I have taught an ice cream classes to children 7-12.
There is a wonderful book called "Mudluscious : stories and activities featuring food for preschool children" by Jan Irving and Robin Currie. Although it is for preschool children, many of the activities are age appropriate for children as old as 12. It has a chapter dedicated to nothing but ice cream with ideas for activities cooking and otherwise as well as books with the ice cream theme. It also gives you alot of other ideas that can be centered around cooking.
Hope this helps. If you cannot obtain this book let me know and I will send you the ice cream info.
We did not do popsciles-that is a terrific idea though, but we did make our own ice cream from 2 cans one inside the other.Then you roll it over a rough surface.The directions are in "Mudluscious"
We also did the ice cream pie, allowing each child to put a scoop of ice cream in the pie and decorating it with syrups we made (hot fudge) and toppings and letting them pipe out some whipped cream tinted different colors.
WE also put our own ingredients in the ice cream by spreading it out and sprinkling the ingredients and mixing it all together.Kind of gets messy..
You can make your own waffle cone.
Make an ice cream cake very simply. Just open a box style carton of ice cream and put it on a platter.Have the children frost it with whip cream and then decorated it with sprinkles and assorted fruits and candies.
We also worked with ice cream and watermelon basket. I of course cut the basket for them then they made watermelon balls we added assorted fruits to it then put some simple sugar syrup on top and used it as a topping for vanilla ice cream or sherbert.
From years of teaching children's cooking classes, I found that the more involved the children can be, the more fun they will have.
