Creative Snowmen and Snow Sculptures (9 Photos)

Same snow, bigger plans

Most snow days end with three balls and a carrot. The people behind these photos looked at the same snow and had other ideas. Some of them clearly spent hours. One only needed a mailbox.

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💋 Cold Shoulder — Madison Square Park, New York City, USA 🇺🇸

Someone built a snow couple on a bench in Madison Square Park, in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, and on the sunny afternoon of February 11, 2010, a woman in boots climbed across his lap for a kiss. The snowwoman kept staring straight ahead.

💡 Park Fact: The park once held a much bigger visitor. From 1876 to 1882, the Statue of Liberty’s torch arm stood here to drum up money for the statue’s pedestal, and for 50 cents you could climb a ladder up to its balcony.

📷 Photo: Jim.henderson / Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

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💃 Dancing in the Courtyard

A man and a woman carved from snow, mid-dance between the parked cars of an apartment courtyard. The streetlights turn them gold, and her gown flares at the hem.

💡 Snow Fact: Snow reflects 80 to 90 percent of the sunlight that hits it, the National Snow and Ice Data Center says. Point a streetlight at it instead and white snow throws back the gold.

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📬 The Mailbox Eater

The open mailbox became a screaming mouth, two branches became arms and the eyebrows did the rest. The red flag is still up, so there is outgoing mail in there somewhere.

💡 Mail Fact: The US Postal Service asks people with curbside boxes to clear enough snow for a mail truck to pull up, deliver and drive away. If the carrier can’t reach the box, the mail doesn’t get delivered.

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🍽️ Snack Time

Goggle eyes, stick arms and a small pair of jeans and sneakers hanging out of its mouth. Probably keeps the neighbor kids out of the yard.

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🛋️ The Armchair Snowman

Snow piled up on an armchair outside, and someone added a carrot nose and a dotted smile. No rolling, no lifting. This snowman was already sitting down.

💡 Record Fact: The opposite approach took a whole town. Residents of Bethel, Maine, spent a month building a snow woman 122 feet 1 inch tall, finished on February 26, 2008, and Guinness World Records lists her as the tallest snowperson.

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🐙 Snow Octopus — St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, New York City, USA 🇺🇸

An octopus with its tentacles curled out across the churchyard, photographed on February 2, 2011, in the East Yard of St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery in Manhattan’s East Village. It looks like it crawled out of a snowbank and stopped to check the street.

💡 History Fact: The church dates from 1799, and Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant is buried there, the Historic Districts Council notes. The “Bowery” in the church’s name comes from his farm.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsSnow Octopus2011 · St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, New York CitySnow sculptureEast Village, ManhattanFirst reported Jan 20111According to DNAinfo, an unnamed snow molder built it from the snow covering the church grounds, its tentacles stretching toward the street.DNAinfo2EV Grieve reported, passing on a reader’s note, that the giant octopus was the work of Joey Schaefer.EV Grieve201129 JanReported · DNAinfo201130 JanMaker named via a reader · EV Grieve20112 FebPhotographed in the East Yard · Commons dateRead the full file →

📷 Photo: Beyond My Ken / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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🐈 The Street Cat

A cat traced into the fresh snow of a side street, longer than the car parked next to it. The photo was taken from a window upstairs, with the snow still coming down.

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🪨 A Face With a Stone Chin — By Arkadiusz Andrejkow in Sanok, Poland 🇵🇱

Andrejkow sprayed an old man’s face onto a mound of snow and used a real rock as the chin. He posted this series from Sanok in December 2022, and his own site lists snow portraits going back to 2012.

💡 Artist Fact: Polish Radio calls him “BarnKSY” for the way he paints on old barns, barrels, wooden crates and worn-out wells.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsSnow portraits (December 2022)Arkadiusz Andrejkow · 2022 · Sanok, PolandSpray paint on snowMade December 2022About 15 min each (TVN24)1According to TVN24, he paints snow that has capped jutting concrete, so the paint settles on concrete rather than soil after the thaw.TVN242According to eSanok, citing his own profile, he was impatient for spring and new wall works, so he painted on winter’s “white sheet”.eSanok202218 DecReported · eSanok202225 DecReported · TVN24Read the full file →

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🌳 Up a Tree

This one got snow arms and legs over wooden sticks, then went up a tree in red gloves, a red cap and a pair of Converse sneakers. It has a drink in one hand and no plans to come down.

📷 Photo: Moxfyre / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)