Kids Crafts

How-To: Haunted Milk Carton House

Jennifer at Naughty Secretary Club shows you how to make a haunted milk carton house perfect for little ones to play with or fun Halloween decor. Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool prizes. Costumes, decor, food – whatever you create for Halloween […]

Leaf Creatures

I’m finally accepting that it’s truly autumn, so I gasped with delight when I saw these amazing leaf creatures by Mortéza Esmaîli Sohi. They’re called “des feuilles tres, tres chouettes” which translates roughly as very, very cute leaves, which indeed they are. I’ve of course seen artwork made out of leaves and flowers before, but […]

Mixing Oobleck

Chris Connors on Make: Online snapped this quick video of the New York Hall of Science crew mixing a big vat of oobleck, a non-newtonian fluid consististing of cornstarchand water. They had kids jumping on the stuff all weekend during Maker Faire, to the delight of participants and onlookers.

DIY Silly Bands

One of the must-stop spots at last weekend’s DIY Street Fair in Ferndale, Mich., was i3 Detroit’s DIY Silly Band Station. Some 500 bracelets were made by using 10:1 tin-based silicone. (As you’ll see in the video below, this was definitely an adult-driven activity due to the components used.) Wire shapes were formed, heated up […]