My mother-in-law came up with a good set of secondhand sheets from somewhere, which were very welcome here.
She also brought a box of very nice natural-fiber fabrics and clothing for my eldest child to repurpose. Child is currently disinterested in any clothing styles less than 200 years old.
Child also went through dozens and dozens of balls of yarn and took samples for burn testing to determine fiber content. Acrylic and other synthetics melt and drip and curl up while burning, and some of them burn like a cartoon fuse.
It certainly made me reconsider allowing my family to wear synthetic fibers around open flames.
Cotton, linen, and wool burn much more slowly. Wool smells like burnt hair. Cotton sometimes has a small ember still burning at the end when it is blown out. Linen tends to leave a tiny gray string of ash still hanging
Other children have been busily and ingeniously constructing role-play items from cardboard.
We were given some sweet corn, and my corn huskers left the husks strewn all over outside. After a couple of days, I separated the leaves and braided them up into a wreath, letting the ends stick out. The braid was long enough to make two full turns around the wreath; I tied them together with string, and wove a twig through across the top for support.
I still have a little cornhusk wreath that I made last year. That is now on the back door.
