Doorway Pupper Theater
Crafty Daisies shares the quick and clever idea of using a tension rod and some fabric to create a doorway puppet theater for the kidlets. So simple!
Kids & Family
Cardboard boxes are more fun
Holyjuan writes… Greg’s Star Wars Trade Federation MTT “Troop Carrier” arrived. We took it out of the box. Here he is playing with it. When I was a kid I asked for cardboard boxes for my birthday, good times.
Early video review of Spykee the robot
Our pal Robert Oschler sent us this message: The first videos by actual owners of the long-awaited Spykee robot have just surfaced on the Web. In the video, the open source Spykee WiFi robot made by Meccano is put through its paces by biker blogger Sven. He shows the robot in unassembled form, then cuts […]
HOW TO – Felt Kids Crown
Juicy Bits shows us how to create a comfy felt crown for a kid’s birthday (or anytime!).
Halloween raw materials – Van Dyke’s taxidermy
It’s always exciting to get the Van Dyke’s catalog in the mail – they have hippo forms, who taxidermies a hippo??!! Some things are a bit pricey – $22 a pair for fake duck feet! But there’s lots of strange stuff with great Halloween potential. Those pit-bull-looking things are actually bear head forms. (If I […]
Lion mask Instructable
If you started RIGHT NOW, you could *possibly* get this incredible lion mask done by Halloween. Solion has put together an incredibly detailed Instructable for an animatronic lion mask with stereo night vision and amplified hearing – 117 steps! See his other animal costume work on his site, Lion of the Sun.
Embroidered General Grevious Tote
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Woundupladybug made this bag for her son, featuring the Star Wars character General Grevious stitched up with glow-in-the-dark embroidery floss from Sublime Stitching.
