My favorite cold weather childhood memory was building (or trying to build) snow forts. It was fun, but very tiring when you’re a kid!

Comment by Renae on 11/29/2007 @ 1:24 am

I have two:

1- Trying to build an igloo in the playground of my primary school. It started off with about two of us, and ended up with about twenty people working together. We never finished the igloo in the end, because we started dismantling it to use as ammunition in a snowball fight!

2- Watching our new kitten go out in the snow for the first time. She couldn’t figure out what it was, and kept jumping everywhere rather than walking.

Comment by Chris on 11/29/2007 @ 4:27 am

My favorite winter memory growing up was my younger brother and I taking coffee cans and building snow “blocks” to make snow forts and Mom giving us spraybottles with colored water in them (Kool-Aid of course) to decorate our houses.. It would keep us outside for hours on end and the results were always so amusing.

The best thing now as an “adult” (if I dare call myself one) is watching my young boys learn about the winter. The first year I took my 4 year old out he was 2 and the snow was so deep it went to his chest, we have wonderful video of him screaming his head off for that event, and the littlest who is now 10 months got his first experience with snow yesterday, it was just a few flakes on his face going from vehicle to house but he went hysterical from the cold/wet mess because he hates to be “washed” off no matter what maybe touching his face.

Comment by Katie on 11/29/2007 @ 7:31 am

My favorite memory is of running into a tree at my grandparents lake house one winter. My dad and grandpa had piled the toboggan with themselves, my twin brother and put me right in front as I was the lightest. We soared down the steep hill right into a tree. . .I wasn’t hurt too badly, but it did get me plenty of hot chocolate!

Comment by Annette on 11/29/2007 @ 9:31 am

Definitely going sledding…even though our toes and fingers were always FROZEN by the time we got home!!

Comment by Andrea on 11/29/2007 @ 9:37 am

SOO adorable.

My favorite memory was when I was living in TN.. I must have been about 7 and it actually snowed enough that we could go sledding. Me and my dad pulled that sled all the way to the top of the hill and then he went down without the sled! LOL I laughed soo hard. It was a great day.

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Comment by Angela on 11/29/2007 @ 9:54 am

Oooh, I have been thinking about trying my hand at knitting! love that it comes with instructions and everything I need!

When I was a kid, my brother and I made a snowman and the neighborkids knocked it down in the night. My dad felt bad so he spent a couple hours out there in the dark building us an igloo we could play in so we wouldn’t be sad in the morning!

Comment by Shama-Lama Mama on 11/29/2007 @ 11:23 am

We made snow caves in scouts. Most everyone thought we were nuts, but we gladly dug a hole in the snow and crawled in for the night. It was great. You’d be surprised how warm it is when you’re four feet under the snow. It’s great insulation.

Comment by Michael J. Welch on 11/29/2007 @ 11:24 am

When I was a child I lived on a very hilly street. The hill had two scary levels for sledding. It was a public road but used only slightly and never plowed too
thoroughly. It was loads of fun to slide on this hill. I never got brave enough to go to the higher and curvier level.

Comment by Joyce on 11/29/2007 @ 1:17 pm

My dad made an ice skating rink in our backyard 4 years in a row. I kid you not, the man stood out there and sprayed water on the ground and then smoothed it for us. It was awesome!

Comment by bebemiqui on 11/29/2007 @ 1:18 pm

We lived on a STEEP hill. It is sooooooooooo steep, that when it snows, the city closes it down! I can remember sledding down it!!!

Comment by Christina on 11/29/2007 @ 1:22 pm

My favorite cold weather memory is making snow forts with all of the neighborhood kids.

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Comment by TheAngelForever on 11/29/2007 @ 2:38 pm

My favorite cold weather memory was making snow ice cream. (Just mix together clean snow, vanilla, sugar and milk. So yummy!)

Comment by Karla on 11/29/2007 @ 3:05 pm

building a snowman with my brothers and making snow ice cream with my Dad

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Comment by Laura @ Laura Williams' Musings on 11/29/2007 @ 3:26 pm

Going Sledding and making snow forts with my dad- he would use the hose and ice them over- they stood up for weeks and we would have awesome snowball fights involving the whole neighborhood=)-

Comment by Jenny M on 11/29/2007 @ 3:38 pm

I have several, but I will narrow it down to one story. One year all of the neighborhood kids got together and built and igloo and a fort wall! We had the best time throwing snowballs at each other that day! Cindi

Comment by Cindi Hoppes on 11/29/2007 @ 3:55 pm

I would love to win this for my daughter, she has a strong interest in crafty projects and is great at finger knitting!

My favorite childhood cold weather memory is when my father would put me in his mortar box (where you make concrete) and drag me up and down the hill beside our house making a sled track. Then we would pour water on it in the evening so it would freeze…I had the fastest sled track around!

Comment by Melissa Markham on 11/29/2007 @ 6:24 pm

my most favorite winter memory….we grew up with a pond in our front yard….when it was frozen over, my dad would shovel it off and put a giant spotlight on it so we could skate at night under the stars. What an awesome memory!

Comment by emily on 11/29/2007 @ 7:23 pm

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Comment by janet on 11/29/2007 @ 7:44 pm

We lived on a big hill so we had those cool disc-shaped sleds with rope handles so when it actually did snow it was a lot of fun sliding down the hill. And when I was 15 I got to Tobaggan down a Swiss mountain which scared my father to death but we kids thought it was the most fun! However my one memory of skiing down the bunny slope is not a favorite memory.

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Comment by MelissaN on 11/29/2007 @ 8:20 pm

I grew up in Hawaii so it was never very cold but I do remember one December with my petulant teen friends. We were all wearing wool sweaters and trenchcoats on the beach, wishing it was below 60º…

Comment by Naomi on 11/29/2007 @ 8:47 pm

OMG, this is the easiest question of all so far! My favorite memory is going to my grandfather’s house in the country. He had the PERFECT sledding hill - long and steep with plenty of space at the end to coast until you hit the trees in the woods. We’d grab the sleds from the shed, tromp over to the hill (conveniently close to the house, built on top of the hill) and sled to our hearts’ content. Grandma would have hot chocolate for us when we were done!

Comment by Minette on 11/29/2007 @ 8:49 pm

My best memory of the cold weather was going on a school snow trip to Mt.Baldy. Playing in the snow.. running, sledding, falling! On the way home, I rode in the car with my teacher’s wife. I fell asleep and started drooling! It was so embarassing yet so great! I had the best time.

Comment by Marissa on 11/29/2007 @ 10:53 pm

Hot cocoa with a candy cane as the straw after playing in the snow

Comment by Noreen on 11/30/2007 @ 3:06 pm