How can we give more kids the opportunity to make things and bring them to exhibit at Maker Faire? That was the question asked first by Tony DeRose of Pixar, who realized how much he and his family enjoyed working on a project and exhibiting it at Maker Faire and wanted to help provide a similar opportunity for others.
Emily from The Student/Teacher has a tutorial for this sweet embroidered version of a growth chart over on The Long Thread. The quilt version of this traditional record of your child’s growth would be an incredible heirloom piece.
You may have seen this determined young woman on The Ellen Show in 2008. Michala Riggle, then age 10, was busy raising $200,000.00 to help her local hospital incorporate an experimental treatment that she’d seen work well for her younger brother Evan, who has autism. Michala reached her goal by making beaded bracelets and selling […]
In this Etsy video, Joel Henriques shows us how to make a simple paper bird mobile, demonstrating why this is a great project to do with kids.
One of my kids’ favorite activities is building massive tents with bedsheets. Sometimes, the furniture doesn’t cooperate, though, and the sheets fall all over the place leaving the kids frustrated and disappointed. This cool a-frame tent from Rubyellen from Cakies seems like it’d be the perfect fix for that problem. See the full how-to on […]
Frustrated with a curriculum change away from traditional CS courses in public schools, game developer David Braben built an ultra-low cost single board computer on a USB stick to facilitate a return to programming and learning how computers actually work.
Make your own diving submarine toy out of a potato! Matt Richardson walks you through this project by Bob Knetzger in MAKE Volume 26.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/05/the-diving-spudmarine.html
