Hair: I didn’t expect anyone to get this, but I certainly expected someone to try! The hair is limp, rotting dill weed that I dug out of our produce drawer. I think we bought it fresh in September and used some of it once when we made salmon.

The nose: A celery stick. Of course!

The mouth: Small stones from the gravel bed under the deck.

The ears: Apple wedges. Gala.

The eyes: Samantha was right. Beetle dung. Not huge beetles, no, but if you scrape enough of it together you can get a nice, sizable load. Forming the balls of dung took us almost as much time as forming the snowman did, but we found it was worth it, especially when we later read that Beetle dung is edible and loaded with protein:

OR NOT…

The hauntingly-reminiscent-of-poop formations are actually chocolate covered peanut butter balls. This is a recipe that I improvised several years ago with delicious results, and that I tried to recreate a few weeks ago with somewhat less pleasing results. I think I had too much peanut butter and not enough confectioner’s sugar and cereal (the stuff that makes the balls workable) and so my peanut butter balls were more like peanut butter blobs, tasty but a bit unwieldy and too rich to eat, really… which explains why we still have a ton of them in the fridge three weeks after making them. But they make great snowman eyes, and great prop poop, if I were in the prop poop business. Which I am not. Yet.