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How to Make Stacked Ice Sculptures

by Jean Van't Hul
July 9, 2025
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Colored ice sculptures are a fun and easy 3D art project for kids! Kids can stack the ice shapes and refreeze for a beautiful ice sculpture.

Updated July 2025

Aren’t these ice sculptures lovely and colorful?! They are super fun and easy to make and are a great building activity for either indoors or outdoors. We like to do them indoors when it’s winter and outdoors when it’s a hot summer day!

We made these colored ice sculptures by freezing water dyed with liquid watercolors or food coloring in various containers.

Here’s a video showing how to make these fun sculptures; and be sure to keep scrolling for step-by-step instructions.

How to Make Stacked Ice Sculptures

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MATERIALS

  • Cups, muffin tins, containers and bowls of various sizes and shapes
  • Water
  • Food coloring or liquid watercolors

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Dye and freeze water

    Start by using either food coloring or liquid watercolors to dye your water. Then pour your water into various containers and freeze.

    ice sculpture materials

    We used an ice cube tray, a muffin tin, various small bowls, and some plastic cups.

    ice sculptures in freezer

  2. Play with your ice shapes!

    Once they are frozen, run the containers under warm water to loosen and remove the ice. You can use the ice shapes in a sensory play bin or take them outside and create sculptures with them!

    ice sculptures

If you want to save your sculpture, you can put it back in the freezer. Or if you are making one during the winter, you can leave it outside!

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