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.
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).
Kip @ MAKE shows us how to construct a regulation size set of materials for playing the popular lawn game Cornhole in his Weekend Project video. His niece helped him sew the bags full of corn for tossing down the playing field.
Kate on mini-eco has a nice little list of ingredients that will work as natural dye for homemade playdough. Turmeric, oak tree bark, raspberries… They create such pretty colors! She shares her playdough recipe too.
In honor of Bastille Day today, we’re showcasing these adorable crochet macarons by Alicia Kachmar. Whip up a batch with her free pattern that is surely calorie free. Viva la macarons!
FurGots on Craftster made a plush Hobbes, from the comic Calvin & Hobbes. In only 3 hours! I like his serious face. She says: After a conversation with my friend, who dressed up as “Calvin” for Halloween, I got around to thinking…. it would be awfully neat to make a Hobbes stuffed animal. With all […]
Anna of Mochimochi Land is sharing a free pattern for these cute knit baby gators from her new book, Knitting Mochimochi. I love the idea of whipping up a whole batch of them to make some kind of baby gator attack scene …
