Oral B; We have a Problem
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.
Tags: dancing, Ginger, grocery, Molly, rain, scissors
But it looks like you guys had fun anyway. And wow, that’s a lot of “old toothbrushes”
As for this post, I just wanted to say that I make these bracelets occasionally, and I’ve found that soaking the tip of the brushes in the water as it’s starting to warm up really helps soften the bristles and makes it easier to pull them out. Then when it comes time to bend them, you might try just grabbing each end with some pliers and bending without a glass bottle. It could be that the slightly cooler temperature of the glass mixed with the heat of the fresh boiled brushes is what makes it so hard to bend. It does take a couple of dippings back to the boiling water, but it works if you wanted to try it again.