Wylie Gardiner, left, 5, plays with his sister Sophie, 8, and Jackson Baynes, 7, in the Delaware Children's Museum igloo. Many kids use it as a reading nook.
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Snow has been pretty disappointing this winter in Delaware, if you're a kid. There hasn't been enough to build a good snowball, let alone something bigger and more fun.
That doesn't mean that snow-based creations are out of the question, though. As the Delaware Children's Museum has shown, a little ingenuity and some garbage is all it takes to make a winter wonder-house.
As part of its Winter Wonderland exhibit, the Wilmington museum built an igloo, not out of snow, but milk jugs. Members of the museum collected 279 gallon milk jugs, glued them together and strung Christmas lights through the ...
