Igloos and Beyond

 

You can still buy sugar cubes in the grocery store, and that's good, because they're among the most wonderful building blocks ever devised.

 

You can use humble little sugar cubes as "ice blocks," and mortar them together with water or a little corn syrup, to build everything from igloos to castles.

 

Among the ways to get interestingly-shaped structures, you can pour water into forms - sandbox toys and plastic tubes and cups and kitchenware and just about anything -- and freeze, then pop out of the form and add to your ice and snow project.

 

Can you build a tiny replica of the fabulous structures that are in the annual Winter Carnival in St. Paul, Minnesota? Take a look:

 

http://winter-carnival.com/

By Susan Darst Williams • www.GoBigEd.com • After School Treats 005 • © 2006