Hey Pandas, Do You Have A Favourite Tradition With Snow?

Whenever it snows for the first time, I always take a picture before going outside with my coat and just enjoying it. Snowflakes are so pretty ❄️

When I was a kid, my parents would take us to go sledding down/snow tubbing a hill near our place when there was enough snow on the ground.

After that, we'd get hot chocolate at home.

Accidentally fall and then lay there for a bit.

Avoiding it. I moved farther south three times.

Yes. I stay nice and warm inside viewing the snow. The cold snow and ice stays outside trying to entice me to venture out.

The first thing I do is make a snow angel. It doesn't matter where I am. I jokingly posted something about making naked snow angels while I was at work. Then went out fully clothed and made one. A few coworkers posted pictures of my angel and that's how rumors happen. It didn't matter that there were witnesses that I was dressed people still think I did it naked. I'm to white to go outside naked in the snow I'd blend in.

When it snows I sit in my recliner with a hot drink and cookies and watch the snow fall, making everything look peaceful and serene. (I am 81 and well past the building snowmen and snowball fights age.)

Maple syrup candy. I live in prime maple syrup country, and I grew up (and still live) on a farm that has about 40 acres of maple forest. Needless to say, my family has always made and sold lots of maple syrup. Anyways, we always pour hot maple syrup into a bowl of snow, and it creates this delicious taffy-like candy. And for those who are wondering, homemade maple syrup does taste way better, especially right off the stove.

It doesn’t snow very much or very often, so the few times it’s snows enough to stick our tradition is freaking out and getting way more excited than we should over snow.

Yes… between December and February, bitterly complain that there is no snow as we burn our feet trying to get from the car park to the waters edge on sand that is only slightly cooler than the surface of the sun!

I used to take my dogs on a nearby field and let them play in the snow and throw snowballs for them to catch. Sadly I can't do that anymore, but it was a nice tradition for the last 16 years

The first-snow-snowfight between the village I where grew up & and the nighbour-village. Literally everyone who was able to leave the house - from the youngest, to the oldest - is fighting. One village against the other.
In the end there will be mulled wine for everyone and a few bonfires to warm up again.

There is a similar tradition in the district, where I live now. The first snow will cause havoc in the evening because everyone ist fighting all over the street. Sadly there wasn't enough snow to fight the last few years. :(

Is chucking snowballs at my friends a tradition?

Snow caves!
We'd tunnel into huge snow piles and make a room with couches, chairs & tables, all out of snow. Sometimes we'd have 2 or 3 rooms, connected by more tunnels.
We'd bring food from home & hang out for hours & carved wall niches for decorations, made from things like pinecones & twigs and to hold our "provisions".

We'd also get the "Snow Cave Lecture", about that time "little Timmy was buried & had to be dug out" from our parents/guardians.
It was a valid safety issue though & the fear of collapse made playing in the caves a bit more exciting.

Aboveground snow forts were made for epic snowball wars, complete with trenches.

When we lived in an apartment with a pool with an outside door, we'd roll in the snow (in bathing suits) then run back in and jump in the hot tub. Then, we'd rinse and repeat.

Snowcream 😋
1 cup snow
1/2 powdered sugar
A bit of vanilla

Simple and delicious

I go sledding and we live by this park. There is this small secluded area with a great hill. Everyone goes there so there are a TON of sled paths. People make little ramps and when it's not too crowded sledding there is SUPER fun.

Daughter in-law is from the Lakota Nation and it's custom to roll a new baby in the first snow.

eat it

It doesnt snow much where I live but usually I just like to toss snowballs at stop signs and my friends