WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg woman made the most of some of the coldest winter days by getting her grandchildren outside to help her build an igloo.
Theresa Toupin’s grandkids visited her Garden City home to see the finished igloo for the first time on Saturday.
She bought small tubs, filled them with water and froze them to create the ice blocks that make up the igloo.
Her grandchildren helped build it, but once it got too high, Toupin took over.
Toupin said she did a few blocks each day for a month, even on the days when the temperature was below -30 C.
“Our hands were getting cold, so when they got cold we went in, warmed up and we’d come back out,” she said. “It was usually right after school, they would come over and we’d do a few blocks and it wasn’t quite as cold. When they’d go home, that’s when I’d come back out and finish off what we were doing.”
Toupin said she melted the ice blocks so they would stick together and used a water and snow mixture to fill in the spaces between the blocks.
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