{"id":11077,"date":"2012-01-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=11077"},"modified":"2012-01-01T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:56:12","slug":"in-the-meadow-we-can-build-a-snowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/in-the-meadow-we-can-build-a-snowman\/","title":{"rendered":"In the meadow, we can build a snowman&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy here to talk about snowmen. \u00a0Wait&#8230;Tracy&#8230;the one from Florida? \u00a0What do I know about snowmen? \u00a0Not much about the real ones as I&#8217;ve only built an actual snowman probably 4 or 5 times in my whole life. \u00a0But what I do enjoy is building them through craft projects and activities, especially with my son.<\/p>\n<p>This year his elementary school hosted a Winter Wonderland family night for the K-2nd graders and their families. \u00a0Our favorite part of the night was when we had to make the youngest member of the family into a snowman. \u00a0I did a layout about it using Melissa&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/sweetshoppe\/product.php?productid=22716&amp;cat=475&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Chill Out<\/a> kit too. \u00a0We had to use toilet paper to roll him up and then threw a red &#8220;scarf&#8221; around his neck. \u00a0It was the funniest thing watching all the parents getting dizzy from circling their children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SSD-build-a-snowman600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11078\" title=\"SSD-build-a-snowman600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SSD-build-a-snowman600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SSD-build-a-snowman600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SSD-build-a-snowman600-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SSD-build-a-snowman600-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SSD-build-a-snowman600-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another fun snowman activity that my son likes is to make doughnut snow people (although those don&#8217;t last very long). \u00a0Here we made some with mini doughnuts, doughnut holes, chocolate chips, gum, Reese&#8217;s cups, peppermint patties and potato sticks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowmen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11079\" title=\"snowmen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowmen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowmen.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowmen-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowmen-600x257.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year I want to try some new crafts with the kiddo. \u00a0One of them will be Heather&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/sweetshoppe\/product.php?productid=22546&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">DIY Printable Templates: \u00a0Snowman Box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11080\" title=\"snowman1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman1-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also want to try these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/86123461\/snowman-block-set\" target=\"_blank\">Block Men<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/familyfun.go.com\/winter\/snowman-snacks-crafts-printables-games\/the-a-bottle-able-snowmen-1030092\/\" target=\"_blank\">A-Bottle-Able Snowmen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/275682\/snowman-crafts#\/270774\" target=\"_blank\">Cheesy Snowmen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11081\" title=\"snowman2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman2-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman2-600x257.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have a favorite snowman activity that you&#8217;d like to share, please link us up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy here to talk about snowmen. \u00a0Wait&#8230;Tracy&#8230;the one from Florida? \u00a0What do I know about snowmen? \u00a0Not much about the real ones as I&#8217;ve only built an actual snowman probably 4 or 5 times in my whole life. \u00a0But what I do enjoy is building them through craft projects and activities, especially with my son. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":11078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[141,140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11083,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions\/11083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}