Spring Swing

Each year, in an effort to keep up with kinetic children, we add a new swing to our outside collection.  This year, it's a special one.  Over spring break, Clara pulled out her "Daring Book for Girls," and it happened to open up to "How to Make a Swing."  

We bought the wood, the rope, and the eye hooks and then started drilling.  Although Clara's book was our inspiration, we used this link as our guide.  We tied bowline knots on the seat and from a beam, as we are all out of tree limb swing space.   Clara is proud that the end result is a big hit.  As with the others, the new swing is the favorite.