If you’re gunning for some serious snowball fights, you better make sure you’ve got a snow fort to help protect you. However, you have to make sure that the snow is in an ideal consistency to make a snow fort. Like snowballs, snow used for snow forts require to be not too wet and not too dry to pack effectively. If the snow is too dry, melt it a bit in your hands. If the snow is too wet, wait for a bit for it to dry out. Got a good snow consistency? Here’s how to make a snow fort.
Snow Bricks
You can make a snow fort by making snow “bricks”. Here’s how.
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Pack snow into a rectangular Tupperware container.
Turn the container upside down on the ground and lay down the brick.
Continue layering the bricks on top of one another.
Fill the cracks in between with snow. Be careful not to send the constructed snow wall tumbling down.
Once the pile gets to a good, stable height, pack in more snow using shovels. (For more information on using snow shovels, read The guide to snow shovel)
You can use long sticks to make the snow walls more stable. Insert them through the top portion and the sides.
Pour water over your snow fort and leave overnight to make it tougher.
Walls
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Make snow boulders from snowballs (). Roll around snowballs until they are big enough to cover you from incoming snowball fire.
Use shovels to fill in the gaps between the snow boulders. Pack the snow in tightly.
Pour water over the established walls and leave overnight to make for tougher walls.
You can make windows in the walls by punching holes through them. Just do this carefully, or else you’ll risk having the whole wall collapse!
Tunnels or Rooms
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To make tunnels or rooms for your snow fort, you have to have deep snow first: The waist-high kind.
Dig through the snow using a shovel or your hands. Do this carefully, as you want to have a remaining ceiling that won’t topple down on you. Make a space big enough to pass comfortably in, preferably a circle-shaped tunnel.
You can make rooms the same way as you make tunnels. Instead of digging a long passage under the snow, make a rounder space using the same method, with your hands or a shovel. Make sure that you leave walls thick enough to prevent collapsing. Punch out holes in the walls to make windows.
Unlike the other methods of making different parts of a snow fort, don’t use ice on snow tunnels and snow rooms. You might need to break out of the rooms and tunnels quickly, and using ice may make this more difficult.