Archive for October 13th, 2009

measuring tapes

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

One of our prop boxes is for workers and in it we have, amongst other things, fluoro vests, hard hats, stop and go signs, tool boxes and tool belts which enable all the important gear such as …

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… hammers, saws, screw drivers, mobile phones and measuring tapes to be carried around to the work sites.

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We find a lot of incidental measuring goes on with these retractable metal tape measures.

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The fences ….

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…the grassed area…

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…the slide, down and across…

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and the equipment.

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Sometimes objects which are hard to measure with a straight ruler are more easily measured with the metal tape measures.

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Our children are not fussed about the actual measurements and are enjoying the measuring process, but the older children could, of course, extend this by writing down estimates first, comparisons, plans of the yard or room etc…