Empty tread spools
#4
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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When we were children, my father helped us make “ tractors” with wooden spools. We put an elastic band through the hole and secured the ends with a little stick. The elastic would unwind causing the spool to travel like a little vehicle. A big wooden spool could be used to do the knitted cord by looping yarn over the nails at the top of the spool. The plastic spools of today I just put in my garbage.
#5
I have a pretty large old cardboard pattern box of them. When my niece was little, she used to love to play blocks with them. Honestly it was one of her favorite things to play with while visiting. I have made little pull toys with the spools as the wheels and used them as a handle when one came up missing from a drawer in the garage. I keep them in the garage for what I don't know. LOL!