Cold hands, cold hearts, and other ice decorations

You can make other fun stuff with ice besides ice lanterns.

Freeze a pair of hands in some gloves, and
you can have your ice lantern reaching
out of the "quicksand" for help.

Cheap vinyl or latex gloves will work for this, but heavy neoprene gloves can be used to make more natural-looking hands.

Stick icy hearts onto trees.  Why not?

Rough, thick bark holds the wet snow that I use to glue the hearts in place.  It helps to have cold weather when attaching them.

Erect ice castles

See the pages on funnels and ice castles for more detail.

Do you want to build a snowman?
Maybe not, if you can make
an ice maiden.

Stand some trees in the ice on a baking sheet
and put ducks in the foreground.  Add a little
chilled water to freeze them in place, and set
the finished diorama by a creek full of mallards.

This would look nice with blue LED lighting underneath.

Maybe an ice "gingerbread" house would be fun.  Let your imagination loose and see what happens!


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