Gifts that encourage imaginative play for kids rank high on my list as favorites to give and receive. This clever detective set from Amy on Let’s Explore would be a huge hit in my house. She’s given loads of resources for finding the items she’s included, and the kit could be tweaked a bit to […]
Make a simple circuit cardboard robot Christmas ornament: http://makeprojects.com/Project/LED-Robot-Ornament/1752/1
Learn to build the Supercap Racer Kit from the Maker Shed. http://makeprojects.com/Project/Supercap-Racer-Kit/1659/1
http://www.makershed.com/Supercap_Racer_Kit_p/mstin4.htm&Click=37845
Assemble the Supercap Racer kit and make a new toy that’s fast, unpredictable, and fun to build. Designed by George Albercook (founder of Rocks and Robots) and manufactured by MAKE, the Supercap Racer is a great way to hone your soldering skills, and have some fun.
As a book-loving maker family, we try to find books that will prime our two boys, ages 2 and 4, to have the curiosity, whimsy, creativity, resourcefulness, flexibility of thinking, environmental understanding, and mechanical sense to contribute to the family-wide maker projects we’ve already started to do together. But discovering compelling books that can do this can be challenging.
Gifts that foster creativity and encourage fun are, in my opinion, the very best gifts to give and to receive. Lisa from Grey Luster Girl created this handmade paper doll kit for her daughters, and it’s sure to bring hours of imaginative play. Customizing my dolls was one of my dearest wishes when I was […]
It may not be the flashiest toy in the box, but there’s something magical about play food—it never fails to get a kid’s imagination going, drawing boys and girls alike into hours of creative play. For me, it’s always the added details that make handmade food stand out from the pack, so I’m pretty darn […]
Science communication designer David Harris wanted to make a unique toy for his nephew Charlie, who was born with cerebral palsy. Charlie’s vision is poor but he’s very tactile and auditory, so David designed a location-aware teddy bear that reads RFID tags and plays different customizable sounds depending on where it is or what object […]
