If you felt a whole lotta’ shakin’ goin’ on you must have been at the Capitol Hill branch when it finished its summer story time series the end of August. It was the perfect way to welcome the warm weather and to head off into the furlough. Over a hundred and twenty-five kids and their adults joined us to say good-bye and shake, shake, shake, themselves some ice cream.
Daniel Tilton, adult/teen services librarian, who had done a cooking 
program with the children’s librarian at New Holly branch, suggested to Carol Edlefsen, children’s services librarian, that they team up and provide an ice cream story time as a way for him to get to know the story time families and to close a successful Summer Reading Program.
Carol read “Should I Share My Ice Cream” by Mo Willems where we find elephant asking if he should share his ice cream with pig. The consensus of the group, as you can well imagine, was no but the book ended somewhat differently. Then Daniel gave a very short history of ice cream and finally we got to making the ice cream itself. This is the baggie method of ice cream making and it is as deliciously easy to make as it is to eat.
What you’ll need:
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ½ cup of milk or half and half – we used whole milk
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla
- 6 tablespoons rock salt
- pint-sized baggies – we used Ziploc
- gallon-sized baggies
- ice cubes
How to make it:
- fill the large bag half full of ice and add the rock salt
- put the milk, vanilla, and sugar into a small bag – seal the bag
- place the small bag inside the large bag of ice and salt – seal
- shake the bag until you have a solid mixture – it takes about 5 minutes
- wipe off the small bag – it gets salty – then open and enjoy!
- It was an easy, delicious, and fun method in which to say good-bye and more than one person thanked us for our first annual ice cream story time!
~ Photos courtesy of Darren Ng and Sophia Tsang
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