Prairie Hand Wash Station
I’m a fan of the earth on the little ones’ hands— soil, sand, bark, and that particularly enchanting smell of gardenia that lingers on the skin after the flowers are clipped from grandma’s garden pathway.
But I could do without some of the other things that get on the kiddos’ hands while we’re out— like, say, Strep bacteria, you know? (And I’m an avid no-shoes-in-the-house kinda person after years of living in major cities like New York, Los Angeles and D.C.)
As such, I added a simple hand wash station* to the front stoop.
I paired it with a repurposed and refillable bottle of soap with a spout adapter and an old cloth napkin, and voila!
The soil can stay, but the Strep has gotta go.
