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

Stomp 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

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

Photograph 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

Play 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

competition with it
Have a tug-of-war on it
50 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 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

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
3 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!
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