If you haven’t seen any snow this year, you can still make a cute snowman. These snowmen on sticks from our fan Meg J. have marshmallows for their 3-snowball bodies, pretzels for arms, Hershey kiss hats, and stripey rolled-fruit scarves. Dots of frosting make the buttons and the happy face. Compared to the real thing, these are a lot less cold and wet, and a lot yummier.
Wee ones: How many buttons are there on the snowman in the top left corner?
Little kids: If you need 3 marshmallows, 1 kiss, 2 pretzels and 1 candy scarf to make a snowman, how many pieces is that? Bonus: If instead of frosting you use mini chips for the mouth, how many chips would you need to bring the total pieces to 10?
Big kids: If you have a bag of 40 marshmallows, how many complete 3-marshmallow snowmen can you make? Bonus: If you use 60 marshmallows to make snowmen, how many pretzel stick arms do they have?
The sky’s the limit: Each snowman needs 3 marshmallows, 2 pretzels and a Hershey kiss hat. If you start with 60 marshmallows, 50 pretzel sticks and 30 chocolate kisses, which ingredient will run out first as you make snowmen?
Answers:
Wee ones: 3 buttons.
Little kids: 7 pieces. Bonus: 3 mini chips.
Big kids: 13 complete snowmen (39 marshmallows), with 1 marshmallow left over. Bonus: 40 pretzel sticks, since you can make 20 snowmen.
The sky’s the limit: Marshmallows will run out first. You have enough marshmallows to make just 20 snowmen, but enough pretzels for 25 snowmen and enough kisses for 30 snowmen.
