How to celebrate a SNOW DAY

Today I am having my first snow day off from school this winter.  I live in an area that receives a pretty good amount of snow each year, but this year we have been way under our usual totals .  Meanwhile in areas that are south and east of us, have gotten way more than their share.   

Based on the national weather map, there are MILLIONS of kids who are celebrating having at least one snow day this week.  Ten years ago almost to the day, I shared the Snow Day party that I threw for my kids here on the blog.  All of the ideas, and treats are still perfect for today, so I am sharing them again.  

In the picture at the top of the page, we built a snowman using styrofoam balls, pipe cleaners, google eyes, and scrap fabric. 

My daughter and I made the drinking cups but drawing snowman faces and names on them.  

I covered the table with white craft paper and gave the kids cups of crayons to draw winter themed pictures. 

We cut up printer paper into several snowflake designs that we could hang up. 

We had a create a snowman station out of marshmallows, donuts, pretzels, candy and food writers. 

Here is just one of the yummy finished treats.  

Our food was entirely snow related as well.  Most of the ingredients I already had on hand. 

We made snowman pretzel rods by dipping them in white chocolate and adding mini chocolate chips and gummy candy.  The bears are sledding on Nilla wafers in vanilla pudding bowls. 

The snowmen pizzas were made with English muffins and mozzarella cheese.  The faces are black olive slices and piece or orange pepper. 

Slice bananas, mini chocolate chips were easily put together as snowmen on a stick. 

To warm up after playing in the snow we enjoyed hot chocolate with lots of mini marshmallows. Yum! 

Over the years I have had a few other snow themed posts that were not included in the original party, but would be a good addition to your snow day celebration.  

snowman pretzels

Olaf the Marshmallowman

Elsa's Ice Candy

Sweet Snowflakes

   sock snowman

Happy Snow Day and STAY SAFE! 

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Norm of the North Cookies - Dare to Share Feature of the Day

This weekend the new family movie Norm of the North is being released.  If you have kids it may be part of your weekend plans to go see it.  Angie from The Country Chic Cottage shared at the Dare to Share party this week how to make these really cute Norm of the North  cookies. They are not that hard to make, and would be fun to make before or after the movie. Even if you do not plan on seeing the movie, polar bear cookies would be a great treat for a snow day, or zoo party.  Stop over to The Country Chic Cottage to see how to make them. 

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Sweet Snowflake Treats

Where I live we are still pretty much stuck inside.  Tomorrow will be our third day off of school because of snow, icy roads, and extreme temps.   Since I am still not able to get out and get some of the supplies I was hoping to, I am going to revisit on of our favorite treats for a snow themed party. 

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It's a Frozen Party!

Did you see the movie Frozen yet?  We finally had the chance a few days ago.  Even though we got a lot of snow on the pre-scheduled date, Kara and I braved the snowy roads and cold to meet some friends for the movie. We were both very glad that we did..  We LOVED it!  Part of the reason why this movie is so much fun is because of the lovable snowman Olaf.  This picture of this adorable scene was taken at our local movie theater. I am going to try and make a smaller version during Frozen party week.  

We are currently snowed in at my house  just like Arendelle was in the movie, which makes the timing of this party even more fun.. (though some of my ideas will have to wait until we dig out enough to so I can get to the store.) The scary thing about this picture was that it was taken about 4 p.m., it is now 11 p.m. and we got a lot more snow.  I will share the after picture in the next post.  Tonight on the news they were saying that my area got at least a foot of snow of today.  And unlike Elsa.. the cold does bother me anyway! 

For this first day of Frozen week, I am going to share some of the highlights from my Snow Day/Snowman party from a few years ago. Any of these ideas would work  with the Frozen party theme as well.  You can see the full post of the party here.

I made a snowman centerpiece out of styrofoam balls and basic craft supplies.  You can see how to put him together in this post here.    I drew snowman faces on styrofoam cups and write the kids names on the back, so they could keep track of their own cup. 

I went through all of my goodies, and made a make a snowman bar. I put out anything that the kids could use to make an edible snowman.

Here were some of the creations we came up with.  They were fun to make, and fun to eat.  

The kids also loved their snowman themed lunch. We had snowman pizza, snowmen made from bananas, pretzel snowmen, and teddy grahams sledding in bowls of vanilla yogurt. 

Stay tuned for more ideas to come! 

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Its a Snowman-Snow Day Party

Surprisingly, living where we do in Michigan, we have not yet had a snow day. This winter has been a lot more mild than we can remember, and the snow melts within hours of falling.  The weather channel is even talking about this unusual lack of snowfall.   While we have not had the chance to make a real snowman, the kids and I put together a snowman themed party  with ideas that can be used if we actually do have a day off of school.    Yesterday I shared how I made the snowman centerpiece here.  Also pictured in this photo are the snowman drinking cups that Kara and I made.

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