Preserve a snowflake!!!
 

Well APPARENTLY this is how to preserve a real snowflake...

:icecube: Take one piece of glass (yes, I know, not exactly a child friendly activity, but they will hopefully appreciate the results!) - it was suggested you use a slide from a microscope, but I didn't exactly have one of those handy, so I took the glass out of a postcard sized picture frame!
:icecube: Place the piece of glass in the freezer for at least 24 hours (making sure you tell everyone it's in there before they go in grabbing for the frozen peas!)
:icecube: Place a tube of superglue in the freezer too (making sure the lid is securely fastened of course!)
:icecube: When it snows, remove the items from the freezer, and attempt to catch a few snowflakes on the glass! (:rotfl:)
:icecube: As soon as you have a few good snowflakes on the glass, place a blob of superglue over each one.
:icecube: Place the glass back in the freezer asap, keeping it as level as possible so that the glue doesn't run.
:icecube: Leave the glass in there for 4 weeks :wide-eyed yes, 4 weeks!
:icecube:Take glass out of freezer, and there you should have some beautiful little snowflakes preserved forever! If the glass was from a frame, place it back in the frame with black paper behind it! The patterns of the snowflakes are amazing, and the superglue kind of magnifies them! :thumbsup:

(At some point remember to place the lid back on the superglue and remove it from the vicinity of small children!:sarcastic )

Well, of course, I had to have a go, only.... 1) when it snowed, I immediately went to get the glass from a picture frame without freezing it first, 2) left the glass on a wall outside to collect snowflakes on its own (well, it was too cold to be standing out there!) 3) went back out half an hour later only to find that I had a piece of wet glass on the wall!
Well, I should have known! But it was worth a try. Maybe if it's done properly it will work. It really did look good when they did it on the telly!
If anyone succeeds in this, please let me know!!
I now have a piece of glass and some superglue in the freezer on standby! It probably won't snow any more til next winter! :rotfl:

Muggy, I think this says it all - :sarcastic :rotfl: :duck: LOL!

:yes: It did work on the telly, honest! (Cheeky:monkey:!!!)