The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Sarah James at Instructables writes: Try this homemade magic shell ice cream topping recipe, and be amazed at how simple and delicious (and customizable!) it is. Using only two ingredients, you can make a marvelous crispy chocolate coating for your ice cream. Stick with basic chocolate, or spice it up with any flavor combinations you […]
Meg of Elsie Marley shares a tutorial for making a tangram puzzle from balsa wood. I used to love playing with these when I was a kid, and I’m thinking I need to try my hand at it again and introduce my kids to the fun of a tangram puzzle.
Inspired by our coverage here on MAKE of flower-pot cooker/smokers, Nigel Vezeau (Ottawa, Canada) created this lovely “Little Blue Egg, a Big Green Egg knockoff. He used two big flower pots, an Ikea table, and a few other scrounged bits and pieces. About six months ago I was at a friend’s place jamming, hanging out, […]
“This photo was taken sometime in the ten or twelve seconds I managed to resist eating it,” writes Steve Hoefer, creator of the peanut butter and jelly ice cream cone. It consists of a cone-shaped piece of peanut butter toast filled with strawberry ice cream cone.
I love being part of a CSA; while the box is usually packed full of my favorite fruits and veggies, there’s always something in there that I have no idea what to do with. Fortunately, the farmers include a handy recipe sheet each week. Last week there was a lovely Napa cabbage, and an easy […]
Randy Sarafan writes: This Simple Bot was inspired by a work by artist James Rouvelle called Colony in which a bunch odd shaped ovals self-propel around their environment. It is my understanding that his bots were made by placing a vibrating motor freely inside of a Styrofoam ball that was then coated to give it […]
Use recycled half-gallon milk jugs as convenient containers for colored pencils, markers, and other craft supplies. This is a perfect trick for kids’ supplies.
