A family from Australia pulled out all the stops recently to recreate the Winter Olympics at home during the Australian summer.

With the help from their creative dad, Samuel (9) and Mikalah (11) attempted their own improvised versions of an incredible array of winter events, including snowboarding, figure skating and the skeleton.

"We love the Winter Olympics so much we thought we'd recreate some of the events at home," said dad Jacob Strickling.

"The only problem is that we are in Australia, it's summer, and it never snows where we live. So we had to make do," he added.

We love the Winter Olympics so much we thought we'd recreate some of the events at home. The only problem is that we are in Australia, it's Summer, and it never snows where we live. So we had to make do.
1. We light the flame in Greece using a reflector and the suns rays
2. The winter torch is run all around the world.
3. There is a heavy security presence.
4. So much technology, even a robot carries the flame.
5. A go-kart helps out.
6. In the stadium for the opening ceremony a travelling light rings the giant bell.
7. Our favourite team is of course the Australian team.
8. Followed closely by the Tongan team
9. United we light the flame by climbing the steps and attempting to recreate the giant robotic flame thing. A bit of a disaster
10. Our first event is the snowboarding.
11. Then the figure skating including pirouettes and falls
12. Of course we had to have a bob sled event (in a bathtub)
13. Then the skeleton
14. Downhill ski racing
15. Some more snowboarding (on a wakeski...)
16. This event was interrupted by a blizzard (flour blown out of a leaf blower)
17. Curling is a crowd favourite (even if no one knows the rules
18. In memory of the much loved movie 'Young Einstein' we also slide down the snow in an open guitar case
19. Sadly we come to the end of our Olympic Games and we have to extinguish the flame.

Video by Jacob Strickling and his two children Samuel Strickling (9) and Mikalah Strickling (11). Strickling is a YouTuber with popular channel 'Make Science Fun ' and loves any video projects which have a hint of Science involved.