Easy Tea Cakes for Kids
Zakka Life shows you how to make easy tea cakes for kids. I love the petite size – perfect for kiddie tea parties.
Kids & Family
Howtoons hands, BEAM bots, and enthusiasm
Twelve-year-old Cassidy Mountjoy is the perfect example of a young maker, and more than once his enthusiasm has buoyed my commitment to all the MAKE endeavors, be it the blog, the magazine, or Maker Faires of all sorts and sizes.
How-to: Building a compressed air rocket launcher
Summer is here, and I was looking for something to do with the kids. They raved about how much fun the rocket launching was at Maker Faire in San Mateo, and I wanted to bring a little bit of that fun home. All I needed to do was build my kids a kit version of Rick Schertle’s compressed air rocket launcher that was featured in MAKE Volume 15.
Happy centennial, Tom Swift!
Tom Swift, the original geek-kid/adventurer/maker, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the original copyright this July. The books, over 100 of them, were written by a stable of authors writing as Victor Appleton. All the stories involve the “boy inventor” creating some amazing new bit of technology and having an adventure with it. Like many inventors, […]
Machined aluminum speedster
In response to Phillip’s post about the boattail racer car models, MAKE subscriber Dan Bishop pointed us to the machined metal speedsters that he produces and sells. Dan Bishop – Speedster More: Boattail Racer – Luxury pinewood derby cars
Little Red Riding Hood and Big Bad Wolf Flip Doll Pattern
I’m a huge fan of Laura Wilson’s flip dolls (her St. George and the Dragon makes me swoon!) and I love this Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf flip doll. She’s offering 300 free downloads of the pattern and there are still some available!
Toolbox: DIY Vacuum former
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]