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toys for rats- creative xmas presents? I have two lovely girl rats that live in a nice terrarium (ironically previously occupied by a snake) and I am stumped for christmas presents for them. I know, it is silly, it is not like they KNOW they should get a present, but if the dog and the cats get presents, the ratties should too. they have a "log cabin", a "sewer pipe" and a box with holes cut in it for cage fun. I tried wooden chew toys last year and they were not exactly fans. they have a monster ferret ball, but still not fans. they have a nice carrier for outings... if anyone has some cool creative ideas, please let me know!

Creative toys? My husband and I are trying to switch out the toys in our house with more toys that spark creativity and imagination. We're tired of all of the high tech, battery operated toys and feel like we need to get "back to the basics", so to speak. We're looking for things like wooden blocks and simple cars. Does anyone have any suggestions or any web-sites? I've searched and I'm having a tough time. Thank you!

I need to think of a cheap product i can sell within my school for a wood shop product? you can sell almost anything you want, although no weapons, and i need to find something that my whole class can make that's kind of simple, but creative and that 6-8th graders ill buy. in the past people have sold fish in cool fish tanks, gumball machines, picture frames, wooden toys, hall passes, tshirts and things like that. any ideas?

Looking for creative advice (nursery decor)? I just bought wooden toy train letters to spell my babies name in the nursery. I am looking for painting suggestions. Should I paint the letters solid or attempt patterns? Should the wheels be black? Any suggestions welcome. I found a pic of the internet of what the letters look like: http://www.toyday.co.uk/shop/images/uploads/lettrain3.jpg http://www.sz-wholesale.com/uploadFiles/upimg6%5CWooden-letter-train_104856.jpg

I need ideas to decorate my baby's room.? I'd like to use toys (wooden blocks, rubber duckies, other classic toys) to decorate the baby's room in a creative way. We don't want to use the prepackaged rooms from the big stores. Any ideas?

What toys did your children actually play with the most? I'm about to spend quite a bit of money on toys when our house closes on the 30th. I always go for wooden, fabric, very green companies and products, i.e. Rosie Hippos, Gummylump, Polka Dots,... I'm wondering what toys are real hits, getting tons of play. I don't believe in the gender toy debate, so I hope I don't generate that here. Females by nature are more nurturing, and relationships are, in my opinion, more important than construction or Science, so I'll state that right up front. It's hinged on worldview. All depends on what you consider to be a reason for existence and what you define as progress. My four sons play with building sets, art and creative supplies, figures, kitchen play (Chef), etc., so I consider all toys to be unisex. My son loves his baby doll, and tells narrow-minded, busy-body, strangers that he's learning to be a daddy. :o) So. Which toys are the winners in your house? Which ones lasted forever with the kids' interest? I mean, which were most used? By either sex? We do lean heavily towards dragons, gnomes, wizards, fairies, medieval, Egypt, and so on. Lots of fantasy and history. And we like lots of open-ended creative play. Thank you so much for your reply. Clare Very good answers. After asking a few parents locally, and thinking through what our lifestyle is like, we've decided to buy something to encourage outdoor play. Because we're buying land, we're going to build a structure, (balance beam, fireman pole, climbing wall, ball goal, tunnel slide, etc.), and also buy some farm-type pets. The older boys (our sons range in age from 1-15) have been in 4-H for 6 years, so we'll try rabbits or goats; something that they can show, sell... Thank you

Honest feedback please for my creative writing!!? Describe the room (furniture) you're in::: Simple yet evocative. I sit on my soft and supple futon, transfixed by the skillful creation I call my conservatory. There is much I can say about this small albeit cosy room therefore I shall share my opinions with you. The marble tiles lining the surface are adorned with chequered patterns which are neither ornate nor mundane. Amid the tiles resides an elliptical rug made out of fresh wool. On top of the several wooden shelves spread across the room lie fresh flowers; ranging from bluebell's to zinnia's. These beautiful flowers add bliss and fidelity to the conservatory. The huge glass windows allow the sunlight to seep through. As soon as this action takes place all my problems and dilemmas suddenly vanish into the thin air. On the other hand, when the blazing heat penetrates through my skin and into my blood, I become a living fire.The intense rays surge through my blood, causing it to gush around my body at breakneck speed! Nonetheless, situated in the far corner, dwells a large, plastic trestle table, laden with toys and broad,bulky books. Now, this may sound obscene however in my perspective the table is the highlight of the conservatory, this is because it exudes such a presence, it renders the average person idyllic. It represents togetherness, juvenility and ecstasy. In spite of its inadequacy in terms of space, my conservatory always bestows me with a feeling of delight; contentment and an all predominating feeling of tranquility... Please don't be too mean as this is my first GCSE English attempt!!

what crafts sell well? I am a 23 year old mum who is very creative and I love making all sorts of crafts, from bath products like bath bombs, bath salts, bubbles etc to things like scrapbooking, small wooden crafts, toys etc. What I'd love to do is start selling my crafts as whenever anybody see's them they seem to really like them and usually request something. So i am asking this, what do you think would be a good selling craft product that will attract a lot of customers and wont go out of fashion? THANKS!

Advice for a bored hamster?? i have a sweet hamster who lives in a glass aquarium. he has a wheel, fluff to make a bed, a small flower pot to hide in, and a wooden climbing ladder. however, i think hes bored in there....i take him out but he doesnt like to run in the ball. are there some creative and fun hamster toys i could make?? im not interested in the cheap, plastic toys that he can chew.

Your opinion on short poem? Hi, I'm just looking for some input on this short narrative poem i wrote for a creative writing class. I'm being asked to present it and well honestly i don't feel very secure with it. I'm not very big on writing poetry. In fact this is probably the first poem i've ever written. Ever. Literally. So if anything sounds awkward or cliche, just tell me. It will help a lot. Thanks! Toy The wooden floor creaks with the steps, while its coat of gloss grins, submitting a sliver of the home for me to dress . Twenty one moments summed to this. Its above me. A green kid looked for this once. It’s white walls surround me. This was mine, they both said. It’s floor is beneath me. The shimmer from the floor is slipping, as sunlight flickers and night begins. An adult had come too late to this place.

Opinion on short poem? Hi, I'm just looking for some input on this short narrative poem i wrote for a creative writing class. I'm being asked to present it and well honestly i don't feel very secure with it. I'm not very big on writing poetry. In fact this is probably the first poem i've ever written. Ever. Literally. So if anything sounds awkward or cliche, just tell me. It will help a lot. Thanks! Toy The brown wooden floor creaks with the steps, while its coat of gloss grins, submitting a sliver of the home for me to dress . Twenty one moments summed to this. Its above me. A green kid looked for this once. It’s white walls surround me. This was mine, they both said. It’s floor is beneath me. The shimmer from the floor is slipping, as sunlight flickers and night begins. An adult had come too late to this place. The poem is about someone who as a child wanted a room of his own. Now the child has grown up and at the age (21) where he's going to be moving out. At the same time, his parents can finally give him the room he always wanted. But now it's not something he wants. This is great feed back. Didn't know it was fine. =p

An opinion on this short poem? Hi, I'm just looking for some input on this short narrative poem i wrote for a creative writing class. I'm being asked to present it and well honestly i don't feel very secure with it. I'm not very big on writing poetry. In fact this is probably the first poem i've ever written. Ever. Literally. So if anything sounds awkward or cliche, just tell me. It will help a lot. Thanks! Toy The brown wooden floor creaks with the steps, while its coat of gloss grins, submitting a sliver of the home for me to dress . Twenty one moments summed to this. Its above me. A green kid looked for this once. It’s white walls surround me. This was mine, they both said. It’s floor is beneath me. The shimmer from the floor is slipping, as sunlight flickers and night begins. I had come too late to this place.

What should I get my 16 month old for Christmas? We are on a tight budget and he is getting heaps of presents for Christmas from my family. He's the only baby on my side so he's kind of the star. So far he's getting a ride on train that has heaps of buttons, a toy where you put balls down a slide, wooden blocks, a tricycle, books, and a kitchen set (yes, a kitchen set-he's in love with his friend's one.) He already has the leap frog pad and some Parents brand toys that he loves (the small activity block and the gumball machine.) Does anyone have creative ideas for me? Thanks! Thanks Lindsey, I should clarify though-those are things my family is getting him-not my husband and I.

How is my college admissions essay? Here is my essay: Tell me if its Ivy League quality and how well its written. Thank you in advance for your help Growing up in Jamaica, toys were a rare commodity. Money was scarce in my family, so putting food on the table dominated our financial concerns, not buying toys for the kids. If I were lucky, I’d find a yo-yo with a dirty, worn string or a pocket car always with on of its tires broken. My friends, many of whom shared my predicament, and I had to invent creative ways to fulfill our innate childish desires—to have unlimited amounts of fun. And so my friends and I found an endless amount of things to enjoy ourselves, such as poorly sculpting old pieces of wood to make cricket backs; using the various Apple, Mango and Geniep—a fruit the size of a grape with a green outer casing and orange insides—trees in my neighborhood as both our afternoon nourishment and as our jungle gyms; and riding on old, wooden carts down steep perilous streets. Our best inventions, however, were our box-trucks. A box-truck is a simple, yet eclectic conglomeration of parts: four fruit juice boxes, at least eight bottle caps, four stems from coconut tree leaves, and about 8 inches of thread. To obtain the bottle caps and fruit juice boxes, my friends and I would travel down to the gully down the street, a place inundated with trash. We’d get the thread from our respective homes and the stems from a coconut tree. After we had collected all our supplies, we’d sit together, sharing nail to pierce holes into the bottle caps that would become the tires and scissors to cut the boxes into certain shapes. The finished product resembled an 18-wheeler; unlike it though, our box-trucks were more vibrant and much feebler. A tire fell off because off if too big of a hole was pierced in it; the sticks that held the tires on the truck broke at the slightest turbulence; and the whole vehicle crumbled if stepped on. In our boyish jubilance, we’d often destroy these trucks in days. Childhood poverty and lack of opportunity taught me to appreciate the resources available to me today; my box-truck building experiences taught me how to use them. When I entered the 6th grade, I was reading at a 4th grade level, I was placed in the lowest possible classes in my middle school because of it. Determined to change that, I worked diligently to become a better reader, keeping word journals to improve my vocabulary and studying grammar books. By the 10th grade, I was reading books by Cornel West and Stephen King. All this wouldn’t have been possible if I weren’t surrounded by the resources, which I fully utilized. I often maxed out my school and public library cards and asked my teachers whenever I couldn’t understand something. Soon I will be the first in my immediate family graduate high school and go to college. At college, I hope to get a higher education as well as to dance, to learn how to play an instrument, to travel the world and to acquire the skills necessary to give poor kids like myself in Jamaica and throughout the world opportunities to better themselves. I know that I accomplish these goals at the University I attend because I plan to exhaust the resources that it will provide me to do so.