Today Kanga asked if we could go out and build a snow man. It's been a couple of days since we had fresh snow and even then it was more powdery than anything else, so I was a little skeptical. But trying to be a good dad I suited up and joined her. As soon as I got out there I was impressed that the day before she and Tigger had used an old beach pail to make Snow-henge.
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They packed the snow into the pail and then flipped it over to make this quartet of what Kanga called "snow castles." When I got out there she was pouring water on them "to help them stay longer." We got started on a snowman as soon as she was done.
According to Kanga, the way you build a snowman is to make a big base, then a round belly, and then put the head on top. Then you add a hat, scarf, and other things to decorate it. We used her little snow shovel to pile up a decent sized cone of snow. It was crusty enough that I could cut blocks from it but we somehow got it to pack together. After a while she said it was time to work on the body, so I started to make a ball to put on the cone. There was no way to roll it, but, again, we managed to get the snow to stick together enough that it held when I picked it up. She helped me cement it on with more snow and then we made the head by packing the bucket really full of snow and plopping it on top. The hat hides the flat top, and it doesn't look too bad.
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We used old pears that had shriveled to the size of marbles for the eyes and our neighbor's tree had a branch break that gave us the arms. The two other things on it's face are seashells that have been hanging around from the last owners. Originally, Kanga was going to use them for the mouth, but when it was clear there was no good way to do that she went with using them for rosy cheeks. So there you have it, the Kanga approved way of building a snowman. I'm glad that this old dog can learn new tricks.
According to Kanga, the way you build a snowman is to make a big base, then a round belly, and then put the head on top. Then you add a hat, scarf, and other things to decorate it. We used her little snow shovel to pile up a decent sized cone of snow. It was crusty enough that I could cut blocks from it but we somehow got it to pack together. After a while she said it was time to work on the body, so I started to make a ball to put on the cone. There was no way to roll it, but, again, we managed to get the snow to stick together enough that it held when I picked it up. She helped me cement it on with more snow and then we made the head by packing the bucket really full of snow and plopping it on top. The hat hides the flat top, and it doesn't look too bad.
We used old pears that had shriveled to the size of marbles for the eyes and our neighbor's tree had a branch break that gave us the arms. The two other things on it's face are seashells that have been hanging around from the last owners. Originally, Kanga was going to use them for the mouth, but when it was clear there was no good way to do that she went with using them for rosy cheeks. So there you have it, the Kanga approved way of building a snowman. I'm glad that this old dog can learn new tricks.
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