These bad boys had me at “Helvetica.” I love this tutorial from Plastolux on how to cut wine bottles into tumblers. I especially love that he researched a vintage craft tool and gave his take on how best to use it – I’ve often bought old kits at thrift stores and had trouble using them!
What I look for in a project, more than any other single quality, is doing a lot with a little. This “wave machine” demo from the UK’s National STEM Centre, targeted to science teachers for classroom use, is a great example. It’s just duct tape, wooden skewers, and gummy bears, but it creates some really striking, beautiful effects when set in motion. I want to make one in my living room just to play with. Their licensing terms forbid embedding of the video, but it’ll be worth your click to hop on over to STEM and watch it move.
Vi Hart melts my mind again with a totally fun video explanation of binary counting with dancing hands and groovy music. The amount of intelligence, creativity, sense of humor, and the sheer joy of exploring ideas is downright dizzying. She makes it all look effortless. Vi Hart for Secretary of Education! As we’ve pointed out […]
My first experience with fiber arts as a small child was finger knitting, and I was obsessed. But all I ever made was chain- miles and miles of chain! V and Co shows us how to elevate finger knitting into modern and sophisticated bracelets with a well presented tutorial. This is also the perfect craft […]
These DIY crepe paper carrots from Martha Stewart’s The Crafts Dept. blog are a nice way to have fun on Easter with a little less sugar running through your young guests’ veins! I like the idea of hiding trinkets inside the carrots rather than candy, and it seems like this could be easily adapted to […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics If you make a coffee table that express a mathematical idea and place it right in the middle of your living room, that certainly makes a statement to all who visit that math is central in your life. This looks like an ordinary square coffee table, but […]
Delphine from Non Dairy Diary shares a new printable for patterned fish. The post is originally for April Fools Day in France where Delphine explains that French children pin paper fish to people’s backsides on April 1st. I think these fish look so stylish all year round and would look beautiful strung up on a […]
