Hey, it’s that time again. Gotta’ share Santa’s workshop creations this year.
Item 1 – (500) 1x2x3/8″ hardwood dominos – no dots; just for knocking down. Made from white oak, walnut, and jatoba scrap.
Item 2 – adjustable stilts. Two rake handles, crutch tips, and some leftover cypress chunks
Item 3 – See-through veggie garden for my green thumb boy. Idea is that you fill between the panes with potting soil or gel medium so you can see the roots grow. Leftover Lexan from some signs, and a piece of AZEK 1×8; PVC glue.
Item 4 – kid sulky. For the kids to drag each other around the yard. Two more rake handles, some more crutch tips, a patio chair, some metal angles and a piece of 1″ square tube, and a golf bag carrier. Footrest is 1/2 CPVC and 3/8″ allthread thru it.
Forrest – proud dad
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Pretty cool....but how are you going to rake the yard if your rakes don't have handles anymore?
John
J.R. Lazaro Builders, Inc.
Indianapolis, In.
Put the rake on the back of the sulky and have the kids run in circles.
Do you EVER sleep?
What brand of coffee is it? gawdalmighty you must be a tweaker. LOL
Love ya, merry xmas.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
I have irriatable Vowel syndrome.
Shoot, dude, I did all that this morning. This afternoon I was up on a roof putting down a Seal-O-Flex membrane - it was 70 freakin' degrees here!
I'm gonna' do a top coat tomorrow, just to impress the client by working on Christmas Eve. I'll say something about protecting it form reindeer hooves.
Merry Holidays to y'all, too. - Get that stove re-lit.
Forrest
Forrest,What about the tennis courts?Got to keep the customer happy. What time will you be on that roof?Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood
I think once the dew dries in the shade - noonish? You gonna' fly over like Stan? I'll wave!
Forrest
Yeah, I've gotta get on that tennis court thing - just been diddling around.
Forrest
Those are really cool. Your kids are lucky to get things like that.^^^^^^
S N A F U (Situation Normal: All Fouled Up)
It works! The balance is right
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those are so cool^^^^^^
S N A F U (Situation Normal: All Fouled Up)
this is a game I made for my son when he was 6-7. It's an educational game designed to teach math. You roll the dice and decide which doors to close based upon the number combinations.^^^^^^
S N A F U (Situation Normal: All Fouled Up)
Cool idea - is it your own? I've got a kid that would love that!
Forrest - thinkin' of copyin'
The game goes back several hundred years. Sailors played it as they spent weeks or months crossing the ocean. You begin the game by opening all the doors. The object is to close as many as possible on your turn.I would not use hinges on each door the way I did. Instead maybe drill holes and use a dowell rod or metal rod or something.^^^^^^
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Working on costumes; found a dog harness on the web. Gonna' get exciting!
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Luv it^^^^^^
S N A F U (Situation Normal: All Fouled Up)
Forrest,
You're trying to make the rest of us slouchers look bad by working on x-mass eve!!!
Have a great Holiday=and take some time off.
Walter
Cool stuff, I see where you get your name. I don't think there is much kids like more than blocks.
Dallas
McD
Cool, if you dont mind, and even if you do, I'm going to steel one of those ideas for my son.
And to answer the person that asked how are you going to rake the yard if you use up all those rake handles. I figure your clever enough to know that if there are no rake handles there cant be any raking!
Good job, I'm sure the kids will love what you did.
Doug
Actually, we have ancient pecans and walnuts, which have pretty small leaves. We just grind them several times with the mower, and they dissolve.
Which one you gonna' make?
Forrest
McD
That flower pot idea. My son is always planting something, hopefully not pot, and he thinks it cool to watch the plants grow.
This will give him another insight into how the plant is progressing.
He's in kindergarten and maybe I'll make up several of them and give them to the teacher at his school, they can all watch the plants grown. Doesnt take anymore time to make 15 of them then it does one!
I've done the stilts and block thing, its amazing what $2 worth of scrap will do for entertainment!
They'll remember this long after that Nintendo DDT thing is gone!
Doug
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Here's another kid gift idea:http://www.geocities.com/athens/Forum/7905/gifts/Frank Lloyd Wright attributed his interest in arch to these Froebel Blocks.As your kids might say, those gifts you made are "way cool" -- I especially liked the sully.********************************************************
"It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts."
John Wooden 1910-
McDesign,
Pretty creative and insightful into what kids dig.