What study of the Arctic would be complete without making an igloo? We made ours out of sugar cubes and had quite a time with this project. Who knew it was so hard to find sugar cubes? Granted, we don't use them everyday, but we had to visit five grocery stores to be able to locate them. Then, once we found them we discovered making an igloo is harder than it looks.First, the kids didn't think they really needed anything to help hold it together - after all, real igloos are only made with blocks of snow. That didn't work so well. Then, we tried using some white frosting as glue to help hold them together. Somehow our completed igloos turned out looking more like the pyramids of the Amazon instead of igloos, but it was a fun project.
After many attempts, Doodle Bug decided to make a home for some penguins instead, using more of our polar stickers to decorate the inside of her ice house. I like her creativity (c:
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