Kids & Family

A sightseer’s guide to engineering

A sightseer’s guide to engineering

If you are looking for a way to smarten up your travels, you may want to look into the Sightseer’s Guide to Engineering provided by the National Society of Professional Engineers and National Engineers Week. From the entry on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge: To engineers, crossing the Tacoma Narrows presented more of an economic challenge. […]

Homemade Stationery

Homemade Stationery By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective Welcome back! We hope your week has been sweetly satisfying as you wrap up your school work and prepare for full-on summer. Here in our neighborhood in Austin, Texas, school is officially out for summer and the kids are already chomping at the bit […]

Jello Monoprints

Jello Monoprints By Jessica Wilson As we all know, gelatin has a unique property of being at once delightful to some and repulsive to others. I land somewhere in the middle, I like to play with it but please don’t make me eat it. Years and years ago I took a multimedia class and one […]

Paper Yachts book contest

Paper Yachts book contest

I’ve always been fascinated by origami, but never had the patience for learning it. If you think you do have what it takes to model the world in folded paper, here’s an opportunity to get a free copy of a unique origami book. Our pals over at Potter Craft have given us three copies of […]

Simple fabric soft synth

Simple fabric soft synth

Instructables user pstretz made this Arduino-based simple soft tone generator for another user (carmitsu) who wrote: I teach music in elementary school. We play a lot of recorder music. i.e. the kids play little flutes…… I have several special needs kids who can are using these black poster boards with circles that have the name […]