At that point, lay a larger flat object that’s the shape of your fort (a piece of plywood, sled) over the entire top to create the roof. When you’re about half way up, use a flat, rectangular object (board or plank) to bridge the gap to create the top of the doorway, then pile on more vertical snow all around until you reach the desired height of the fort.
You can make the structure round or square. Scale back your igloo dreams into a more manageable snow fort. Photo by Walking Geek via Flickr Build a Snow Fort If engineering an igloo seems a bit overwhelming or you don’t have the space, find more alternative outdoor winter activities to keep kids happy below.īuilding a snow fort is a bit more manageable than an igloo. So in that sense, the project worked,” Riedy says. When 60-degree temps and rain took it down, Riedy remained positive. “It was doing what it was supposed to do-get the kids out. “At first I was just doing it, but after a while, all the kids from the street came and I let them take over,” he says. Over the course of four days, he got the igloo up to eight levels. The igloo takes shape, eventually getting up to eight levels. As soon as his bricks were ready to go, Riedy was ready to build. He sprang into action, filling and freezing the 465 containers. One January, he got just the Arctic weather needed. With a plan in hand, he started collecting half-gallon juice and milk cartons from the community. His strategy was to fill half-gallon drink cartons with colored water, let them freeze, release the ice blocks, then stack them in a circle, using an ice/water mixture as mortar.
These cartons contain the frozen, colored bricks for the igloo. RELATED: 40 Indoor Snow Day Boredom Busters for Kids
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But there were no instructions on how to craft it, just a series of images, so Riedy had to come up with his own plan, which he's happily sharing with us. We couldn’t even build a fort,” he says.Īfter an online search for ideas, Riedy saw a couple in Canada build an igloo and was inspired. But Kevin Riedy, a designer and owner of Spot On! Creative Group in Montclair, New Jersey, wanted his kids to be able to still play outside and enjoy the season. Several winters ago, the snowfall was so icy and unusable it didn’t allow for the usual sledding, snowball fights, or snowmen.
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