Cardboard Tube Fighting League
Coilhouse has a fun piece on the recent Cardboard Tube Fighting League tournament in SF. Carboard Dueling: Through A Series of Tubes
Kids & Family
Home science projects from Exploratorium
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.
How-To: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk
There’s something so summery about seeing hopscotch squares and colorful chalk drawings on the sidewalk as you walk through your neighborhood, and the kids that live near me have been pretty creative. So I was delighted to see this great sidewalk chalk how-to recently. It never occurred to me that I could make my own, […]
Nifty magnetic construction toy
While it doesn’t have anything to do with actual buckyballs, this set of 216 rare earth magnetic balls looks like a lot of fun. I just wish they didn’t cost $31 (with shipping). BuckyBalls [via Laughing Squid]
Birdie Potpourri
Birdie Potpourri By Jessica Wilson Years ago my mother had a mad love bird living in her home. My brother found it flying about the San Fernando Valley and presented it to her as a pet. The thing was crazy psychotic as many single love birds are wont to be, so my mother dubbed it […]
How-To: Make Alphabet Block Magnets
I love these fun alphabet block magnets from Plum Pudding, and love how she’s shown how to use them not just as refrigerator magnets, but also as photo displays and even place card holders! [ via Whip-Up ]
How-To: Sew a Reversible Sun Hat
How-To: Sew a Reversible Sun Hat By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective This week I’m passing along a much-beloved pattern that has been in my lexicon of favorites for years now. It’s a super easy pattern that suits kids as well as adults, and it goes together in a snap. My 8-year-old […]