Sarah James at Instructables made a tutorial for making your own sidewalk chalk at home. This is an inexpensive and easy project to do with your kids this summer! Plaster of Paris and powdered tempera paint are the magic ingredients.
Amber Dusick shows you how she makes her beeswax wood polish that she uses as a toy sealer on the wooden toys she makes (woodmouse on Etsy).
Flickr user evilKitchen brings us this nicely-photographed tutorial on building a switchable, spinnable multicolor LED bundle for making “light orb” style light graffiti. It’s based on an earlier, private tutorial by user Digicord.
The Billy Bookcase, which celebrated its 30th birthday last fall, is one of IKEA’s most popular products. Andrew Saffer of Melbourne, Australia shares an IKEA hack of the Billy Bookcase that he used to create a dollhouse. I imagine you could use the top half for a dollhouse and maintain use of the bottom half […]
Instructables user zzapatista writes: This is a cheap and easy way to produce lots of tasty fresh mushrooms for the kitchen, while at the same time reducing your own waste and even handling some extra. The idea is that you will use an old coffee cup as a container to grow oyster mushroom mycelium, which […]
This giant plushie shark is also a sleeping bag! Sleep soundly cradled in its massive jaws. Creator Kendra Phillips calls it the ChumBuddy. [via inspire me now] More: Tauntaun Sleeping Bag Sleeping Bag Suit
From Trashbear Labs. Arduino-controlled, incorporating a whopping eighty-one tubes. More details available in a follow-up post here. [via Hack a Day]
