NPR’s All Things Considered had a great piece on Tinkering School! You can listen online here. Software engineer Gever Tulley felt that his friends who were parents were overprotective of their children. So he started the Tinkering School, a summer camp that encourages kids to play with fire, throw spears and take risks. More: Tinkering […]
Using glue, scissors, tape, and straws, Kiteman built this simple turbine – seems a great project to try at home with your mini-makers. – How to make a toy turbine More: Pringles wind turbine (Pleech) -and- turbine round up
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Rachael Rabbit explains how to use up the scrap yarn from your stash to create this multicolored knitted ball.
Sharon Stiteler blogs as Birdchick – she’s an avid birder and beekeeper, and is raising black swallowtail butterflies. She has some great videos of caterpillar activity – the top video is a caterpillar shedding its skin, the next one is a caterpillar sticking out its stink horns, a defense mechanism. Apparently raising black swallowtail butterflies […]
Prismera has a neat tutorial on getting the look of a letterpress by using hot glue and a burnisher – pretty labor-intensive but neat!
Leeches are enjoying a well-deserved resurgence in popularity now that modern medicine has discovered their usefulness in speeding wound healing by increasing blood circulation. This clip is a promo piece for Nova Science Now’s episode about leeches, with Mark Siddall, “lord of leeches” at the American Museum of Natural History. There’s lots more leechy goodness […]
Betz White created instructions for how to turn a pair of your child’s pants into his or her very own neck pillow.
