Snowstep hearts

Years ago, I discovered that if you step in the snow twice—one print overlapping the other—it makes a perfect heart.

While waiting to pick up my first-grader at the school entrance, most parents are socializing. I’m off to the side by myself making shoe hearts in the snow.

Schools are such freeing places. The building is bursting with creativity inside. I like the notion of expanding that creativity to outside the school.

What should this technique of stamping hearts in the snow be called?

Literal / straightforward

• Shoe hearts
• Boot hearts
• Snow hearts
• Footprint hearts
• Heartprints
• Double-step hearts

Playful / punny

• Sole hearts
• Love by the foot
• Step & heart
• Heartsteps
• Solemates (for the pattern)
• Loveprints
• I love shoe.

More poetic

• Winter heart stamps
• Frosted hearts
• Snowstep hearts
• Footpath of hearts
• Hearts in the cold

Slightly quirky

• Stomp hearts
• Booty hearts (if you want a joke)
• Tundra love marks
• Snow smoosh hearts
• Boot-kissed hearts

Whatever the name ends up being, I like that something as simple as two steps can leave a little moment of warmth in the cold. A tiny reminder that even footprints can make art.