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.
My mom has had a long love affair with frogs (made birthdays really easy when I was growing up), and I recently caught the bug myself (so to speak) at the California Academy of Science. So of course I fell in love with this adorable froggie hot sock (or hot frog wheat bag, as it’s […]
Here’s a fun project you can do during the family MAKEcation (or vacation, for that matter): create a chest-camera rig so you can spin your kids around and take photos of them in flight. (Maybe if you get them super dizzy, they’ll forget the fact that you’re not taking them off the family compound this […]
Singer and Instructables are having a Kids Crafts Contest, and you could win a serger or sewing machine! Craft projects are excellent teaching tools – they help kids explore their creativity as they learn valuable hands-on skills. Summertime is the perfect time for crafting with, by, and for kids, so we’ve teamed up with Singer […]
Heather of Dollar Store Crafts shares how to create this adorable Yoda hat from simple Dollar Store supplies. The Yoda hat is a quick and easy project, and you can make three or four of them from one dollar store blanket, making them quite the bargain! She also promises to share a handful of additional […]
Coilhouse has a fun piece on the recent Cardboard Tube Fighting League tournament in SF. Carboard Dueling: Through A Series of Tubes
Julie Yu, a post-doc at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, has a really good collection of unusual home lab activities on her page, including a home column chromatography experiment using common materials, which is the first of its kind I’ve seen.
