Kids & Family

Knit Very Hungry Caterpillar Mobile

My friend, Kristin, shared this amazing knit mobile version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar with me. It was created by Flickr user, spinthrift115, but she doesn’t give any information about it with the pictures. Regardless, it’s beautifully done and a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing, Kristin! Related: Hungry Caterpillar Cupcake Train

How-To: Talking Puppet

Michelle Min wanted to make a puppet for her nephew that will remind him of her uncle, Michelle’s brother. She hacked a record-your-own-greeting card to put it in this puppet of her brother (he’s a cook, hence the hat). Now when Bosung plays with the puppet, it will remind him of his uncle, with actual […]

Pancake Dinosaurs

Matt Mets @ Make: Online writes: Jim of Jim’s Pancakes made this delicious looking 3D Dinosaur Bones Pancake for his daughter. He doesn’t have directions on this specific build yet, however you can get the general idea from his flower tutorial. And here I thought I was doing pretty well by making smiley faces!

4-H Science Project

I always thought 4-H was the next group that may rapidly adopt microcontrollers to do sensor work – that just might happen. Listen in – 4-H Science Project @ Science Friday… The organization holds its third annual 4-H National Youth Science Day, in which kids around the country studied carbon dioxide. On October 6, 2010, […]