Kids' Tips
Easy short cuts and quick tips are especially helpful when you have children. Here are a few that might apply to your household needs.
Rainy Day Smarts
Place a shoe rack by the back door. When the kids come in with wet feet they can remove their shoes and place them on the rack to dry. This is a great way to dry mittens as well.
Shower Gift
For an inexpensive baby shower or wedding gift, buy a picture frame with mats cut for several photos in one frame. Put stickers, pressed flowers, vital statistics, dates, etc. in each cutout area.
Round Up The Zoo
Keep bulky stuffed toys off the floor and create an instant menagerie in your children's room. Attach a fish net to the ceiling so it is tacked loosely all around and fill with the toys.
Keep Baby Safe
If you have a baby coming to visit or you're taking baby to a friend's house here's an instant safeguard for keeping little fingers out of cabinets. Tie colorful bandanas through the handles and tie the ends in a fat knot. This will temporarily do the trick.
Quick and Easy Headboard
Make an inexpensive headboard for a teenager's bed with a section of picket fence. Paint and secure to the wall behind the bed.
Just For Baby
Make a bassinet skirt from two pairs of tier curtains. Sew them together at the side seams and run a piece of elastic through the heading. Then fit the skirt around the bassinet and stitch to the lining.
Copyright Leslie Linsley, author
Reprinted with permission, HouseNet, Inc.