Hanging Dish Towel Hack
Great handmade gift idea for mom! No more picking up fallen dish towels!
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Springtime Makes: DIY Upcycled Bike Basket
Looking for a thrift store-friendly DIY? Create your own custom upcycled bike basket with just a few easy-to-find items from your own home or your favorite flea market. If you’ve got a few extra minutes (plus glue drying time) to spare this weekend, you can hit the farmer’s market in style with a cute and […]
Hydrojet-Powered Personal Pool Pontoon from PVC
Build a DIY hydrojet-powered watercraft for kids that’s perfect for the backyard pool. Kids love to drive the land roving mini cars and trucks you can get at the big box toy stores, now they can head to the water and pilot their own home built pontoon boat. This boat is at a scale and […]
Cat Craft: Clay Kitty Coasters
Cats and crafts? It’s purrrrfect match! Add a set of super-cute DIY clay kitty coasters to your handmade home decor. Transform polymer clay into fabulous feline faces that are perfect for holding your favorite drinks! Want to learn how? Check out this easy-to-follow clay kitty coasters tutorial that Laura shared on A Beautiful Mess. If […]
How Making Board Games Can Lead to Real Classroom Innovation
If creativity is intelligence having fun, then creating a board game is intelligence at play. One of my favorite units for the 7th grade class I teach is the Board Game Design unit. When my assistant principal walked into my class, though, she was skeptical. The kids had played board games in order to dissect […]
This R/C Plane Built from a Weed Whacker Actually Flies
In the dark of night, one of the builders at UsaRCJets took the engine from a dead weed eater, parts from an old R/C banana boat plane, a 1′×2′ board and cobbled them together into this monstrous wacky hack. With no plans and only some beers to guide him, Billy D set to work making […]
Flashback: Reverse Canvas Wall Pockets
By Cathe Holden Upcycle new or used stretched canvases into wall pockets to organize mail, papers, stationery, notes, coupons and reminders, or just create funky wall art with flea market finds!
