Kids Can Cook - Homemade Popsicles

This summer started off slow, then got decidedly cold and grumpy during the holidays and has only now come good with some decent warm weather!

Instead of complaining about the not so summery summer holidays we are making the most of these late warm days and holding on to summer as much as we can. That means swimming in the pool instead of having a bath on the weekends, dinner outside, and eating as many frozen treats as we can!

This weekend was hot and sunny and we did all of those things, we even made our own frozen treats.

Home-made ice pops! My kids came up with four fun flavours to make their own ice pops. Set your kids a challenge to see what flavours they can come up with!

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I set my kids a challenge to each come up with some new flavours for homemade ice pops!

They had some odd flavours and combinations on their lists, especially the little one. I am not sure what apple and banana ice-pops would turn out like, let alone ‘poop flavoured’ (you gotta love a four year old and their obsession with poo jokes), but we finally settled on four flavours to try – Lime and pineapple, pineapple and berry, strawberry swirl yoghurt, and cookies and cream yoghurt.

For lots of tips and even more ideas for flavours try this beginners guide for making homemade popsicles. And while you wait for your popsicles to freeze, you could try making this popsicle sensory bottle!

How to Make Homemade Popsicles.

Here’s how we made our four fabulous flavours of homemade ice pops:

Lime Pineapple Popsicle Ingredients

a packet of lime jelly mixed with water and cooled but not set
chunks of pineapple

Pineapple and Berry Popsicle Ingredients

pineapple juice
frozen berries – we used raspberries and loganberries.

Strawberry Swirl Yoghurt Popsicle Ingredients

plain greek yoghurt
2 tbsp strawberry jam

Cookies and Cream Yoghurt Popsicle Ingredients

plain greek yoghurt
1-2 tsp icing sugar – to taste
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2-4 chocolate ripple biscuits (or chocolate cookies) broken into chunks

Method for Making Homemade Popsicles:
Put all of the soft ingredients into a bowl, mix and then pour/scoop into your ice pop molds.

We found it best to place the chunks of fruit into our molds first and then fill around them.

Once the molds are full, pop them in the freezer and freeze overnight.

You find these kinds of popsicle molds on Amazon but you could use traditional popsicle molds too, or even plastic cups and popsicle sticks, or ice cube trays and toothpicks for sticks would be fun too!

This is a great cooking activity for the kids to do themselves, from start to finish, and a great way for them to explore flavours and learn how to write and tweak their own recipes.

More Easy Recipes to Cook With Kids.

If your kids love to cook you need to check out all of our tips and tricks for cooking with kids. There are lots of easy recipe ideas in that article too, but here are a few of our favourite no-cook recipes for kids to cook: