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RE: #DIY Wooden Spool Outdoor Furniture~Creative and Fun Spring Project~Paint Flowers on Cable Reels
These things are still available for free??
In my my last-century childhood, would stand on them and walk-roll across the lawn, racing to see who got there first.
Thanks for this post! Good idea for up-cycling and brightening the yard!
Well nowadays @carolkean nothing much is free but if you call around and see. They do make for some great summer time outdoor riding toys too!
Not "safe," as outdoor riding toys go, but 1960s-70s parents were not overly protective the way today's parents are. Big, gas guzzling cars had back windows so bigs, a child could stretch and sleep there. I remember cars that did not come equipped with seat belts. Oh, I'm old!
Yeah i'm old too...I remember running around in the back seat hanging my head out the window like a dog in the 60s...And making mud pies...those were the good ole days.
Mud pies!
The play house!
Jars, lids, tins, old pots and pans, old bedding - nothing was thrown away. It was salvaged by children who would lay claim to a corner of a barn or shed and declare it a play house. True joy was the emptying of the brooder house or some other small wood shed and claiming the entire building, 6x8 feet of heaven. Then we grew up, got married, and a brother-in-law designed and built a backyard Victorian playhouse, which his daughter had no part in creating, and it was not a big hit. The whole point of the play house is for the child to create it herself, with found-objects, not things Mom and Dad buy or make. {{wince}}