Here in Columbus we often skip Spring. It seems to go from cold to hot almost overnight. But not this year. We have had chilly nights and 60 degree days and lots of sun and a good bit of rain. But not today. Today was another beautifully breezy day. Only warmer. Which is fine by me. I am a girl of summer!
We filled the baby pool with water and added blue food coloring, shiny star marbles, jewels and a fishing pole and fish.
And after lunch we tried to make bracelets out of old tooth brushes. It didn’t work, at all! I hate when there are directions for a project and it fails.
First we tried to pull out the bristles with tweezers. Ha-If you didn’t have carpel tunnel before you started this project You certainly will when your finished .
Ginger enjoyed trying to do this, but Molly turned to scissors!
So that was the first hint that this project was going to be tough.
Next we boiled a pot of water, added the tooth brushes.
We carefully removed one and with a towel wrapped around the HOT tooth brush, we tried to bend it around the bottom of a glass.
It barely bent, we re-boiled several times. Dancing on chairs and stools seemed to help the time pass.
tried different brands of tooth brushes…. Failure #1
Failure #2, after boiling and bending several times:
Then we Threw in the towel. Actually I threw the now germ free tooth brushes into the stack of cake pans still on the counter from the metal tooling project and headed out to drop the kids at my Mom’s for some cable TV while I grocery shopped.
So my advice is Don’t Try This At Home!!!
But I like the photos from this-they are so unexpected.
Very funny. When I pulled this post up I first scanned down the photos and all I could think is “What in the world is she up to?!?!” Too bad the bracelets didn’t turn out but you get an A for effort. And the fishing expedition looks like fun.
I made one of these a looong time ago, when I was a kid. It worked great. The only difference I can see is that the toothbrush I used was just a plain, clear-ish plastic handle. It wasn’t “rubbery” or very thick either. Maybe that has something to do with it? I do remember it bent very easily…
But it looks like you guys had fun anyway. And wow, that’s a lot of “old toothbrushes”
AMANDA—-We did try the cheap ones too!! They only bent so far. I always save our old tooth brushes -art projects, scrubbing…Don’t worry, I always have a plan. Its a little scary sometimes!! Hee Hee
Oh well, we learn from our mistakes huh? Perhaps toothbrushes are different these days? Who knows. Fun to try though. Love your sparkly blue pool!