This came to us from Dean McCully, by way of Jake von Slatt: Take Flight is a hugely popular flying festival series at Northern California airports. We recruit up to 100 volunteer pilots of small airplanes and helicopters, and provide free flights for about 750-1000 young people with disabilities, at risk youth, homeless kids, foster […]
The Purl Bee has a tutorial for whipping up this sweet little sunhat in patriotic colors for baby’s first 4th of July.
I have two young children, and I love finding fun craft projects to try with them, especially during the summer months. However, I realize that sometimes I just get excited about the long list of “things” we can do and make, and don’t take the time to slow down and realize how the time we […]
kidlauncher from connors934 on Vimeo. Kidlaunching is a variation on the slip and slide model of backyard/park fun. What we did this day was lay out a hundred feet or so of plastic sheet on the grass, tied a gigantic elastic band to a tree and poured water from a park fountain over the plastic […]
Here is a nice round-up of some simple sneaky inks. The old favorites like lemon juice and vinegar are there, but also some more sophisticated systems using stuff like cerium oxalate and iodine fuming. From the pages of MAKE: Mike Golembewksi shows us how to make an invisible inkjet printer in MAKE 16 – Spy […]
Ann at hotcakes has a great project for reusing your kids’ artwork into greeting cards. You can download each of the card templates above in PDF format.
Make a printed Father’s Day card in 10 minutes using a polystrene pizza plate as a canvas from Jox of The Knitted Blog.
