Milkshake Moustaches

We have had such fun today making milkshakes!!

We had a question this morning on our board asking - What is your favourite flavour?  The children could choose between chocolate, vanilla or strawberry. So the groups were made - 7 chocolate, 6 vanilla and 3 strawberry.

We decided to wait until after our school photos before taking on the task of making our milkshakes and as you will see from the pictures it was a good choice ;-)

The children were given a blender, plastic cups, ice cream, and milk.  In their group they had to discuss how they were going to make the milkshakes with these items.  The teacher gave no instructions but was the robot that the children had to give directions to.  

Vanilla went first:

They decided to each have a turn at putting a scoop of ice cream in the blender, followed by each filling half a cup of milk and putting it in.  We blended it together and had a taste test. The verdict was - lots of milkshake moustaches! 

Next was chocolate:

They spent a lot of time talking about what system they were going to use to make their milkshakes.  They had a hard time deciding on how many scoops of ice cream because some wanted it sweet and the others didn't. They decided on 4 scoops of ice cream and 4 cups of milk. Into the blender it went and after the taste test the verdict was - a big thumbs up!

Finally it was strawberry:

They had the smallest group but made the biggest milkshake!  They each had a turn at putting in a big scoop of ice cream followed by each putting in half a cup of milk.  All into the blender and after the taste test the verdict was - huge smiles!

Once each group had finished we sat together on the mat and reflected on how the groups worked together.  We talked about what they thought worked well and what they would do differently next time.  They all agreed that if you don't follow a system then things can go wrong!  We had a lot of fun making them!!