Ants on a log, our version. We use carrots and today I had black (raisin) and red (craisin) ants. My son isn’t a big plain raisin guy but he’ll eat them as ants. #kids#kidfood#antsonalog#raisins#craisins
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Thrifted Costume: If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
This is our thrifted costume for Book Character Friday. My son chose to be Oliver with Mouse from “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” so made their outfits. He used his own navy shorts form school instead of jeans (he doesn’t like jeans and it was too hot for pants) and I planned to…
National Apple Day
National Apple Day! How do you apple? We like slices and I like applesauce. About once a year I’ll make an apple pie. This is a pretty standard snack for my son at school. An apple, this one is Honeycrisp though he also enjoys Galas, and a homemade muffin. This muffin happens to be pumpkin…
My Red Glasses and My Backup Glasses
New glasses today! I’ve been having trouble with oxidation and buildup on my old copper-colored glasses, so I talked through all of my concerns with Envision Eye Center and these new titanium glasses are supposed to take care of everything: oxidation, slipping down my nose, and the nosepieces causing indentations on my nose. I’m keeping…
Buy Nothing Ask Win: Pants Hangers for Skirts
My son’s school has a uniform resale store. I love it! The girls have the option to wear skirts and we were in desperate need for what are officially called pants hangers. Some of the skirts were double clipped two to a hanger, some were clotheslined or binder clipped to a regular hanger, it was…
The Craft That Keeps on Crafting: Cookie Cutters
I don’t even know how many families these have been through at this point, at least four. Cookies cutters, particularly for play dough, just keep on working and being great! So definitely bag them up and keep them moving along. We’re more of an activity set for play dough at this point so we rehomed…
Buy Nothing Win: Rehoming A Dinosaur Poster
My mother-in-law brought this down to us one day several years ago. This used to be in the game room at their house when my husband was growing up. He didn’t remember it, but I remembered it. We had it in my son’s play area for a while but he was never too attached. When…
Rehoming Unused School Workbooks
My son had workbooks leftover from last school year. We did some of them during the summer but not much. I posted these on my local Buy Nothing Project Facebook group and someone asked for them. There are a lot of homeschool families, or just parents that want to offer extra help and lessons. You…
Repurposing/Modifying Yard Sign Frames
Does anyone else thing of Mater when they use the word “Modify!” I’m cutting down yard signs from one style to another, so instead of a milk-carton sleeve they fit the corrugated plastic signs. Full video at https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HmDawsCzA/: the Facebook, Instagram or TikTok accounts. Waste not, want not! #yardsigns #schoolspirit #wastenotwantnot #repurpose #repair
Buy Nothing Win: Cinder Blocks Save Chickens
My son’s school has a chicken coop. We recently noticed questionable creature footprints around said coop so our Garden Coordinator asked for cinder blocks to make a safety perimeter for the ladies. The featured image is of one I had in my garage, I don’t remember why we had this…. I then posted in my…