Kids & Family

How-To: Make a Cat Toy

How-To: Make a Cat Toy By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective We’re staying at Grandma’s house for a few weeks this summer. Lots of swimming and card games and board games and croquet and lots of totally unstructured free time too. Grandma doesn’t have a regular craft room but we do have […]

Kids Make Whip Cream

Alice and Arlo, hard at work and focused on the prize! I’m always amazed at how satisfying it is to beat your own whip cream, especially by hand, and for kids it’s no exception. I can rarely get either of my boys to hunker down in the kitchen with me for a real baking session, […]

Twister Blanket

Here’s a neat idea for a Twister bed spread. White fleece seems a bit dangerous to me, but you could always work the colored dots into a larger overall pattern or color scheme, too. Perfect for youngsters and teenagers alike, in my opinion.

Pocket Anti-Boredom Kit

Instructables user threadbare shows us how to make a kid’s anti-boredom kit that will fit in a pocket. I’m thinking of making an adult version for myself! There’s only so long I can spend playing solitaire on my phone, and those bubbles would really be fun in a waiting room.

Altoids tin trebuchet

Altoids tin trebuchet

And with this “Curiously Strong Trebuchet” I think we’ve reached some sort of unholy singularity where everything that can possible go in or on a mint tin has done so. Now I think we’re all going to die. The Curiously Strong Trebuchet: A Pocket Sized Medieval Siege Engine