For our February Forest Wardens weekend activity we had the kids do some outdoor cooking.  We had each of the kids pick what they wanted to cook over their hobo stoves they had made at club night. My kids chose spaghetti, a dehydrated backpacking stew and bacon. Our group met at Jackie Parker park.  It was very windy so we had to find a spot that had some shelter.  The park has a Pavillion with washrooms and an area to change into skates for their outdoor rink and ice way.  We set up next to the building so it would block some of the wind and if anyone got cold they could go inside and warm up. We had 9 kids and 8 parents brave the cold.  One of the dads brought an old gas camp heater to show the kids. One of the moms brought a cardboard box oven.  She baked cookies for everyone in it.  A cardboard box oven is made by taking a cardboard box, lining it with tinfoil and placing it over a tray of briquettes.  One briquette is equal to...

For Family Day in February we went back to the Silver Skate Festival in Hawrelak Park in the afternoon to check out the daytime activities. It took a while to find parking as there were already a lot of people in attendance.  We walked through the snow garden and saw the finished snow sculptures. We made s'mores and took a picture to get an Alberta milk cow print buff. Next I took Emma through the snow fort to go down the ice slide.  I was wearing my winter moccasins and the leather slowed us down.  We barely made it to the bottom.  I told Emma she should try going again later by herself. We made our way over to the heritage village.  We made some Bannock,  watched the blacksmith and then popped into a canvas tent to warm up and try some Labrador tea. Then Emma and Andrew tried on some snowshoes and tromped over to another fire where we saw some traditional drumming and a circle dance. After returning the snowshoes we ducked into a teepee t...