I remember my Dad helping us to build a snow elephant one year in our front yard. My Mom went out at night after we had gone to bed and sprayed it with red food coloring mixed in water in an old weed sprayer. The next day someone called the newspaper and had a reporter come out for a photo shoot of our pink elephant!
The next day they ran an article with the photo... even though it was black and white you could imagine how it looked. So sad when it finally got warm enough for our elephant to melt.