Here’s an easy tutorial for pendants made from Scrabble tiles and decorative papers. The process is interesting – it could be used for modding buttons and knobs. I’d never heard of Diamond Glaze before, it looks like that’s the key to the professional looking finish. Via Angry Chicken
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: user Adorn Jewelry created this soft body cavity with colorful organs as a hands-on aid for her anatomy students. I wish I had one of these back in biology class!
The Beijing Olympics inspired the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group to build the incredibly detailed LEGO Sport City – here’s the flickr set. They used 300,000 bricks and 4,500 mini-figures! Via Metafilter
Peacay at BibliOdyssey has a roundup of illustrations of early microscopes. “They were incredibly small, nay so small, in my sight, that I judged that even if 100 of these very wee animals lay stretched out one against another, they could not reach to the length of a grain of coarse Sand.” [Antonie van Leeuwenhoek […]
Bonnie at the Star Wars site, shows kids how to make their own handy lightsaber pencil holder, keeping those pens and pencils together while representing their favorite Jedi, or Sith, at the same time.
Wise Craft shares a fun tutorial you can do with kids, which shows you how to make your own rock candy. I’ve also seen these used at tea parties–stir your tea with the rock candy and it will sweeten your drink!
Learn how to make your own homemade play dough from Amy at Let’s Explore.
