“Cause I’m a Rocket Fan…”
Ryan Bavetta, of Crazy Builders, bolted a 3.7 HP model airplane engine onto the back of a skateboard to create this rocket board. Propeller Powered Skateboard [via PopSci]
Kids & Family
Pool Toss Game
Pool Toss Game By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective If you joined us last week, you know we headed out of the sewing room and into the pool! It’s hot here in Austin, and when it’s hot here in June, you know you’ve got three months more to go of the forecast […]
Take Flight for Kids events, Aug 8th
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 […]
How-To: Make a Newborn 4th of July Sunhat
The Purl Bee has a tutorial for whipping up this sweet little sunhat in patriotic colors for baby’s first 4th of July.
Creating Relationships While You Craft With Your Kids
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 […]
Kidlaunching!
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 […]
Secret ink smorgasboard
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 […]