Favorite Things to Do in the Snow 

By Parth Sharma and Landon Smith , Grade 6

Skiing Yes - 25.93% No - 7.4% Never Been - 66.67%

Brief History - Skis were used all the time by Scandinavian farmers, hunters, and warriors throughout the Middle Ages. By the 18th century, units of the Swedish Army trained and competed on skis. Before 1840, the cambered ski was developed by woodcarvers in Telemark, Norway.

Sledding Yes - 84.21% No - 15.79%

Brief History - Modern sledding was made in Switzerland in the mid-19th century by vacationing guests who took delivery sleds and used them for recreational purposes. Samuel Leeds made the first professional sled that you could steer in the 1880s, called the Flexible Flyer. The runner sleds forced the weight of the person riding it onto two thin runners where the pressure caused a thin layer of snow/ice to melt as the sled went over it.

Building Snowmen Yes - 88.2% No - 11.8%

Brief History - Snowmen have been around for a very long time, no doubt about it. The earliest documented snowman that was ever found was in the 1380s, but in a book called the book of hours. Though, the first photographed Snowman was photographed in 1853. Even though snowmen's origins and philosophy remain unclear, they have been used to make a point. In 1511, the city of Brussels held a snowman festival.

Snowball Fight Yes - 93.75% No - 6.25%

Brief History - Snowball fights have been around for a very very long time. In 1472, the city council of Amsterdam made it illegal to have snowball fights because of legal reasons of safety. Many places have passed orders that can't really have snowball fights because of the same reasons. The biggest snowball was on January 29, 1863.