Snowman Soup – A Winter Family Tradition

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Vaseline. All opinions are 100% mine.

A Fun Family Tradition for the First Snow!

If you’re a follower here at B-Inspired Mama, you know that I’m a huge fan of family traditions. I truly think they help families connect and ensure kids build positive memories. I love building fun traditions around the holidays throughout the year. But after seeing my kids revel at the first snowfall of the season, I decided to come up with a “Winter’s First Snow Family Tradition,” too. Here it is…

Snowman Soup – A Family Tradition for the First Snow of Winter

B-Inspired Mama sponsor, Vaseline, sent me a cool “healing package” for winter that included their Vaseline Intensive Care Advanced Repair Lotion and some yummy GODIVA Hot Cocoa. (You can find out more about the awesome Vaseline Lotion below.) So I decided to use my new GODIVA Hot Cocoa to make Snowman Soup with the kids. Here’s what we used…

Ingredients:

• hot chocolate made using GODIVA hot cocoa and warm milk
• marshmallow creme
• mini marshmallows
• candy eyes (found in the cake and cookie decorating section of the store)
• candy mustaches (also found in the cake and cookies decorating section of the store)
• orange candy coated chocolate (or any other orange candy)
• chocolate wafer straws
• snowflake sprinkles

Steps:

Have the kids help turn their boring old hot chocolate into “Snowman Soup” by adding a dollop of marshmallow creme and some mini marshmallows. Then as the candy eyes, orange candy nose, and candy mustache to the sticky marshmallow creme to build a snowman. Finish it off with a wafer straw and some snowflake sprinkles. ENJOY your Snowman Soup!

More About Our Sponsor, Vaseline:

A special thanks to Vaseline for inspiring our new Winter family tradition. While the kids were warming their hands and bellies with their Snowman Soup, I was pampering my cold, dry hands with some Vaseline Intensive Care Advanced Repair Lotion. Vaseline Intensive Care Lotions are fragrance-free and contain healing micro-droplets of Vaseline Jelly to deeply moisturize to heal dry skin in only 5 days. And keep skin healed for up to 3 weeks! Vaseline even sent along some cool test strips to see the different in my dry skin over a 5 day test.

The first strip on the left – after being applied to the back of my hand for 3 seconds – shows tons of dry skin flakes. The strip on the right show NONE after using some lotion. Each day, the pre-lotion test strip shows less and less dry skin flakes. SCORE! So this Vaseline Intensive Care Advanced Repair Lotion will definitely be a winter essential for me in our dry wood-heated home. If your skin needs some Winter pampering, too, you can find Vaseline Intensive Care at mass retail outlets with a suggested retail price of $2.99-$8.49.

Do you have any winter traditions? What is your favorite family tradition? Share in the conversation in the comments below!

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About Krissy Bonning-Gould

Krissy Bonning-Gould is a former art teacher turned full-time mama of 3 who authors B-Inspired Mama to share inspiration for simple kids crafts, family recipes, learning fun, and creative parenting.

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