from garage sales and second hand stores. It's our first baby, and I know she's just trying to help us since we don't have heaps of money, but how do I tell her to stop buying crap? She never asked what type of toys i'll be allowing for my children, or how I plan to dress them.I'd like to dress and raise my own child. She had her chance and it makes me sick when she'd rather give her grandchild used crap from someone else's baby than spend a couple extra bucks to give the baby something new to wear or play with. She even bought used burp cloths?! I told her that all I needed from a garage sale would be a gate for the stairs and other safety equipment, like corner guards and cabinet locks. She didn't listen. She just went out and bought clothes that looked unused :(Help?
Piece of plywood atop metal roller skate wheels pulled by bicycle.
My Husband said he made what they called crates or go carts out of an old wicker baby buggy and he said it really worked well. I never made anything, living on the farm, there would be no place to ride them, but however My brother and I made a raft to float on in the creek. like in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, needless to say we didn't do too good at floating, Lots of wet clothing And a Mother that was mad as a wet hen.
Not orange crates, but a 2X4 with roller skate trucks on the bottom, another 2X4 for the post dowels for the handles. Decorated with bottle caps of course!
If you have access to them: -gown -eye protection (goggles/glasses or a mask with eye shield) -surgical mask
Yes ,Back in the 1940's. We would tack pop bottle caps all over the front of the crate for decoration. Kids were pretty resourceful in those days and we often would make or modify our own toys.One thing some who were lucky enough to have Bikes would do was clip a playing card on the fork so the spokes would flutter it making a motor like noise. There was also a rubber band gun we would make . You would cut up an old inner tube to make the rubber bands and used a couple of scrap pieces of wood to make your gun. you would hook the band over the barrel and stretch it back to the grip.some were quite elaborate and had a crude trigger mechanism,others just released it with their thumb. Good question, I hadn't pulled those memories up for quite some time.They were buried pretty deep.
