My son loves drums.
This is great; encouraging musicality, general adorableness, et cetera et cetera. It’ll probably be less great when he’s sixteen, but for the time being it’s extremely cute.
What is not great is the fact that drums – and drum-related things like xylophones – come with components called “drumsticks”, which we might as well just toss out the car window on the way home from the toy store, that’s how easy they are to lose. Don’t even get me started on my dogs and these things. You please try explaining to Lucy and Virgil that my son’s toys are not made of beef jerky and ambrosia; I don’t want to deal with it.
Anyway, I came up with a solution, so I thought I’d share.
Here’s the thing: if you just tie the sticks to the toy the string slips off. How to solve this problem: use a serrated knife (or a chisel, if you’re the type of person who owns a chisel) to whittle a little notch into the side of the drumstick.
When you tie the twine around it (thinner string would work even better, but this is what we had) it catches on the notch, and presto:
Yay.
