Footprints In The Snow

This is another story from the website I told you about. You should read the website (If you forgot it, then here it is) (https://kids.wng.org/) Anyway, can you guess what the story for this time is? It's footprints! Would you like to read it? Here it is! You can also read it on the website that I gave you.

 

Footprints in the Snow

Thousands of footsteps form a pattern in the snow near Helsinki in Espoo, Finland, on February 8, 2021. (Pekka Lintusaari via AP)

Volunteers carefully placed thousands of footsteps in the snow. Their beautiful snow art caught the attention of many near Finland’s capital of Helsinki.  

Local resident and artist Janne Pyykko directed 11 volunteers as they stamped patterns on a golf course. Each volunteer wore a set of snowshoes. Their organized steps created a series of complex geometric shapes. The center design looks like a starfish. Six huge snowflakes surround the starfish shape.

It took two days to make the large, snowy work of art. The complete design measures 525 feet in diameter! Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat says it could be the largest snow-drawing ever made in the Nordic country.

Mr. Pyykko has created smaller snow illustrations by himself––but nothing this extravagant. “It was both a social challenge and a visual challenge,” says Mr. Pyykko.

When he says “social challenge,” he’s talking about having to lead the group to create the complicated geometrical design. At the site, group members used strings to help make the round pattern shapes. Mr. Pyykko mapped out the patterns for snowshoers to follow on the golf course. The project took a great deal of ground planning.

Of course, the drawing is best observed from the air. And it won’t be around for long. It will last only until the next snowfall or heavy winds erase the footprints. Psalm 147:16 tells us that God commands the snow when to fall. The verse says, “He gives snow like wool; He scatters frost like ashes.”  

 

Isn't it amazing what God can help people do? Sorry if you can't see the picture clearly.