The hippo's head
The Slide part
A side view of the whole hippo slide
The stairs built into one of the back legs (it's hard to make stairs out of snow that are two year old friendly)
The stairs
With all of the snow we got last year, Callan and I made a whale out of snow. He still remembers that quite clearly and yesterday he asked me to make him another one along with a rhino, a hippo, and an alligator.
Well today Renee took Kinsley and ran some errands while Callan and I went out to construct a snow rhino.
We started to construct the four legs and the back. I didn't know how to put the head so that it wouldn't fall off. I decided to have the rhino in a head down grazing position. Two of the neighbor boys decided to help out too. While I was piling on the snow, Callan was using his mini shovel to scoop snow. Most of the time he decided to sit under the rhino's legs. It was like a little fort.
I finally started sculpting the rhino and it was looking decent until I was shaping the rhino's snout. The whole thing collapsed, and I just saw two little legs sticking out. Luckily Callan was only scared and not really hurt. I admit I did panic a little and almost had a hernia lifting a giant rhino shaped chunk of snow off of my son.
I thought our little outing was over, but Callan said he wanted to stay outside. Seeing a need for more safety in my snow structures, I filled in the rhino's legs and made a hippo. We decided to make a hippo laying down with a slide and some stairs built into the back. It didn't look bad and Callan really enjoyed it. It ended up being 5 feet high and 11 feet long. Between the rhino/hippo and shoveling yesterday my back is gonna need a break.
Sadly some of the neighbor boys were playing on it and then knocked down part of it on purpose. I got to play the wonderful role of "hey you kids get off that hippo" guy. Oh well, at least we made a memory.
I will post pictures of it soon.
Well today Renee took Kinsley and ran some errands while Callan and I went out to construct a snow rhino.
We started to construct the four legs and the back. I didn't know how to put the head so that it wouldn't fall off. I decided to have the rhino in a head down grazing position. Two of the neighbor boys decided to help out too. While I was piling on the snow, Callan was using his mini shovel to scoop snow. Most of the time he decided to sit under the rhino's legs. It was like a little fort.
I finally started sculpting the rhino and it was looking decent until I was shaping the rhino's snout. The whole thing collapsed, and I just saw two little legs sticking out. Luckily Callan was only scared and not really hurt. I admit I did panic a little and almost had a hernia lifting a giant rhino shaped chunk of snow off of my son.
I thought our little outing was over, but Callan said he wanted to stay outside. Seeing a need for more safety in my snow structures, I filled in the rhino's legs and made a hippo. We decided to make a hippo laying down with a slide and some stairs built into the back. It didn't look bad and Callan really enjoyed it. It ended up being 5 feet high and 11 feet long. Between the rhino/hippo and shoveling yesterday my back is gonna need a break.
Sadly some of the neighbor boys were playing on it and then knocked down part of it on purpose. I got to play the wonderful role of "hey you kids get off that hippo" guy. Oh well, at least we made a memory.
I will post pictures of it soon.
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