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Mad Dad

Joined: 12 May 2005
Posts: 407
Location: Nowhere near where I want to be

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 05 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: ahhhhh

purplepint2 wrote:

the question was asked.."what do they do with them"....well what she does is....sit twiddling with one, until she has about three inches of pattend bit.....then leaves it for me to trip on, kneel on, sit on, find, move, hide....etc.....then she makes another......the same thing happeneds...then makes another...etc...etc.....

Same problem here only I have to start them off for my little one...

You can actually buy books on them now showing you lots of different designs and things to make...

Quelly

Joined: 21 Jun 2005
Posts: 29

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 05 11:57 pm Post subject:

well actually, I have a vey old fashioned high chair...wooden..and i plaited some scoobies and made bars so my baby couldn't fall out! The picture shows the top rung..then another rung went from that rung downwards like a t-bar..so my daughter couldn't fall off the chair. They are great. She chews on them with the glee of a 10 month old. They stretch slightly as I put her in the chair. and they are easy to clean. I know they aren't very ecologically sound..but we didn't buy a new high chair ..all plastic...so scoobies made our wooden highchair workable!

amiphist

Joined: 15 May 2005
Posts: 75

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 05 5:00 pm Post subject:
you can use them as bracelets, key chains, or I'm currently using them as zips for where the end has broken off. And people make them because it's caliming, every one else is doing it, and they've got nothing better to do

jema
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 05 5:09 pm Post subject:

amiphist wrote:

you can use them as bracelets, key chains, or I'm currently using them as zips for where the end has broken off. And people make them because it's caliming, every one else is doing it, and they've got nothing better to do

weeding, tidying room... I have volenteered a list more more productive activities

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 05 5:10 pm Post subject:

amiphist wrote:

they've got nothing better to do

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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45434
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 05 5:17 pm Post subject:
You could do a word search based on the 3 sisters story

purplepint2

Joined: 25 Jul 2005
Posts: 5
Location: Dorset

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 05 7:28 pm Post subject:
Kittytips....that looks fantastic.

culpepper

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 638
Location: Kent

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 5:21 pm Post subject:
My OH had a keyring made of leather laces that was just the same principle as these.He made it at Scouts years ago. I suppose you could make dog leads too.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 05 3:29 pm Post subject:
i have sucumbed and bought a pack to try out, don't they pong funny? Will let you know how I get on!

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 05 3:43 pm Post subject:

They drive me crazy but they keep my daughter quiet and dexterous. She has made me a necklace out of several strung together, as well as the seemingly obligatory key ring adornments.

Whilst on holiday we found long strands of spaghetti-like seaweed on the beach and she even managed to plait some of that, so maybe it is teaching her some kind of useful cordage/rope-making skills.

Do you think the fabulous Ray Mears knows how to do scoubies with clematis bark, or deer sinews?

Once they are finished with I unravel them surreptitiously and use them whenever I need to tie something up. Snigger, snigger; fnarr fnarr.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 05 9:22 am Post subject:
I can thing of a million worse things that small girls (or in fact fiddlesticks!) coule be doing!

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 05 9:28 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

I can thing of a million worse things that small girls (or in fact fiddlesticks!) coule be doing!

ooh sounds naughty do tell!! What should I be doing?

@Calli

Joined: 03 Jul 2005
Posts: 1682
Location: Galway

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 05 9:34 am Post subject:

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:

i have sucumbed and bought a pack to try out, don't they pong funny?

Can't you just smell the chemicals??? I'd feel better if they were made from reycled somethings but have a horrible feeling from looking at the country of origin on daughters packet

Oh but the glittery ones make nice plant ties!!!! and scare the birds too ( or is that the pong??)

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 05 10:02 am Post subject:

ExilesinGalway wrote:

Oh but the glittery ones make nice plant ties!!!! and scare the birds too ( or is that the pong??)

I have the glittery ones, and have been harbouring thoughts of how I can best use them on the plot. Some elaborate bird scarer or a scarecrows hair!

have made my 1st key chain, its not that straight but looks ok. I'm thinking of trying them in my peg loom..

scoubiqueen!
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 05 7:21 pm Post subject: scoubidous
[url]https://www.scoubiguide.co.uk is fantastic and shows you how to do loads of scoubidou stitches and knots![/code][/url]

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