How often do we tell our kids not to play with their food? Well, we found a way to play for a while, before dessert! The Ice Cream Ball by YayLabs! is a fantastic toy that lets you roll your way to a delicious bowl of ice cream. One side of the Ice Cream Ball has a chamber that you fill with cream, sugar and any other ingredients you choose. Then you flip it over and fill the main chamber with ice cream salt (readily available in your local grocery store) and lots of ice. It even comes with a blow up cover to make it easier to roll.
Once we filled both chambers, sealed them and put the blow up case on the Ice Cream Ball, we started playing. After about ten minutes of rolling it around, I opened the chamber, scraped down the sides and mixed the ingredients around, then refilled the ice, added some more salt and we continued to roll it around. I have to admit, the second time we used it, my girls opted to toss it around. Unfortunately, one of them threw it a bit too hard and it landed smack on the corner of a desk and part of the blow up cover popped. I figured the hard outer case was safer on a soft surface, so we ended up rolling it around on the grass after the cover popped. After the final ten minutes, we headed back inside to see what we’d made. At first, it looked pretty soft, but after I started to scoop off the top layer, we found real, honest to goodness ice cream. It was super tasty and the girls had a great time burning off a little energy to make their treat.
The Ice Cream Ball came with a small instruction book that had easy to follow directions, tips, and four pages of recipes including a section for grown-up ice creams. It even says that you can make frozen coffee, tea, and frozen cocktails! The Ice Cream Ball retails for between $29.99-$49.99 depending on exact item and cover. It can be found at http://www.amazon.com/ http://www.llbean.com/, http://www.mindware.com/ and many other online retail companies. See their website for details: http://www.industrialrev.com/
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We did not receive monetary compensation for this review. Erin received an Ice Cream Ball and Inflatable Cover from Yay Labs/Industrial Revolution free of charge to facilitate this review. Giveaway item will be provided by sponsor. Sponsor has the right to refuse filling prize for duplicate winners from other blogs. This will in no way sway our opinion of the product or service. The review is in our own words and is our opinion. Your results and opinions may differ.
42 comments
I like peach ice cream. I want to win because my kids have played with one of these on a camping trip and loved it. It was a fun thing to make ice cream while camping.
kerrie@mayansfamily.com
my favorite flavor is cinnamon…and i’d like to win this because it would be a unique fun pass time for the kids!
I love Vanilla And I WOuld Love This Because My Kids Would HAve A BAll !
I love rocky road. It would be a good teaching tool about how fun “cooking” is. It makes you an active participant in the process instead of just putting ingredients in a machine and letting the machine make the ice cream.
My favorite flavor of almost any sweet is chocolate! I also love Butter Pecan ice cream. This looks like it would be so much fun for my little grands!
i love rocky road, i would be great to make new flavors of ice cream with my family. thanks
I love black cherry. This looks like something fun for our family to do!
My favorite flavor is butter pecan. I would love to have this so we could make ice cream on vacation!
choco chip mint is my favorite. i want to win because the kids will LOVE this.
To be honest, I’ve never met a flavor of ice cream I didn’t love, lol! Not to long ago I had some fantastic green tea and honey ice cream. I also really love ben and jerry’s chunky monkey 🙂 I would love to win this because it would be so much fun for me and my son’s spending quality time in the kitchen
I like vanilla and I would like to win because this would be fun to do with my granddaughter
Kims2312@verizon.net
I love Chocolate and I would like to win as I would love doing this with my children.
lauraemerson17 at yahoo dot com
I love chocolate chip cookie dough! Would love to win this because I think it would be a blast to make ice cream with my son.
I like spumoni. It looks like alot of fun to make it.
My favorite flavor is vanilla with lots of caramel on it! This would be a great way to entertain on our family movie night. Making ice cream for our family activity would be great!
I love Strawberry ice cream! I would love to have this because I love to see my kids make great food and see how they feel when we love it! They would love to have this! This would be so fun to make and be so proud to serve!
I like rocky road and my grandkids would love this
i had to comment on this = to funny!
Butter Pecan
We’d like to win so we can have all the kids camping make ice cream.
Also this would be great for the hippie fests.
I love mint chocolate chip ice cream. I think this would be a great thing to do with the kids
My favorite ice cream flavor is strawberry or mint chocolate chip.
I’d love to have this product because I have always wanted to make ice cream myself, plus I think my kids would love how this works
My favorite flavor is coffee. I’d like to win this because I collect fun things for the kids at Ronald McDonald House, and they’d have a blast with this!
i love butter pecan and i want to win this because it is such a cool product
I love chocolate chip mint ice cream. I would love to win the Ice Cream Ball because my 2 little granddaughters would love to make their own ice cream. 🙂
I love chocolate chip ice cream. I’d like the kids to get a workout with this ball before we eat the ice cream.
My favorite flavor is maple walnut. This would be a lot of fun for us to do as a family!!
I really like the chocolate/whoopie pie icecream I have in my freezer right now. I love any chocolate icecream with marshmallows. I would like this because my kids and I eat icecream most nights and they would enjoy this.
My favorite flavor is strawberry. I want to win this because my family loves ice cream!
My favorite ice cream is goo goo cluster. The kids would have a “ball” with this!!
chocolate & for my kids
I love chocolate ice cream. I would love to be able to make a little ice cream at home.
starbucks java! I want to win because i like natural foods this is away for me to make healthier ice cream.
My favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla. I would love to win because my nieces and nephews would have so much fun making their own ice cream and playing at the same time.
kids like chocolate ice cream. this is such a COOL toy! we would have such a BALL playing with it.
I like vanilla chocolate chip cookie dough. I’d like to win this because my son loves to help me make things and I think he would love this!
I love chocolate mocha! This looks like a great way to try making ice cream for beginners – it seems pretty fool-proof!
My favorite ice cream flavor is Butter Pecan and I would like to have this because my grandson would like it! Thanks so much!
My favorite its chocolate. I would like this because it looks like a lot of fun to make.
My favorite is butter pecan. I want to win this because my kids are at that age where a ball is the most amazing toy in the world. Plus, playing with this one has a reward in the end.
I personally don’t like ice cream. I’d like to win so I could use this as a christmas gift for my nephews 🙂
I like chocolate ice cream. My kids would have a blast making their own ice cream to enjoy!
My favorite flavor is coffee; I’d love to win because it looks like something fun to do with my daughter.