HOW TO – Make an Octupus Puppet Glove
Julie K in Taiwan recreated an octopus puppet where your fingers get to be the octopus tentacles and wrote a tutorial. What a great project to do with kids.
Kids & Family
ThingamaKIT build photos
Our pal John Edgar Park has posted photos of his building of the new ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs.
Papercraft fauna
Papercraft Paradise has links to a couple really neat paper models. Konicaminolta has a wonderful fiddler crab model. There are 2 PDFs – one has the parts, the other has instructions. And Kirin has a cute polar bear papercraft with a wobbly head; also has 2 pdfs. (you have to click through a couple times […]
Up periscope
Gunk on Floor (where do people get these names??) put together a great Instructable on making a spy periscope – it’s a classic kid’s project.
HOW TO – Make Glue from Milk
Summer Pierre from An Accident of Hope recently discovered the great resource Wiki How and decided to illustrate the instructions for making glue from milk. The project was already great to do with kids, but now it is even better with these fun illustrated instructions. via Craft & Found.
HOW TO – Salad Spinner Art
Megan at the Brassy Apple blog (Idaho) whipped up this tutorial for making salad spinner paint art, a perfect activity for kids. I remember doing these at carnivals as a kid, but you can do it at home with a salad spinner!
Robots, behind the veil
Matt Kirkland peels back our illusions about cute robot toys, via Bot Junkie. The machine inside the ghost?
