If your children are anything like mine, they are always getting into scrapes and have many a bump and bruise. So having an ice pack is essential. I was inspired by Inside out to create this DIY ice pack with a sadness design.
How to make a DIY Ice Pack
Materials
- 2 x ziplock bags
- Antibacterial hand gel
- Sharpies
- Duct Tape
- Water
- Food colouring (optional)
- Sticker paper
Instructions
Using the antibacterial gel means that your DIY ice pack will remain in a semi frozen state making it flexible and perfect for shaping round bumps.
Mix one part antibacterial hand gel with three parts water. We had clear gel, so added a couple of drops of food colouring to make out ice pack look like Sadness from Inside Out.
Place into a ziplock bag and try and remove any ice before sealing.
We double bagged and also sealed the top with blue duct tape, not only to secure it, but also to look a little like hair!
Decorate – We used sharpies and eyes that I printed and then cut on my Cricut Air.
Pop in the freezer.
NB, when using cover with a teatowel of muslin.
There are several other recipes across the web:
The husband even suggested using vodka, but I can think of better things to do with the vodka, especially as the kids are off school for the next six weeks!
I also have an amazing competition for you. I really want to win this myself! We have a hardcover art book, signed by all the cast and the director up for grabs – a really lovely collector’s item!
Inside Out Compeition
I never had an imaginary friend, but I had my twin sister with me always so kinda didn’t need one! I love your Sadness ice pack – sadness is my fave character, she is just so dumpy and cute!
Your Comments Never had an imaginary friend. I had a brother who was only 15 months older than me & a cat called Tinkerbell so never felt the need for an imaginary friend.
I didn’t have one – my old school reports all said that I had absolutely no imagination.
I didn’t but my daughter had one, an alien called ‘Alan’
I did! My imaginary friend was a bear – I can’t for the life of me remember his name, though!
No, I don’t think I ever did!
Inspired by my favourite story I imagined various Peter Pan characters and adventures.
No i did’nt but i would mind one now & she would be called luna
No, I never did.
I had an imaginary Unicorn i was about 6 🙂
i don’t think i did it was a long time ago
I’m pretty sure I didn’t have one, my niece had one for years though 🙂
I just had an annoying big brother that I called Duracell as he had a copper coloured top (red hair!!)
No i didn’t have an imaginary friend 🙁
No I didn’t have an imaginary friend.
No, I never had an imaginary friend.
I never had a imaginary friend unfortunately but im sure if i did they would have been something like the character in `drop dead fred`.
Yes, called Alice
I never had an imaginary friend but i imagined I was everything from a nurse to an astronaut!
Tony!
I never had an imaginary friend but imagined my teddy Sam was alive!
I never had one imaginary friend, but a whole team of them that I would talk to, it would depend on what I was doing…I had one for dinner time, one for play time, they never had names but my favourite was the bath friend who I used to make ‘chika belekers’ for, which were super posh bubble topped cocktails in the toothbrush beaker 🙂
I never had one, I mustn’t have been creative enough.
Sadly I never had one – clearly lacked the imagination.
I didnt have one 🙁
No, I never had one. Would have been fun though!
No I didn’t, I had 4 siblings so I ddin’t have too much alone time to get bored.
yes one called Henry
Did not have one but wished i did!
Jiminy Cricket from Pinnochio was my imaginary friend for a while!!
i didnt, but always wished that i had!
Yes! It was an imaginary mouse friend called mousey!
Yes! It was an imaginary mouse friend called mousey!
nope I didn’t have one 🙂
I never had one!
No never had one – just don’t think I had the imagination for one!
I honestly can’t remember whether I had an imaginary friend as I’m about 147 now. POD however has a couple that appear randomly when you least expect them to. We’ve had a visit from Lucifer for example when we’ve been on a train and she has a cat that’s dropped down from the ceiling of all places before. We’ve not seen either recently, I presume Baby Annabel must have eaten them x
i never had one
No, I never had an imaginary friend.
My imaginary friend was a boy called David
I didn’t have one but I talked to my teddy Eskimo like he was real and took him everywhere xx
I didn’t have one.
No, I can’t imagine why!
No, I didn’t have one.
I don’t remember having an imaginary friend. I wish I had now!
I had an imaginary friend who used to encourage me to get up to lots of mischief and do anything that I wasn’t supposed to do. Everything was of course her fault – not mine!
I think I’d remember if I did, or maybe I just can’t!
I had an imaginary pet dragon named Spike 🙂
I never had one, though that has never stopped me talkingout loud like theres someone there lol
henry ….. he was a giant !
Nope I never had an imaginary fund
Sounds like fun .. but sadly no, I’ve never had an Imaginary friend
I never had an imaginary friend
I didn’t but I had a pet Ghost – he didn’t have a name but at primary school a group of us friends pretended we were witches and that we had ghosts which was a hand mirror reflected on the ceiling hehe.
I didn’t have an imaginary friend, I was too busy talking to the animals
I do not remember having had an imaginary friend although I could have done with one at times!
Think I might try this. My two youngest daughters dance and are forever getting bumps and bruises. – They are also looking forward to the film
I didnt really have imaginary friends but in my nans house in her downstairs toilet there is a small gap about 2 inches at the bottom of the door frame that i used to pretend was a little doorway and 2 mini witches lived inside
Sally and if I was naughty it was always because Sally made me
Can’t think of one