This is one of our Thanksgiving traditions – we have card stock and colored pencils out for people to make hand turkeys. Yep, just like you remember from grade school, you trace around your hand and fill in the features. Kids and adults both really enjoy themselves, and it’s fun to see people get creative […]
Cute little set of “ghetto speakers” make from four disposable waters cups and toothpicks. Something for the kids to do on a rainy day, not as a replacement for your Bose (or your Altec Lansing). CupSpeakers [via Dinosaurs and Robots]
MAKE is devoted to a growing community of resourceful people who believe that if you can imagine it, you can make it… With all the talk of tough economic times ahead, we’re doing a series of interviews with makers & friends around the world who either make a living from “making” or just earn extra […]
Make a summertime sprinkler system for the kids out of PVC
Lots of pics of the Seattle Power Tool Drag Race in this Flickr Pool. Seattle Power Tool Race and Derby 2008
A classic project for those rainy sundays – the two most common approaches to making invisible ink in the kitchen: Write a message with lemon juice or, then heat with a lamp/oven/iron to decode (but not burn!) as seen above. or Write your message with baking soda + water mixture, allow to dry, and decode […]
Put a Gummi Bear into molten potassium chlorate and the results are impressively violent (e.g. candy bear screaming is involved). And you thought microwaving Peeps was fun. Gummy Bear in molten potassium chlorate – [via] Link
