This is terrifying … A 6-year-old boy is floating over northeastern Colorado in a homebuilt lighter-than-air craft and authorities are racing to try and rescue him. The homemade flying saucer , covered in foil and filled with helium, lifted the boy into the air near Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became untethered at […]
Instructables user jtigermask13 has posted a tutorial on making these working children’s iPod costumes.
Susan B. Anderson shares her knit watermelon hat pattern which is just so adorable to knit up for kids. Click the link and take a peek at the adorable photo of two little girls wearing their watermelon hat and eating watermelon!
As a summation assignment for the CD scrounging, battery pack and junkbot project, students made videos showing their junkbot. In the videos, which were made on whatever equipment they had available to them, they were to show the ‘bot, explain what they did to make it and explain a bit about how it works. Part of the project was a writing assignment had them write about their Junkbot and tell about what they learned in the project. Not all of the students put the videos online, instead emailing them in. Having the videos online definitely creates a better, more lasting record.
By Vickie Howell If you’re like me, you pretty much start celebrating Halloween by about September 15th. Skulls, witches, bats, and ghosts make me smile like a kid at Christmas (no disrespect). Instead of keeping the visions of pumpkins dancing in my head, though, I prefer to sew them onto cloth. Join me won’tcha, by […]
Today on CRAFT: MAKE reader and father of two kids, Dave Simon contributes a great Halloween tutorial on how to make monster and alien feet. From the article: Where I work we cannot have elaborate costume festivities. Only one item of clothing can be “Halloweenish”. For instance, one year your hat can be the costume, […]
How-To: Make Monster and Alien Feet By Dave Simon Where I work we cannot have elaborate costume festivities. Only one item of clothing can be “Halloweenish”. For instance, one year your hat can be the costume, then another year the shoes you wear can be the costume. I intended to be a duck, and wanted […]
