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5 Scoop the ice cream into snowballs and put them in a bowl. Add your favorite toppings and enjoy your icy sweet treat!

Did you know?

Shaking the ice cream while it freezes helps make tiny crystals with plenty of air in between. That way, you get fluffy ice cream insteadf ao b i g p o p s i c l e !

kiwico.com/kids-at-home ice-cream snowballs Shake up a frozen treat!

You'll need: ice cubes 1 tablespoon of sugar big zip bag (gallon sized) 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract small zip bag (quart sized) pinch of regular salt 6 tablespoons of coarse salt ice cream toppings 1/2 cup of half-and-half

1 Fill the big zip bag halfway with 2 Put the half-and-half, sugar, ice. Then add the coarse salt and vanilla extract, and regular salt mix everything up. into the small zip bag and seal it.

Be sure to put the Seal it tight so coarse salt (not your ice cream the regular salt) in doesn't leak! the big bag!

3 Put the small bag in the big bag 4 Shake the bags for at least and bury it under the ice and salt. seven minutes or until the Then seal the big bag. liquid in the small bag freezes into ice cream!

Tip! Wrap the big Tip! Take bag in a towel so turns shaking it oed sn't get too with a friend! cold to hold.

5 Scoop the ice cream into snowballs and put them in a bowl. Add your favorite toppings and enjoy your icy sweet treat!

Did you know?

Shaking the ice cream while it freezes helps make tiny crystals with plenty of air in between. That way, you get fluffy ice cream insteadf ao b i g p o p s i c l e !

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