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Have a snowball fight
Use it to dam melt water in the street gutter
Pile it
Sculpt it
Tunnel in it
Eat it
Catch flakes of it on your tongue
Make blocks of it and build an iglooStomp huge “crop circles” in it
Write in it
Study a single flake of it
Make a flavored snow cone
Build a fort of it
Follow animal tracks in it
Breath on it and watch it melt
Make a ball and some pins of it and then bowl
Bury each other in it (with supervision)Ski on it
Sled on it
Sculpt a jump of it
Build it into a snow slide or luge run
Roll in it
Use sticks, stones and leaves with it to make fairy houses
Shovel a maze in it
Make snow angels on itPhotograph it
Count its subtle colors
Listen to the different sounds it makes when you step on it at different temperatures
Find a big stick and play snow baseball
Get a spray bottle and some food coloring, and color it
On days too cold to play outdoors, bring a bin of it indoors
Bury colorful objects and/or candy in it and have a treasure hunt
Make candled luminaries of itPlay tic-tac-SNOW on it
Play step-in-my-tracks follow-the-leader across it
Play low-impact tackle football (on soft snow only)
Create a slippery slope (a big cardboard box will do) and simulate an avalanche of it
Have a three-legged race in it
Stage a snowball-rollingcompetition with it
Have a tug-of-war on it
Have a snowball pyramid-building contest
Use earth-moving toys (dump truck, backhoe, steam shovel, etc.) in it
Make circles of it on a tree or rock and have snowball target practice
Build an obstacle course on it (for kids and/or dogs)
Stage a winter-olympics-style series of running, lifting, throwing games with it
Play mini-golf in it
Build a creative snow man of itBuild a fire on top of a tamped-down pile of it and watch it turn into a huge luminary
Set up shop for a snow hamburger and snow hot dog stand
Have a picnic in it
If you have access to a sauna, cook yourself till you can’t stand it anymore and then run out and roll in it
Make silly hats out of it
Before the next snowfall, make a big stencil of a graphic or message, and let the new snow be your medium
Juggle it
Create shadow art using it as a “screen” Help shovel it off of someone’s sidewalks or car who can’t do it themselves
Have an “Oh, that’s cold!” contest: everyone buries one bare foot in the snow, and the last one to pull out gets a prize
Make a fancily decorated “birthday cake” of it (and maybe hide a real birthday cake inside)
Decorate a tree trunk with it
Kayak on it
Make a statement in it
5 comments:
Get in your SUV
Drive far far away from it
Lie in your warm bed in Florida
Reminiscing, missing it, longing to be in it
Jennifer, have you caught cabin fever from a Minnesotan? First you shun it; then you long to be in it. Yup, cabin fever fer sher!
Dear Jeffrey, you are pure delight!! I love this so much. Having grown up in Maine with 5 siblings and 3 - 4 foot snow storms back then, we 6 kids did every single one of these, except the luminaries, miniature gold, hot dog stand, and birthday cake. I read this whole list and can't remember if you added 'make snow angels.' Also, we used to jump out of second story windows into HUGE drifts of snow that were more than half-way up the the house. We all did this with Dad, as there were several times we could not get any of the doors or windows open on the first floor. We LOVED that.
I can really tell how WELL you know your snow. Only people that have lived in real snow country would know all of these things. This was such a rib-tickling read for me. It brought up so many found memories. As kids we would often spend all day out in the snow. We thrilled over the 'school-canceled-due-to-the-storm' days. We loved those snowy winter days as much as the summer days. I think we were impervious to the cold.
Thank you for such a delightful share, my dear friend. I also bookmarked your canoe post. I have read half of it between work and can hardly wait to read the rest. I am LOVING it!!! It is a magical, almost mythical story. I deeply feel your profound bond with that beautiful little Osprey. I too would have salvaged it and kept it forever. I adore your...yes...MYTHICAL...bond with that little canoe. It was much more than 'just' a canoe to you. It was a part of who you are, who you are at your very core. I feel so privileged to See and know that part of you. I deeply feel it and understand it sooo well. Thank you, SO much. Robin
PS: I am suddenly and finally receiving all of your blog posts. I do not know what changed, as I was not getting them, even though I tried to sign up for them. It's a delightful miracle!! Lol :)
Hey Robin - Thanks for your always generous encouragement! No surprise that you, in addition to your soulful embrace of canoeing, are also such a snow-lover. You must dearly miss it down there -- except, I suppose, when you venture up to higher elevations, right? It's a nice, snowing winter here in Minnesota. In addition to few major winter storms, we've been getting a couple inches of new snow every few days. I think we've had about five feet of it so far, and what's usually the snowiest part of winter is yet to come. Wish I could at least send you a box of snowballs! (-;
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