Remember When We Were Young?
When we were little, my brother and I didn’t have video games, hours of television or anything else electronic. We had to create our own fun. Looking back, there were “standard toys” that all the kids used to make that I bet my own children have never even heard of! See if you remember these:
-Take your mother’s bobby pin and bend it into a U shape. Find a rubber band and thread a button on to it. Then place each end of the rubber band on either end of the bobby pin. Wind up the rubber band and carefully place your new contraption into an envelope. Give the envelope to your little sister and tell her she has mail. When she opens the envelope, the button spins quickly, making a loud noise in the envelope. Eeek – a rattle snake!
-Use a pencil to draw all around the edge of a penny. Tell your friend you bet he can’t roll the penny off of his nose and have it land in a circle you draw on paper. Let your friend try several times, until he has plenty of streaks going down his nose. The same can be done with the eye piece of binoculars!
-Remember making “paper trees?” Put a sheet of newspaper on the ground. Starting at the short edge, roll it up. When you have two inches left to roll, place another sheet down on it and keep rolling. Continue until you have about 8 sheets of newspaper rolled up. Then hold your tube upright. Take some scissors and starting at the top of the tube, cut down about six inches. Rotate the tube a bit and cut another line six inches down. Do a total of four cuts. Now, fold the cuts back so you can get to the inside of the tube. Carefully hold the inside paper in the tube and gently pull out. You will have a long paper tree that has lots of play value!
We have a great safety tip for you. Keep your spare set of car keys next to your bed. Then, if you ever hear what might be a burger, simply activate your car’s alarm! This will send the would-be robber away, and immediately wake your neighbors, who will come out to see what is happening!