It's pretty darned easy to make fanciful, colorful ice sculptures right in your own backyard. All you need is a bunch of containers, colored water, a level surface and a good ol' cold winter.

I've been experimenting making ice stuff and have been really intrigued by soft molds for ice.

So I started filling balloons.

Here's a slideshow of some images, and if you get to the end of the slideshow you can "hear" the balloons: