How-To: Make a fake beard
This tutorial from last year on CRAFT is just as fresh as ever. If you can’t grow one to match your local urban lumberjacks, make a fake beard (by Erin Dollar).
Halloween
Forget the T-shirt cannon, how about a T-shirt tank!?
Andrew, a MAKE subscriber from Glen Ellyn, IL, sent us a link to this in-store T-shirt tank that Kevin from Workshop 88 (a makerspace in the Western Chicago Suburbs) built. It’s a working tank, complete with headlights and a swiveling turret, made out of things like paint buckets and cedar edging. The T-shirt cannon was […]
Programmable Halloween costume
Minneapolitan Michael Krumpus programmed his son’s halloween costume to flash LEDs in random patterns. Like many parents, we make hand-made costumes for our kids instead of buying cheaply-made (and expensive) costumes based on licensed characters. This year, my youngest son wanted to be a robot. My wife did a great job making the costume, but […]
How-To: Quick And Easy Star Wars Masks on Headbands
Filth Wizardry once again shows her brilliance with this great use of headbands as a way to wear printable masks. She used the awesome old school masks that are available for download on the Star Wars web site, some sticky back shelf liner paper and headbands to create these easy-to-wear and durable masks for her […]
Halloween is a time to MAKE
This is what Halloween is about… the creator of this video writes “My daughter jaws costume made by my mom Oooootiinniiii” On Monday, we’ll all return to our jobs and likely pass around dozens of links to amazing costumes, they’ll all be different and unique but they will have one thing in common, they were […]
How-TO: Last-Minute Ghost Costume
If you don’t have a costume for this weekend yet, and you don’t want to battle the insane crowds at costume shops, DIY a great last-minute Halloween costume with this cool ghost cloak from Merrilee of mer mag. Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to […]
How-To: Sock Zombies (video)
Learn to turn an old tube sock into a creepy-cute zombie doll in the latest CRAFT Video. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube.