Kids & Family

How-To: Magnetic Googly Eyes

Sean Ragan @ MAKE writes: I went through a googly-eyes phase when I was in college, wandering ’round applying them to the most inappropriate and disturbing objects I could find, and taking pictures. The mentionable results of this project include googly-eyed tombstones, firearms, surgical instruments, and urinal cakes. None of these photos will ever see […]

Recipe: Make Homemade Fruit Leather

By Katie Goodman Fruit Roll-Ups are fun treats, but they’re not exactly something I want my kids eating every day. I recently experimented with making homemade fruit leather. It’s so good! Recipes like this are perfect for when you have lots of less-than-prime fruit on hand that needs to be used up fast. In this […]

How-To: Giant Slip And Slide

As a kid, one of my favorite backyard summertime activities was playing on a Slip ‘n Slide. It was always a bit frustrating, though, to have to stand in line with the other kids and just go one at a time down the slippery strip of plastic. Dianne of The Inspired Housewife shares her secret […]