How-To: Dye Your Own Play Silks
Looking for a kid-friendly weekend project? Dye your own play silks with common household ingredients!
Year: 2013
How-To: Chiffon Cake with Fruit Topping Tissue Box Cozy
Quirky crochet designer Twinkie Chan created a sweet new tutorial for this amazing chiffon cake with fruit topping tissue box cozy.
Pitches with Prototypes: Moti
MAKE’s 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop is only a few days away and I’m really looking forward to the event, especially the “pitches with prototypes” contest. One of the entrants is Nicholas Stedman of Moti. He is trying to make robotics easy for “Designers, Developers & Devious Kids” with his Internet in a motor concept.
How-To: The Panjolele Cake Pan Ukulele
What can you make with two cake pans, 20 toothpicks, some lumber, and a handful of screws? A Panjolele! Whitehall, Michigan-based maker Chester Winowiecki shared his full how-to on the pages of MAKE Volume 33. We posted it on our site so you can start gathering materials and building right away.
The Moving Toys Workshop
Have fun building moving toys out of simple and recycled materials with these easy-to-follow instructions. The Moving Toys Workshop will also be at Maker Faire Bay Area this year, so come by and craft your own moving toy!
Why Educators Love Maker Faire 2013
Teachers love Maker Faire because they see how much it means to engage their students as makers. For Teacher Appreciation Week, we want to salute educators who bring the Maker movement to kids in schools and in after-school programs. We believe making has the power to transform education and develop the potential of every child to create and innovate. Getting making into schools can be difficult so we’re particularly happy to applaud the efforts of pioneering educators who are leading the way. It’s important that these pioneers realize that they’re not alone.
Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
Recently, my wife, Carla Sinclair (founding editor-in-chief of CRAFT magazine) copyedited a book called Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. As she was editing it, she kept teling me, “this book is great.” So I started reading it. She’s right. Written by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary S. Stager, Invent to Learn (which was published this week) describes the benefits and opportunities of maker-based learning. Almost every page of the book has an insightful gem.