I found this idea from Crumbs in My Couch. Freeze a bunch of small toys, coins, buttons, necklaces in water and then let the kids "discover" them. Freeze different layers at a time so that the heavy toys won't all be at the bottom and the light toys all at the top.
Before we started the activity, I told the mermaids a story about a beautiful land where there were princesses and animals and then along came Jack Frost who froze everything. I told them they were the good fairies and they had to sprinkle their fairy dust (salt) on the ice and free the toys with their wands (tooth brushes).
After a while the brushing got a little tedius so the mermaids used chizzles.
Before we started the activity, I told the mermaids a story about a beautiful land where there were princesses and animals and then along came Jack Frost who froze everything. I told them they were the good fairies and they had to sprinkle their fairy dust (salt) on the ice and free the toys with their wands (tooth brushes).
After a while the brushing got a little tedius so the mermaids used chizzles.The hotter the afternoon, the better this works. The mermaids (pretending to be fairies) were very excited every time they "released" someone from their icy prison.
I used toys they already had but this would be really fun (and more motivational) if you bought new toys for them to discover and free from the ice. 
Oh, I love happy faces!
Materials: old toothbrushes (free) ice (free) toys ($2.00 - $5.00 at dollar store) salt ($1.00) salt shakers (3 at $.89 each) Total Price: under $10.00
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