HOW TO – Rock Candy
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!
Kids & Family
Homemade Play Dough
Learn how to make your own homemade play dough from Amy at Let’s Explore.
The Manga guide to statistics
Ok, this looks cool… Think you can’t have fun learning statistics? Think again. The Manga Guide to Statistics will teach you everything you need to know about this essential discipline, while entertaining you at the same time. With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics called manga and serious educational content, the EduManga format is already […]
HOW TO – Lazy Days Skirt
Oliver + S shares a free pattern download for making this easy, breezy summer skirt for a little girl.
Kaleidoscope your photos
Here’s a fun online toy I found through Deep Fun– you paste in the url from an online image you like, and the software converts it into a kaleidoscope image – you can change the kaleidoscope image by clicking and dragging with your mouse. (that’s my cat, Jamie)
Cow poo for your amusement (rides)
The California State Fair has an amusement ride powered by cow manure. It’s called the “Barnyard Animal Train”, and uses biogas from Pacific Gas and Electric. The fair runs through September 1st, so there’s still time to go! Via Ecogeek More: The power of poo On Human Manure
Mark Applebaum’s musical sculptures
Mark Applebaum is a musician (and professor at Stanford) who makes incredibly complex sound sculptures from found objects. (Via DeepFun) The instruments consist of threaded rods, nails, wire strings stretched through a series of pulleys and turnbuckles, plastic combs, bronze braising rod blow-torched and twisted, doorstops, shoehorns, ratchets, steel wheels, springs, lead and PVC pipe, […]