Ever wanted to barricade someone in when it snowed? Or build an igloo? Here’s the simple solution.

Snow bricks, bricks are the foundation to the vast majority of structures and architecture. Snow buildings are no different.

You’ll need a wheelbarrow, a spade and some warm clothing.

Pack your wheelbarrow with snow, right to the top, and compact it down until it’s strong and slightly icy. Then, using your spade, slice down, dividing your wheelbarrow into two or three rows. Now depending on the width of the wheelbarrow you can take those blocks out, or divide them in two. Essentially this is your snow brick, if you have a deep wheelbarrow you’ll want to make it half as deep.

Now it’s all fairly common sense. To build a wall just stack your bricks and use remnant snow as cement. Make sure you make a bit of a base at the bottom otherwise it’ll topple too easily. To make a square house is easy, build four walls. It’s the roof that’s the tricky bit, I tend to cheat by placing wooden planks or even a sheet of MDF across the top and just packing loose snow on top to make it look nice. It’s a bit crass, but it works.

Badabing,badaboom and voila, you have yourself a snow structure.