Toys and Games

Flashback: Kid safety labels

Flashback: Kid safety labels

This week’s flashback is one of my favorite pieces from the pages of MAKE, appearing in Volume 07 in August of 2006. It’s not so much a project as a call to action. Gever Tulley, founder of Tinkering School, strongly believes in the power of, well, tinkering, and its positive effects on the minds of children.

The office crossbow

The office crossbow

From the MAKE Flickr pool Wow – feeling pretty lucky I don’t share a workplace Flickr member zomie84 and his cubicle crossbow – Designed to shoot marshmellows, pens, or just about anything you can fit in it to attack your cube mates. I can get about 25ft with a bic pen. The trigger is spring […]