Who hasn’t jumped into the snow after a huge snowfall to build an epic fort or igloo?
Although it’s one of the great joys of winter, most of us lack the skills to actually build a proper igloo, let alone one that won’t collapse on itself.
A Canadian company is hoping to change that while making playing in the snow safer for kids.
Eric Villiard, founder of the Play Snow Igloo — a plastic grid-shaped igloo template that you just add snow to — said he wanted to offer families worry-free fun outdoors.
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Villiard said it was a bad experience of his own that eventually led him to create the structure.
“I was 10 years old and I was building myself an igloo and it collapsed on me,” he said. “Luckily my father was watching me. He came running out the door to dig me out.”
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It took another 30 years before he remembered the incident and acted upon it.
“I have two kids, two small boys… and when I started playing outside with them — flashback, I didn’t want to do this.”
The product was two-years in the making including the design process, but Villiard is hoping to get it off the ground with a Kickstarter campaign.
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