Mervin the Molar Knitting Pattern
For your little ones, knit up Mervin the Molar – The Tooth Fairy’s Friend a pattern by Kat’s Scratch Pad that comes with a tiny pocket to place a fallen tooth.
Kids & Family
Fake TV camera trend takes over elementary school
This fascinating piece, from This American Life (animated by Chris Ware), tells the story of an elementary school where a couple of kids made a TV camera out of cardboard and tempera paint. Soon, the cardboard camera craze went viral and it seemed like every kid was either a camera operator, an anchor, or some […]
Play kitchen made from shelving parts
I really like this homemade play kitchen build from dollar store shelving parts. It cost less than $20 and breaks down for storage.
How-To: Yoshi and Mario Toddler Costumes
Instructables user craineum made these really incredible Yoshi and Mario costumes for his toddlers. You may remember him from last year’s Mega Man costume. Those are lucky kids! I remember one year being Tweety Bird, and my mom made a similarly large mascot-style piece of headgear. Who needs peripheral vision when you’ve got candy? More: […]
William Kamkwamba at MIT
William has been a classic maker since he was very young. One of the most powerful stories they told was about how William learned science. The Malawian famine in the early 2000’s resulted from poor rains causing a crop failure. To conserve their resources, William’s family could not afford the tuition for him to got to secondary school. William did, however have access to a library funded with donated books located at his former primary school. He had been exploring and repairing radios for several years, and in the books in the library, he found useful resources for learning physics, electricity generation and magnetism. Though the books were written in English, rather than his native Chichewa, he would find a picture in the book that showed a diagram of a system that interested him. He would then note the figure number below the illustration and go hunting through the text looking for the passage that referred to the image. Once he found it, he would translate that section of text with the help of the other books on hand and the librarian. Through this process, William taught himself physics so that he could build himself a windmill to power the lights in his family’s house.
How-To: Day of The Dead Necklace For Kids
Brenda from Alpha Mom shares how to make this salt dough skull bead and paper mache marigold Day of the Dead Necklace for kids. The best part: the kids can help!
In the Maker Shed: Gakken Cross Copter EX
The Gakken Cross Copter EX kit has two contra-rotating rotors, driven by one small electric motor that’s connected via a cord to the hand-powered generator. Available in the Maker Shed makershed.com (Oh, and the original video uploaded was 45 seconds!)