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Chinese Ice and Snow Festival By Kat Eastwick and Sterling Jerins

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Introduction Do you ever think about the Harbin Ice and Snow festival? Well you should! Heres a fun fact about it, the Ice and Snow festival covers morethan 600,000 meters wow that s a lot! Do you want to hear another fun fact? Well than read this power point. In this power point you will learnabout ice contests, activities and more.

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The Contest

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Other Activities Did you know that there are other activities? Some other activities in the ice festival are the ice garden, the heart of Harbinand the ice lantern contest. The heart of Harbin is a colorfulsensation which is carved like a giant castle. The Ice Garden iswhen people make sculptures so colorful, it looks like a garden ofcolors. The ice and snow festival also has a cartoon week.Some people say the highlights to see are The Grand World of Ice Sun island Park Dance Show on Ice Mias world tour of the ice and snow festival

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City of Ice The people of China call Harbin the City of Ice. The festivals in Harbin are held the 5 of Januaryto the end of February. However, the exhibits mayopen earlier and stay up longer. But not too long wedon t want the sculptures to melt! The festival is established in 1985. The first ice and snow festivalwas held 1963. People vist the ice and snow world atthe opening ceremonony of the 2013 internaitionalice and snow festival in Harbin.

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Ice and Snow The most common ice sculpture is a castle. If you are brave enough you can make a huge snow sculpture. Snow is harderto carve than ice because it is more fragile. People that carvesnow are working on one sculpture for about ten years. That ishow hard it is! Some people that carve ice make slides which areopen to the public. Tip if you go on the slide you will be freezing!

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Fun Facts The ice and snow festivals ice took at least one and a half yearsor more to make. The ice festival gets to about -40 degrees F! You have to wear atleast two coats. The ice and snow festival started in 1963. 2013 was the 29 th annual festival. In the ice they use L.E.D lights. People say that when they go that are freezing but it is worthit. The Chinese ice and snow festival is the biggest ice festival inthe world.

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Concluding statement and hyperlinks In conclusion, the ice and Snow festival is a great place to visit in China if you are there during winter and if you happen to be near Harbin.Feel free to check it out! If you want to hear more hear are some hyperlinks to check it out. the BIG picture :http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/01/harbin_international_ice_and_s_1.htmlhttp://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/01/harbin_international_ice_and_s_1.html Harbin 2013: http://www.icefestivalharbin.com/ http://www.icefestivalharbin.com/ Fun facts for kids Harbin:http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/sandre/harbin_ice.htmhttp://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/sandre/harbin_ice.htm Travel China Guide:http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/heilongjiang/harbin/ice-and-snow-world.htmhttp://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/heilongjiang/harbin/ice-and-snow-world.htm