Tuesday Tips!
Tips you love to share with your friends over a hot cup of coffee
The Bedroom As Sickroom
- When you must care for a child who's bedridden, you know that quiet, clean activities are the order of the day.
- To help out on that front, scrounge around for the box from an old board game that no one ever uses anymore. Now hunt up a couple of empty canisters that once held oatmeal or cornmeal. Large ones are best, but the important thing is that the two canisters are the same size.
- Place the first one on its side and hot-glue it to the bottom of one end of the box. Repeat the process, hot-gluing the side of the other canister to the other end of the box to create an instant bed table. Be sure the two canisters are far enough apart that there's plenty of space for the child's legs to fit in between them.
- Still have the tops to those canisters? When you glue the containers into position, place them so that the part where the lid fits extends slightly in front of the box. Then the child can hide all sorts of treasures inside--crayons, markers, perhaps a half-used roll of toilet paper for a runny nose.
- You can place coloring books, plain paper, puzzles and more inside the box. If you don't have a puzzle make your own. If you have an empty cereal box, cut up the front of it, using different shapes like a puzzle. If the front is boring, glue on a picture from a magazine onto the front, let it dry and then cut it up.
Tip was found in the book Yankee Magazine Vinegar, Duct Tape, Milk Jugs and More by Earl Proulx.
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