Here’s a quick and cheap recipe the kids will love on a snow day:

Fill a mixing bowl with fresh snow (powdery snow is the best).  While mixing, add milk until  it has the consistency of creamy mashed potatoes. Keep mixing, add sugar until it tastes sweet.  Continue mixing, and add vanilla until it tastes like fresh vanilla ice cream.

Total recipe time: 5 minutes

Total cost: Close to nothing

This doesn’t just have to be with kids. It will also make for a good snack by the fireplace with your significant other.