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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can light up your sidewalk walkway with ice lantern luminaries. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .

If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these luminaries out of ice .

Minnesota Cold Part 19A shows you how to make Ice Glasses and Ice Bowls.

Minnesota Cold Part 19B shows you how to make Ice Candle Holders, Ice Bowls, and Ice Vases.

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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make candle holders, bowls, and vases out of ice. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .

If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these ice orb candle holders made out of ice, bowls made out of ice, and vases made out of ice for your frozen flowers.

Minnesota Cold Part 19A shows you how to make Frozen Ice Glasses and Frozen Ice Bowls.

Minnesota Cold Part 20 show you how to make Ice Luminaries for your winter party.

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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make glasses and a punch bowl out of ice. . Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .

If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these frozen ice glasses and punch bowl. I also show you how to make the slushy punch to drink with it.

Minnesota Cold Part 19B shows you how to make Ice Candle Holders, Ice Bowls, and Ice Vases.

Minnesota Cold Part 20 show you how to make Ice Luminaries for your winter party.

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Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can make maple syrup candy in the snow. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler

Materials:

• Tall Pan
• 100% Pure Maple Syrup
• Candy Thermometer
• Snow

Steps:

1. Pour a cup or two of 100% pure maple syrup into a tall pan.
2. Turn the heat to medium-low.
3. Slowly simmer the syrup until is reaches 235 degrees F (113 C) . This takes about 25 minutes. See the video for how the bubbles change as it nears that temperature.
4. Bring the pan outside and pour into the snow in long strips.
5. Lift from the snow and enjoy!

Helpful Hints:

• Don’t use a short pan. Don’t set the stove to high. (See the video for what happens if you make this mistake.)
• Make sure the snow is clean.
• Use 100% maple syrup for best results.

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Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can freeze your trampoline and jump from your garage to break it.  *** Warning. Please do not try this one at home. *** Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .

Materials:

• Frozen Trampoline
• Ladder
• Garage
• A Friend who is Willing to Jump Off Your Garage

Steps:

1. Freeze your trampoline – See Minnesota Cold (Part 13 – Take 1) Frozen Trampoline for instructions on how to freeze your trampoline.
2. Have your friend put on a helmet and protective gear.
3. Have your friend climb onto the top of your garage with the ladder.
4. Say a prayer that he won’t get hurt.
5. Have your friend jump off of the garage onto the trampoline.

Helpful Hints:

• Have the trampoline frozen before your friend gets there.
• Have your friend wear a helmet to stay safe.
• Tell your friend that they’ll be fine.

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Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can make a piñata with water instead of paste. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .

Materials:

• A large bag of candy
• 3 balloons
• Paper towels, cut in strips
• Warm water in a bowl
• 3 shallow pans or large plates
• Knife and/or scissors
• String
• Marker
• Baseball bat

Steps:

1. Blow up the three balloons, making one large, one medium, and one small one.
2. Dip the strips of paper towel in the warm water and cover the balloons. Use the pans or large plates to catch the water under each balloon. Cover the balloons completely with a layer of paper towels.
3. Repeat Step 2, this time placing the strips at a perpendicular angle to the first layer of paper towels. When finished, the balloons should have two layers of paper towels.
4. Set the balloons outside to freeze.
5. Once frozen, bring the balloons back inside. Cut a rectangular flap on each of them and remove the deflated balloon from inside the frozen paper towels sphere. For the largest sphere, keep the tail of the balloon on it so you can later tie the string to it.
6. Take a long piece of string and tie it to the end of the largest sphere. Cut two small holes on each end of the other two balloons. String together the spheres so they are stacked in a column of three, looking like a snowman. Leave extra string on the top.
7. Stuff the parts with candy and cover the openings with more paper towels.
8. Using a marker, draw on the snowman’s face on the top and smallest balloon. Add doodles.
9. With the extra string at the top, hang up the snowman piñata. Take the bat and have at it!

Helpful Hints:

• Make sure the balloons are entirely covered with the paper towel strips when coating them.

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Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can make your own slurpees outside. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .

Materials:

• 2-liter bottle of pop of your choice
• Knife
• Cup

Steps:

1. Set outside the bottle of pop. Put it in the snow to get cold but do not let it begin turning into a solid.
2. While the pop is still liquid in the bottle, remove the cap while still outside. The liquid should quickly turn into a slushy. The time it takes varies greatly depending on the temperature.  At -10 degrees Fahrenheit on the cement or in the snow, it takes less than an hour and a half to go from room temperature to slurpee.
3. Bring it inside, let it thaw for a moment, and then cut off the top of the bottle and pour the slushy into a cup.

Helpful Hints:

• Monitor your pop bottle closely.  Once it begins to ice over, you’ve waited too long.
• The time it takes for the pop to be ready varies greatly with the temperature. Test it a few times with your current temp before showing the experiment to others.
• Handle the bottle very carefully. Jarring the bottle early may cause problems with the freezing effect.
• It does not work well to redo the experiment after the pop has already frozen.
• To speed up the process, cool it in the fridge first.

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Minnesota – It’s so cold that… you can go bowling outside with a watermelon. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .

Materials:

• 10 empty 2-liter bottles
• Water
• Food coloring
• Watermelon
• Permanent marker
• Knife

Steps:

1. Fill the ten 2-liter bottles with water, then add about five drops of food coloring into the water of the bottles. Put the bottle caps back on. Set all of the bottles outside to freeze.
2. On your watermelon, mark three dots for finger holes. Cut out the holes with a knife, draining the watermelon as you do so. (Some water will be inside, of course.) Bring the watermelon outside to freeze as well.
3. Once the water in the bottles are frozen solid and the watermelon is hard, set up your “pins” and go bowling!

Helpful Hints:

• When cutting the holes for your fingers in the watermelon, keep in mind your finger size with gloves on, so make the holes somewhat larger than you would for your fingers normally.