Knitted World
This is a wonderful animated short that was shown at the Encounters Short Film Festival. It’s called “Don’t Let It All Unravel”, it was directed by Sarah Cox, and all the action is knitted – or frogged (un-knitted). (Thanks, Melody!)
Kids & Family
Great Balls of Fire! Make Your Own Chemistry Lab…
Anyone can make their own flaming, fuming, booming DIY chemistry set as good as those from the golden age, or better!
Twitchie Scorpion
Download the MP4 Video or HD Version | Subscribe to CRAFT in iTunes | mov | 3g2 I made this scorpion toy with a Twitchie Robot Kit. I’m really afraid of scorpions where I live in Arizona, so I thought a friendly toy would help me get used to them. I made his plush body […]
Thanksgiving papercraft redux
Macula offers a free download of this boxy little Thanksgiving turkey papercraft – a fun holiday project for kids!
Artful vegetables
Chinese artist Ju Duoqi has recreated Western masterpieces in vegetables to amazing effect. “In the summer of 2006, I bought a few kilograms of peas, and sat there quietly for two days peeling them, before stringing them on a wire and turning them into a skirt, a top, a headdress and a magic wand. I […]
HOW TO – Make Rock Candy
The Exploratorium site has a section on cooking science – I found some neat info there about the science of sugar and a recipe for making rock candy. The white stuff we know as sugar is sucrose, a molecule composed of 12 atoms of carbon, 22 atoms of hydrogen, and 11 atoms of oxygen (C12H22O11). […]
DollarFan – What could you do?
Enlightenment in the checkout line. After forgetting the liter of olive oil that I went to the store to get and had to return for, I saw on my return trip, down on the bottom shelf of the rack in the chute to the register was a ratty box of beat up plastic fans. Summer […]
