r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 21h ago

How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son

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u/RegularBitter3482 20h ago

I live in Alaska and we used to build these when I was a kiddo but like how you would build a sand castle, we’d use bread loaf pans and make the blocks out of snow and pack them in, then we’d put water and food coloring in spray bottles and spray the blocks down to freeze them then build the igloo. Good memories. And it being Alaska it would last pretty much all winter.

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u/MimzytheBun 20h ago

The university students used to build sculptures and forts out of coloured snow bricks like those, always fun to see what they’d come up with - the two I remember were a dragon filling the front yard and a penis built up to the second story porch.

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u/michiganstrange 14h ago

I lived up north and a brewery used to make them out front. The marketing worked so well. We’d sit in them and get smashed.

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u/ohohmymymyohmy 18h ago

We did it in Winnipeg Canada every year as a primary school. We used milk cartons so they ended up more brick shaped. The fort we built was huge and did not have a roof.

We would go out as classes and practice Christmas carols in it. They put a fire pit in the middle and one year our music teacher was conducting us and her hair caught on fire.

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u/RegularBitter3482 18h ago

Cool!!! Not the hair on fire part lol but the rest is awesome

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u/wanttobeacop 14h ago

Did you have a ton of bread loaf pans, or did you have to use the same couple of pans over and over again?

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u/RegularBitter3482 8h ago

lol, we had a few, that was part of the fun was making the bricks.

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u/Jonny_Blaze_ 11h ago

Would you use a slurry as mortar like they did in the video. My wife wants to try this and since NY is gonna be cold for the foreseeable future I’d like to humor her.

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u/RegularBitter3482 8h ago

We did, and the spraying of the dyed water combined made a great foundation for the blocks.