DIY Steel Pipe Menorah
Israeli maker Avi Solomon was looking to provide his 7-year-old son Uriel with a maker angle on the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah. Together, they built a menorah out of steel pipe and LEDs.
Kids & Family
Last-Minute Halloween: Felt Owl Mask
Kids heading to a super last-minute Halloween party tonight? Whip up a wonderful felt owl mask!
DIY Donut Pumpkin
This is the cutest no-carve pumpkin DIY I’ve seen. I want a donut pumpkin stat! Via Studio DIY
Let’s Make a Pinball Machine
Amy Oyler, The Scientific Mom is at it again. This time she has a great hands-on project to present: a pinball machine you can make with household materials!
Flashback: Toy Batcopter
Make your own antique toy-inspired paper batcopter with this fun CRAFT tutorial!
Father/Son Sugar Rocket Madness
Earlier this month we followed William Gurstelle’s instructions to build the Homemade Sugar Rockets featured in MAKE Volume 35 (The Danger Issue). We failed, learned, failed some more, learned some more, and through persistence had great success and improved the recipe to our liking, and hopefully to yours, too. I hope the following notes on the process will help you with this fast, easy, and super-fun project.
How-To: Delorean Push Car
For those who will be pushing around tiny passengers this halloween, here’s a brilliant idea from Cory Newton-Smith to convert an ordinary push car into an amazingly accurate Delorean time machine from Back To The Future for her own little Marty McFly.