Snow Day Snack

God bless Hubby's uncle, who came and cleaned our furnace so that it would stop sounding like an explosion (although he came at 4:30 a.m. and did a whole lot of banging). I am so thankful for a heater that works, but I am ready to thaw out. My children keep begging to play in the snow, and I just can't stand the thought of being outside. I did finally go buy some snow boots, eradicating the excuse of not having shoes that I can play in. Unfortunately, when you wait until January to buy snow boots, this is your only option. I am pretty sure they are men's boots, but Hubby disagrees with me. The good news is that they were 50 % off.

So since I keep avoiding the actual snow, I find myself doing "snow" activities indoors. First, we "played in the snow" with shaving cream in a cookie sheet. The diggers plowed paths for the princesses so they could go to their ball at the castle. My job was to give the princesses nice warm baths (at the sink) when they got snowy. Then we made snow cream. Yummm... Today we had this for our snack.

I got this idea from http://www.familyfun.com/ and adjusted it a little. The stick is one of the chopsticks that the girls were supposed to wear in their hair on Halloween. The giNORmous hat is an apple wedge cut in half and a grape. The body is made of thick banana slices. The scarf is made of fruit leather (which I naively called fruit roll-ups until yesterday when I was just a child). Since I couldn't find mini chocolate chips, the eyes and mouth are made of chocolate sprinkles, and the nose and buttons are colored sprinkles. The arms are broken pretzels.

That was fun. Now I'm ready for sunshine snacks. How about you?