I don’t know how/who cultivated this Norman Rockwell image of rolling a snowball until it gets bigger and bigger into the perfect snowperson. But if you’ve ever built one, you know that it’s a lot of work and takes the perfect type of snow. Then, even if you do get something going, it often cracks and falls apart once you start ramming in carrots, sticks and other things.
Today, we found a solution…pipe cleaners! Yep, it’s pretty much the perfect child accessory for making snowpeople. It has a strong center, so you can stick it into the snow without too much trouble. And then it bends, twists and adjusts to your beck and call. The kids loved it, and it kept us all from getting frustrated.
For the record, we did expand on the bigger snowperson by adding buttons, yard (for the hair) and lemons (for the eyes). It was fun looking around the house to see what we could recycle to make our snow person.
