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  maybe heretical, but cheaper ice cream makers

  Regarding the making of ice cream

  This can be an excellent activity for the LAST peak hour before you can let the kiddos out again.  Sugar high kids trapped inside are not as excellent!

  One needn't purchase an expensive contraption.  Several options are available if you search "home made ice cream".  Basically, you will need two nesting, non leaking, containers.

  ex: small + large lunch containers,
      re-used ziplock bags,
      cans taped shut (this is obviously less desirable from an environmental standpoint, but an easy way to go to "test", before purchasing tools, whether this is something you will use)

  Put food in one, salt & ice in the other, make all ingredients move.

  (depending on shape & strength of chosen containers: roll across the floor, play catch, stir a "witch's cauldron, magic trick or science experiment".)

  If you use two metal bowls and place them on a wooden chair, the ice & salt melting will freeze your ice-cream quickly, and with enough extra humidity, freeze your bowl to the chair.

  Salt water created in this process can be used for foot soak, but I haven't figured out any other way of reclaiming it. On One mother's tips for managing summer eco-dilemmas posted 1 year, 5 months ago 7 Responses