this bag completely. This is important. Triple check if you must. You do not want rock salt to get into this bag!!!
4- Now pour about 3 ½ cups of ice into larger zip lock bag.
5- You the parent carefully sprinkle about ½ cup of rock salt over the ice.
6- Put smaller zip lock into larger zip lock bag.
7- If you have gloves, let your child put them on first.
8- Shake bag. Keep shaking for around twelve minutes. You might need to help shake bag, or two or more children can help shake.
9- After twelve minutes of shaking take smaller bag out of larger bag. Fully wipe the outside of smaller bag with paper towel before opening it. Throw away larger bag.
10- You can eat the ice cream now. Or put ice cream in new zip lock freezer bag, freeze, and eat later.

Eatable Arts Project- Pancake Face

Eatable art: Pancake faces. This is great as a child's birthday breakfast.
What you need as food: Pancakes. Chocolate chips. Whip cream. Strawberries cut in half. Blueberries. Eatable cupcake sprinkles, both colored and brown. Long red and black licorice.

Make a batch of pancakes. Now make a face on them. Blueberries or chocolate chips can be used for eyes. A strawberry cut up in half can be the nose. Either cut up strawberries or a piece of red licorice can be used as the mouth. Brown sprinkles can be used as freckles and/or hair. Colored sprinkles, black licorice or whip cream can be used as hair as well. Spray the whip cream in a pile to form a head bun. Or spray whip cream around your pancake’s eyes to make glasses. Make ears out of licorce. It's fun to create a pancake to resemble a person. Children like it when parents join in the fun. So make a pancake face too!

For Halloween: A Spooky Breakfast

Tomorrow or Halloween morning cook up some pancakes. When ready cut pancakes into ghost shapes. You can use a knife or a pizza cutter to cut the shapes. If you have ghost and/or witch cookie cutters use them on pancakes. For the ghost use chocolate chips or raisins for eyes and a Cheerio for the mouth.

Tasty Hot Weather Treat

Summer weather is starting, at least where I live. For something fun, tasty and different have your child mix chocolate milk with sparkling water or seltzer water. My nephew likes watching it fizz. My sister-in-law just introduced this drink to me. She says it hails from Brooklyn, where her father drank it as a child. Called egg cream, though it has no egg or cream in it, it's a delicious alternative to regular chocolate milk.

Food Project for Halloween- Carmel Apples

Caramel apples. A Halloween treat. What you need: Apples (Granny Smith are I think are best for this.) Popsicle sticks. A bag of caramels. Cookie sheet. Wax paper. Double pot that has handles. Note: Be careful working with hot caramel.
Line cookie sheet with wax paper. Wash apples and dry them. Place apples on cookie sheet, spacing them at least 3-4 inches apart. Melt caramels in a double pot (A pot that fits inside a pot. The first pot on the stove boils water; the other pot inside this melts the caramels.) When caramels are melted carefully pour over apples. Before the caramel cools on the apple poke popsicle stick in top. This will be the handle so your child can eat the caramel apple. If you must have caramel on the bottom of the apples you can try this. Before you place apples on wax paper pour a little melted caramel on the spots you plan to place apples. Then quickly place apples in this caramel. Now you can pour caramel on top of apples. Let carameled apples cool and harden before eating them.