On Snow:
There's an old Quebec tradition of filling pots and pans and tupperware with water and food colouring, putting them outside to freeze, and then building huge iceforts. When you run out of blocks, you get hot chocolate, and put out more water to freeze for tomorrow
. It was the only time in my life I was ever satisfied by the size of a blockset.
If she's interested in... LIGHTSOURCES... she should have fun with that
I remember really well, being at Winterlude well after dark (and you should have plenty of dark to play with up there) with torches and candles and electric lights, and thousands of ice blocks and a whole bunch of kids.... numinous as well as intellectually pleasing! Where I live now isn't really cold enough for that <pout>. And they don't do as good a job of it at winterlude anymore.
(The trick to getting really clear ice can be found online, it has to do with managing the water temperature, and then leaving them very still in the coldest place you can find... I don't remember all the details.)
-Mich
(On shipping: can you gang-buy with people? sometimes that helps)
(I just procrastinated on my chores by putting out a dozzen ice blocks. They won't stay clear around here, but they should at least freeze)
