Ice Cream Practice Pack

Who doesn’t like ice cream?!?! Teachers can use this easy-to-make pack to practice colors and numbers. It can be used for fast finishers or each student can make their own.

I used an oatmeal box to make the cone, pieces of cardboard to write the numbers and creative paper to make the ice cream scoops and the bag to keep everything in.

The students can pick a popsicle stick with a sequence of colors for them to copy with the colors of the ice cream. They then can be asked which color comes first, second and so on. Teachers can add plain popsicle sticks for students to color their own sequences for other students to order on the ice cream cone.

I made the paper bag using the handles of a shopping bag I had which I tore off and glued onto the inside of the pocket.

This little pack will let students work on their own, in pairs or small groups to maybe even time how fast they can copy the sequence from the popsicle stick onto the ice cream cone.

You can also have students be creative by asking them which flavor of ice cream each scoop is, for example, the purple scoop could be grape or cotton candy. Let them use their imagination!

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