Build A Snow Fort With Your Pals Day

Over the weekend it was Build A Snow Fort With Your Pals day. We were so busy that I got too tired to tell you about it. Here in Moonwater Meadow it’s almost always snowy during the winter so we make snow forts and snowball cannons (which almost never work) and hot chocolate launchers (which almost always work).

In the summer it’s build a sand castle day which turns into Try To Get The Sand Out Of Your Shorts Night and Stop Tracking Sand All Over The House Weekend.

If you’re not in the snow or at the beach it could always be Build A Mountain Of Cookies Day! That usually turns into I Can’t Believe I Ate All Those Cookies Weekend.

Today is the day we all gather out in the meadow and build a big snow fort. We use shovels and garbage can lids and whatever else we can find to pile snow up and work our way down.

Once, we built a monster snow mover but that quickly turned into a contest of who could outrun the runaway snow mover monster.

 

 

 
This is what we try to build…

 

This is what it usually looks like…

 

By the time we’re done, everyone is cold and wet and sniffling. And sniffles make great snow fort adhesive but no one really wants to touch it. Out forts usually freeze overnight into a solid block of ice which isn’t that much fun because you can’t stand in it without sliding all over the place. By the next day it’s all slushy and messy which is more fun but we get all wet and sniffles again.

What do your snow forts look like? Notice I said snow FORTS not snow FAWTS. These are different things. Snow fawts are what happens when you eat too many burritos inside your snow fort and you wish you built an escape hatch. But didn’t.