Wooden Play Structures
Wooden Play Structures
The holiday season is a time of wonder, fun and pure joy for kids of all ages. Adults love the holidays, too. One of the best parts of Christmas is watching a toddler marvel at the lights and decorations and tear into brightly wrapped gifts. The toddler phase might be the most enchanting when it comes to Christmas. The best toys for toddlers this Christmas 2009 include toys that provide fun while teaching a skill, and toys that are cuddly and lovable. Toys that let your little one be creative and get her moving are great choices.
Haba Fantasy Blocks and Building Blocks are toddler toys that you’ll love almost as much as your toddler. These great beechwood blocks are perfect for young hands to build the most amazing structures with. Colorful, and in a variety of shapes, sizes and finishes, Haba blocks will let your child use his imagination to develop motor skills while having fun seeing what wonders he can build.
The Alex Toys Stringing Sets – Stringing Farm, String and Beep, and Wash and String wooden stringing sets are nifty gifts for toddlers. Even older kids get a kick out of playing with these! Large chunky beads in cool shapes can be strung together with a wooden needle and cotton laces. This is a nice interactive toy that helps develop hand/eye coordination and motor skills.
Young toddlers up to three years will go crazy for the LeapFrog Learn and Groove Musical Table. This toy involves your little one with 15 fun activities and over 40 songs. She’ll learn about music and how she can make things happen with the push, spin, roll or slide. Learning about numbers, counting and shapes has never been so fun or melodic!
The best toys for toddlers don’t have to be complex, either. What little kid doesn’t love to play with trucks in the sandbox, or the living room? Pick things up, haul them away and dump them out – then start over again! The Sprig Toys Eco-Truck Dump Truck is especially cool because it’s built for durability from eco-friendly materials. It’s big enough to haul heavy loads of whatever your youngster’s imagination deems haul-able.
Is your favorite little girl or boy into music? For young musicians, here is the perfect toddler toy for Christmas 2009 – the Hohner Toddler 5 Piece Music Band. This is a complete band in a box! The wave drum, hand bells, glockenspiel, shaker maraca and rattle roller are perfect for little hands to hold, and a great way to introduce the fun of music making to your toddler.
Christmas 2009 promises to be the most fun ever for your toddler. She’ll make music, learn about building things, and haul all of her new toys around in an eco-friendly dump truck, too. So much fun!
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anchor – bolt has come out of concrete. How to fix it?
Have fixed a Basket Ball hoop ( not using the wooden board) directly to a concrete wall, using anchor bolts ( roughly 2-3 inches deep and < 1/2 inch dia).
However one of the anchor bolt has come out of place, after playing for few days. I guess either the hole was big or the anchor was not able to grip properly and the hole lining was giving away. not sure.
Now my requirement is to fix the loosened anchor. Need your advice.
(or better advice on fixing basketball hoops 
)
Putting it in another place is not an option, for I need to drill 4 more new holes, which I dont want to do ( in current location, my other 3 bolts are in place and are secured good). I can continue with the as is existing structure, but guessing that the vibrations, would slowly damage the other 3 anchors as well, hence want to fix is asap.
Purchase a caulking tube that comes with a special mixing nozzle – it’s epoxy anchoring adhesive. You just need this epoxy and a regular caulking gun.
Remove the goal so you can get this epoxy back in the hole around your 1 anchor bolt that did not hold well. Make sure the hole is cleaned out good prior to squirting epoxy in the hole and around the bolt. This epoxy sets pretty quick but you will need to hold it in place so it does not run out of the hole. Just take a pc. of cardboard and make hole in center so it fits around the bolt. Squirt epoxy in then push carboard over bolt so its against wall, and hold it on for 5 minutes.
Pull off cardboard, wait 24 hrs. – Remount goal and install nuts washers on all bolts – tighten down snug – wait 1 more day – then really crank the bolts tight.
Do not get the epoxy on your hands or anything else you don’t want permanently globbed up with it.
