Ever hear of a Snow Volcano?

I tell stories to children which I make up on the spur of the moment. One of my characters is "Jungle Boy".



Our grandson, Daniel (almost 4), is enthralled by my Jungle Boy stories.

Recently, I told him one which had a mention of a "Volcano". He was fascinated by the concept of burning fire and lava pouring out from a crater on the mountain top. We now look at pictures from an encyclopedia of volcanoes. He has great pleasure in looking at them, again and again.

When Annikki was creating the Mobile Snowman in their garden, there remained the ruins of an igloo that Samu and Daniel had made. It was in the shape of a small mountain.

Annikki always has ideas that are generated by the surroundings, and as Daniel had been asking her about volcanoes, she and Samu thought of creating a volcano out of the snow mountain.

Samu dug out the top to form a crater. Annikki provided the candles of different colours.



Last night, in the grandchildren's garden, we had a raging snow volcano with smoke pouring out of the crater and the coloured lava flowing down the side.