BY ROSE ADAMS
One doting dad made the
most of this week’s nor’easter
by building his 3-year-old
daughter a gigantic Spongebob
Squarepants-themed igloo
— which, of course, she
adored.
“She went crazy,” said Sea
Gate resident Oscar Risco.
“She loved it.”
The southern Brooklynite
said he spent more than 10
hours constructing the ninefoot
tall igloo, which is modeled
after the pineapple house
in the popular kid’s show
“Spongebob Squarepants.”
Risco kicked off the project
on Monday morning, when he
began shoveling all the falling
snow around his property into
a pile in front of his Lyme Avenue
home, he said.
It wasn’t until that night at
2 am when the dedicated dad
began building the enormous
igloo and a smaller structure
beside it that resembled the
house of Spongebob’s neighbor,
Squidward.
Risco fi nally went to bed
sometime after 4 am, but he
didn’t get much sleep, he said.
“She woke up to it; she was
excited about it,” he said. “I
was dragged out of bed.”
Risco, a contractor, said he
began building igloos for his
kids back when his 21-year-old
son was young. The activity
isn’t only fun for the youngsters;
it also gives Risco a creative
outlet, he explained.
“I was always drawing
things as a kid growing up,” he
said. “In the contractor business,
we also create things —
COURIER LIFE, F 14 EBRUARY 12-18, 2021
GOOFY GOOBER: A Sea Gate dad built a Spongebob-themed igloo for his daughter. Sally Ann Luciano
it’s just like the stuff I like to
do on my own.”
Before this week’s storm,
Risco and his daughter, Aliyah,
had decided on their next
igloo’s design, and it wasn’t
long after the snowfl akes
started falling that Aliyah
began asking about the structure.
“She saw it was snowing,
and the fi rst thing she said
was she wanted an igloo,” he
said.
The igloo tradition isn’t
the only way Risco and his
wife entertain the local kids.
Throughout the year and
during special holidays, the
couple hosts activities for the
neighborhood’s youth, the Sea
Gate native said.
“We always try to do creative
things for the kids in the
community,” he said. “We really
attract the entire neighborhood
over.”
A pineapple
under the sea!
Dad builds Spongebob igloo
for 3-year-old daughter
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