Check out this great interview with 7-year-old Holden Lee over at Build/Make/Craft/Bake. Holden draws these fantastic creatures that his mom silkscreens onto shirts and sells on Etsy. The bios he writes for each creature are hilarious, and he has a great take on why making art is cool (“I like to draw because whenever I’m […]
Hobby rockets couple scratch-built a fleet of Colonial Vipers from Battlestar Galactica.
Marie at AlphaMom shows you how to make your own back-to-school schultütte — the German tradition of sending your first-grader to school with giant cone filled with school supplies and goodies.
This looks like a fun and easy art project to do with kids, making prints using clay and objects with cool shapes. Check out the process photos over at Skinny laMinx!
The folks at Ideo Labs celebrated the awesome hair of their intern, Alex, by modding a Diana plastic camera so that it adds his hair to whomever is photographed. They gave it to him as a going-away present. Modding a Toy Camera to an “Alex Cam” [Thanks, Dave!]
Make your own towel mat for the bathroom complete with your kiddo’s art in this tutorial by craftevolution. (Thanks Dawn! )
This week’s flashback is one of my favorite pieces from the pages of MAKE, appearing in Volume 07 in August of 2006. It’s not so much a project as a call to action. Gever Tulley, founder of Tinkering School, strongly believes in the power of, well, tinkering, and its positive effects on the minds of children.
