Since the friends weren’t sure who the hat belonged to, they did not want to take the hat too far from its fencepost home. Instead, they decided to build a snowman in the particularly snowy field.
They started to roll large balls of snow and stack them. It was hard work, and it took the effort of the whole group to get the third and final snowball on top of the tower. There was a firepit nearby where they found lots of coal, which they used to give their snowman eyes and a mouth. Luckily, someone found a carrot in their lunchbox, which was perfect for the nose, and two large sticks in the forest made excellent arms.
Together, the friends gently placed the old silk hat on their snowman’s head and smiled around at each other for this was, after all, the most magnificent snowman they had ever created! And they had built many a snowperson together…