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Keep it on the tick for at least 20 seconds. The tick will cease biting, back out, and will remain stuck to the cotton ball when it's pulled away. If the tick has been embedded for awhile, keep it in a jar so you can test it for Lyme disease.[source: Budget101]Note that there is debate on whether this actually works. Here's a testimonial that says it does, but there's no scientific evidence to back it up, so try at your own risk and keep a pair of tweezers in your first aid kit.

These beautiful wooden pots are perfect for your bathroom or kitchen. Ideal for storing your cotton balls and cotton swabs or other small items. Nice to combine the sizes together.

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Make a cotton ball launcher with rubber bands and paper towel tubes.

Make a cotton ball launcher with rubber bands and paper towel tubes.

Jacqueline: THis is wyatt my son and his body is painted he has cotton balls as eyebrows a rubber nose tied around his head red tights on a beard and a...

We have been doing lots of indoor growing recently and planted some beans at the same time that we grew our cress letters last month. This is a really easy, visual way to teach children about root systems and is something I used to do with my school children each Spring time. Plus it’s very exciting to...Read More »

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Make a cotton ball launcher with rubber bands and paper towel tubes.

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The Dodo serves up emotionally and visually compelling, highly sharable animal-related stories and videos to help make caring about animals a viral cause.

Make a cotton ball launcher with rubber bands and paper towel tubes.

the complex kinetic headphone sculpture articulates tension between the chaotic forces of life through an effortless reverberation of sound repetition.

There’s a gif that’s been circulating the internet for a while now that’s always struck me as the perfect encapsulation of the absurdist yet hyper-mundane web humor born of Tumblr in the mid-2000s, and fuelled by the viral nature of social networks ever since. The image is of a pile of cotton balls

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