Well, seeing as the mass helicopter flight project is taking longer than I thought to organise (through no fault of my own, damn hill owners!) I've got to think of something else to keep myself and a bored toddler amused for today.
We shall be doing more work on said helicopter project later, but today, our mission is...
Ice Cream in a Bag!
After seeing this video depicting the ease involved in making ice cream with plastic bags and ice, I set works in motion!
And realised that our large freezer... is actually rather full. And it's not filled with ice cubes, dammit!
So, clearing space in said freezer was cold and not fun. Then the joy of trying to balance the three ice cube trays so as they'd not spill was quite a feat!
Next to gather the ingredients. I googled a fair few recipes and they all mostly said the same sorta thing, so i kinda botched them together to fit what we have:
Of course, after gathering everything, My son and his friend both decided they wanted chocolate ice cream, so the honey and horlicks and the like, all got put back away.
Then measuring out the ingriedients. God only knows that cooking with kids is a hassle in itself, so making it easier when they're involved is a godsend!
* Almost half a pint of milk (240mls, apparantly that's what 'a cup' means in american recipes)
* 2 Tablespoons of sugar
* 2-3ish tablespoons of chocolate milkshake powder (Poor kids, the only chocolate powder we have is reduced sugar 
, and I'll bet it'll taste naff!)
Apparantly all this goes into a wee freezer bag type object. Well, we went and bought freezer bags, but I wondered how the hell were the kids supposed to fill them, without making even MORE mess!
And I remembered our rather ample collection of olde fashioned pint mugs. The bags fit inside and overlap perfectly 
And now for the mixing...
Post apocolyptic mess!
Oh dear god.
By the way, only the wee boy is mine. The girl is a darling who lives nearby, her and my son are thick as thieves
Next was a large bag of ice. And a bit of salt.
Tied it up, with the smaller bags tied up and inside the larger... and take it out and shake it madly.
After about 7 minutes of vaguely vigirous shaking... this is the result:
Methinks mush is a much better term to use for the end result, rather than trying to label it as ice cream.
But they ate it, so all was good.
I really doubt I'll be trying that again soon. i know exactly where I probably most likely went wrong:
* not a specific recipe
* maybe not enough ice and/or salt
But who cares, we all had fun of it. Not every project is going to work eh?