It snowed overnight and in the morning Cathy and David woke up to a thick blanket of white fluffy snow!
They could barely contain their excitement.
“Wow, David it snowed last night.” “Cathy, let’s go out and build a snowman. Wouldn’t that be great fun?” They went out to the garden and David started rolling up a big snowball for the snowman’s body.
“Cathy will you make a smaller snowball for the head please.” When she had finished she lifted it onto the top of the body. David patted the snow into place.
They stood back to look at it. “I shall go and find some twigs for the arms,” Cathy told David, while you are working on the face.
“Cathy, I’ll go and get a carrot out of the fridge for his nose. I think it needs to be quite a small carrot.” “It needs eyes and a mouth David, what do you think we should use?”
David found two pebbles for eyes and a twig for the snowman’s mouth. “Cathy, will you go in and find a hat and scarf for the snowman to wear?” She nodded, and he heard her calling “mum, we need a hat and scarf, which one can I use?” She came back out and handed the scarf to David to hold and pulled the hat onto the snowman’s head to keep him warm. The colour looked nice with his eyes.
“Wow Cathy, I love the jaunty angle of the hat. It looks really cute.”
“What do you think of the scarf Cathy?” “I think the snowman looks great” she replied. “Isn’t it fun to have snow!” “What do you want to do next?”
They looked at the snowman for a little while and then David said, “I shall go and get the sledge from the garage.”
David came back pulling the sledge behind him. “Do you want to have a rid Cathy?” Cathy in the meantime had had other ideas. She picked up some snow…
Made it into a snowball and threw it at David.
They had fun throwing snowballs at each other for a while.
“I’ll sit on the sledge first David.” He pulled her along through the snow.
Then she dragged the sledge up to the top of a small slope and sat on it. “Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee…” as she whizzed down towards David. “Gosh that’s fun” she gasped breathlessly.
“It’s my turn next,” David said.
“The snow is really deep,” Cathy said to David as he sped towards her. “I wonder how deep the snow is. Do you think it will still be here tomorrow? I hope it will.” “Wouldn’t that be fun!”
“What have you got in your hand, Cathy?”
“I am cold, I’m going to go in and see if mum will make us some hot chocolate. Are you coming, Cathy?”
“That was great fun! I can’t wait to go out again as soon as I have warmed up.” They headed indoors leaving the snowman behind in his winter wonderland.