Snow and Ice Part 3

Last week we had some more cold weather fun, like we did here and here.

We finally got moist enough snow for a snowman. We were so excited…can’t you see it all over Owen’s face? Ha! He wouldn’t smile for some reason.

Of course it melted the next day since we have been having Spring like temps the last few days but it was fun while it lasted.

I told Owen to give him a hug. He didn’t want to actually touch him because he was worried he would get too cold. This picture just makes me laugh so I had to include it. It looks like he is chest bumping him.

It was also moist enough for snowballs.
We had some target practice with our target in the snow. I just filled a spray bottle with water and blue food coloring and sprayed away.

Of course…it turned into a snowball fight afterward.

I got a lot of my ideas from the Parents magazine website. The snowball target source is found here.

Then we had a colored ice cube hunt. I froze ice cubes dyed with food coloring in our freezer. Yes…we have star shaped ice cube trays. 🙂

I hid them all over the yard like an Easter egg hunt. I tried not to make it too hard since the stars could easily get buried and then lost. We actually lost one purple star that way anyway.

The green food coloring almost turned metallic looking which I thought was pretty cool.

We worked on math skills with this one. My five year old had to count how many he had to find by counting the empty spaces in the ice cube tray. As he found some we subtracted them from our “total to find” and put them back in the tray. Owen loved this one.

Go here for the original source.

On another day we built sugar cube “igloos.” Reid, my 2 year old and I, worked on a house.

Owen decided he wanted to make a backyard full of trees for the house. Honestly… I think was more into eating the sugar cubes than building.

After we were done with our igloos we watched Ice Age in our IKEA igloo tent.

This actually an old picture of the boys in our tent from April of last year. I just didn’t get one this last week so this one will have to do.

This picture makes me laugh because unbeknown to Owen, Reid is totally swiping some of Owen’s popcorn while he obediently smiles for the camera. Ha ha. Poor guy.

On another day we filled up some of my bread pans and muffin tins with water colored with food coloring. Once it froze we popped our new colorful ice “blocks” and got building.

Owen built a Christmas tree first.

Then a car garage which later turned into a car track that I didn’t get a picture of.

And lastly…we went ice skating. This venture was great for Owen who had a great time…but not even close for Reid. He hated it. Well… at least we tried.

We have been loving the warmer weather. It got up into the 40’s over here which equals bike riding and scooter riding for us {love, love, love it}, but just looking at these pictures gets me excited for the snow to return in a day or so.

I wish you a warm wonderful day…whether you are steeped in several feet of snow or basking in warm sunny weather!