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Children’s Play X-Rays

by Vanessa Brady on 22 May 2013 in Kids, Original Prints with 9 Comments

Explore bones and bodies with your kids! - Free printable x-rays from Tried & TrueMy 4 year old son has been fascinated with the inner workings of our bodies lately so I went looking for x-rays that we could use with our light table to fully explain skeletons to him. Unfortunately, all the pins I found either went to forbidden pages or items for sale. Oh well, guess I’ll just whip some up…how hard could it be?!Kids Play X-Rays : Play - A Tried & True Free Printable

It was actually more involved than I thought it would be! Turns out, googling “Head X-Ray” brings up a lot of really disturbing images. And while a nail in the middle of someone’s head is scientifically amazing, not really the lesson I was going for with my little one!

Free printable x-rays for light tables and more from Tried & True!After hours of looking for just normal x-ray images (as much as I can tell!), I resized and adjusted the contrast to make them as clear as possible and then had my husband draw the corresponding line drawings. Awfully handy having an amazing artist in the family! :D

I printed the x-rays on vellum paper with the drawn images printed on just standard printer paper.  You can either tape the x-rays and drawings together to create a flip book or just leave them separate and have your kids be able to match the drawing to the x-ray. These work great with light tables but you can also just hold them up a window to see the “x-ray” action!

Kids Play X-Rays Download - A Tried & True Free Printable

I thought I would put these up on T&T just in case there are any other parents out there who don’t want to go through page after page of grizzly x-rays. Your stomach can thank me later!

You can download the images above right now:

Hand/Foot X-Ray & Line Drawing
Chest X-Ray & Line Drawing

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Forward Facing Bookshelves

by Vanessa Brady on 6 January 2012 in Home, Kids, Tutorial with 22 Comments

Forward Facing BookshelvesI know there are a million and one tutorials for Forward Facing Bookshelves but I’ve been sitting on this tutorial for a year now and it seems like such a waste not to add it to the blog so here goes! Also, I should probably add the disclaimer that while the idea to put bookshelves in the wasted space behind the door was mine, my husband actually was the one who designed and fabricated them. A word of caution, though. These are more than sturdy enough for even large books but like most floating shelves, will pull right out if your monkey child decides to climb them. Just letting you know.

One more thing, in an effort to seem more realistic, I added a huge, heaping pile of dust and dirt in the corner just before I took the picture above. What? Who, me? I would never have dirty baseboards! ;)

Forward Facing Bookshelves

Materials:
- aluminum track
- baseboard (one with grooves so that the books will catch)
- screws
- saw
- drill
- tacks
- hammer

Instructions:

1. Cut aluminum track and baseboard to desired length.

2. Locate studs or insert wall anchors.

3. Mark aluminum track for screws or wall anchors and pre-drill holes.

4. Mount track to wall.

5. Align moulding and mark screw head locations for notches.

6. Cut notches in moulding.

7. Insert notched baseboard moulding into aluminum track.

8. Drill pilot holes for tacks.

9. Insert tacks to secure moulding.

10. Repeat all processes until desired number of shelves is achieved, fill with wonderful books that your child can reach all by himself!


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