Kids Crafts

HOW TO – Tire Swing

Peter writes in about Instructables user adlabens, who shows us how to make a really classy tire swing. I agree with one of the commenters suggestions, though, to add plastic tubing or garden hose over the lower sections of the chain to protect little fingers from pinches.

Girl’s Gathered Vintage Valance Top

Girl’s Gathered Vintage Valance Top

Stitch Lounge has a new pattern up on how to refashion a girl’s gathered vintage valance (curtain) top. Mel R writes: We love the fabric in vintage valance curtains and they can be found aplenty at your neighborhood thrift store — or in your grandma’s kitchen! Valances (as opposed to longer curtains) are already hemmed […]

Cardboard Dramatic Double Doors

Do you or your kids like to make movies that require dramatic doors? The teens at Phantom Moose Films made these great ones from nothing more than cardboard and spray paint. The video is of three different ways they can be used. The site has plenty of pictures from which to glean the processes they […]