#PhiladelphiaPA -🌱 #EarthDay Party & #ToySwap! 🎉

A celebration of community & sustainability!

"Join us for Rutabaga’s Earth Day Toy Swap & Celebration—a fun-filled day of community, sustainability, and play.

📅 Date: April 25th, 1pm- 4pm
📍 Location: East Falls Presbyterian Church, 3800 Vaux St.
💚 Event Cost: FREE to ALL
🎟 Toy Swap Ticket: $25 per bag (Donate in advance & get $5 off!)

What to expect:
- Plant a seed with Dirt Baby Farm
- Earth Day Circle Time with Greene Towne Montessori
- Live music from the Blumbellies
- Rutabaga merch
- Tie Dying Station - Buy a shirt or Bring your own Item to Dye!
- (Mostly Native) #PlantSwap – Bring your seedlings or transplants to swap
-Rabbit #Recycling table. Bring your recyclables: #PlasticBags, #Electronics/Tech (handheld or small), #Cables, #cords, #wires, #Cork, #RubberBands, #BreadClips, and #TwistTies
- Games with East Falls Presbyterian Church
- Decorate Tree Cookies with The Miquon School


How the Toy Swap works

Donate (optional, but awesome).
- Drop off toys and goodies the week before the event at EFPC or Rutabaga Toy Library to get $5 off your bag.

Show up on Saturday.
- Check in at the door, grab your ticket, and get to “shopping” the swap.

Fill your bag.
- Browse toys, books, games, decor, and stocking stuffers for all ages and fill your bag to the brim.

Feel good.
- You’re keeping great stuff in circulation, skipping new manufacturing and extra waste, and supporting Rutabaga’s Scholarship Fund.


How to Donate

To help us set up thoughtfully, please drop off donations ahead of time (starting 4/20) rather than bringing them the day of the swap.

You can donate toys ahead of time in two ways:

Bin outside East Falls Presbyterian Church (by the entrance) @ 3800 Vaux Street, East Falls

At Rutabaga Toy Library during our open hours, listed here

We just ask that donations are:
✨ Clean
✨ In working condition
✨ With all important pieces

Basically, if it’s something you’d be happy to find at a swap, it’s perfect.


Volunteer & Get Early Access

We’d love some helping hands to make the swap magical.

- Friday: Sorting and setting up donated toys
- Saturday: Welcoming folks, keeping tables tidy, and supporting the flow of the event

As a thank you, volunteers get early access to shop the swap before doors open."

👉 Sign up to volunteer and FMI...
https://www.rutabagatoylibrary.com/earth-day

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #BuildingCommunity #Recycling

Earth Day 2026| Celebrate Earth Day - Join the Fun! — Rutabaga Toy Library

Join Rutabaga Toy Library's Earth Day event featuring a toy swap, block party, and community activities celebrating sustainability and fun for all ages.

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I’m late coming back with the mystery answer! It’s giant TACTICAL black rubber bands! I think about 65 in 4 sizes. I use them often to close up bags of food that need to be tightly closed for freshness and often things put in the freezer or refrigerator.

I’ve always just used miscellaneous rubber bands, often the ordinary beige ones. But as I added to my list of things to order I had the thought maybe there are heavy duty large rubber bands and there are! Check out the screenshot. If you look at the Amazon product page the comments cracked me up. Manly men happy to have “tactical” rubber bands. And use them in ways I am not acquainted with. Some are, um, yikes?#Mystery #WhatIsThis #GoodMorning #Today #INeedCoffee #RubberBands

11 September 2025 - Daily Drawing Day 254
#20252025Challenge
I sometimes like fiddling with elastic bands (rubber bands), which gave me the idea for another perspective experiment. Finger slingshot! Thanks to Momma Darlo for taking my photo to help with the pose. It's still weird drawing an actual hand instead of stubs.

#slingshot #hands #perspective #elasticbands #スリングショット #手 #観点 #輪ゴム #✋ #rubberbands #catapult #blur #fingers #hand #elasticband #finger #rubberband #カタパルト #ぶれ #ブレ #ぼやけた #指

Watch the time lapse video of this drawing on YouTube Shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/_1M_vkVHw2Q

See the latest at https://darlosworld.bsky.social

The 2025 20-25 Challenge.

This year let’s get better at something by finding a little practice time most days, in my case drawing. - Do your activity for at least 25 minutes, at least 25 days per month.
- Use the hashtag #20252025Challenge on social media etc to track your progress
- Also use the hashtag to cheer on others.

That’s about it!

Have fun with your activities, whatever they may be!

Drawing, programming, dancing, cooking, make up, reading, languages, gardening, mastering high fives, sewing, astrophysics, vcr clock setting ...

#challengeyourself #challenge #Drawing #drawings #illustration #newyearsresolution #25minutes #xppen #clipstudiopaint #dailydrawing #イラスト #クリップスタジオ #絵 #絵画 #絵描きさんと繋がりたい #drawingoftheday #一日一絵 #art #digitalart #oc #一次創作

All in the name of science!

#RubberBands #FordF150 #NewtonsLaw #Motion

Darn darn darn darn darn!!!

I forgot to buy a bag of rubber bands, today. They're actually great for holding certain kinds of components on circuit boards for soldering.

#DIY #RubberBands #Electronics #Audio

Whose job was it to decide that the strongest rubber bands known to humanity shall be used to bind bundles of asparagus?

#vegetables #groceries #customerService #packaging #rubber #rubberBands