Star Wars AT-AT Snow Sculpture I learned with powdery snow that the trick is to pile it up into a mound and just let it freeze. Once it's packed and dense after a week or so of the sun during the day and cold temps at night, it's ready for shaping. This AT-AT I created using a Fiskars tree saw for the shape and a flat head screwdriver for the detailing.
Lumos! We took a crack at sculpting Hogwarts from the Harry Potter films with all of this snow!
Rock Mining Locomotive Snow Sculpture. This one was great fun. I had a long mound of snow that I'd shoveled and just left for a couple of weeks so it would freeze and pack down. The kids riding past on school busses played guessing games while it sat there as to what it was going to be. Most thought a dragon. In the end I made a long train with a bunch of mining carts. The carts are all full of rock that was pretty fun to shape with the Fiskars tree saw. Was hysterical, this one. It was right near the end of our driveway and the road, and people would stop and take pictures in front of it.
