Regina of Creative Kismet shares how to make these adorable super easy super hero capes for kids. What I love most is that the blank applique circle on the cape where kids can customize their own super hero emblem. Regina made these capes for her son’s recent super hero birthday, and guests decorated their capes […]
At the last Phoenix DIY meeting, Lisa Jacobs ran a paper making workshop. We learned how to use recycled office paper as the base for art papers, to which we added colored napkins for pigment and dried flowers, glitter, conductive thread, and many others as “inclusions,” the things that jazz up the paper inside and […]
Diane at CraftyPod and her partner, Katin Imes, created this fantastic puppet theater for Katin’s nephew. They started with a cardboard box base, and covered it in layers of duct tape to hide the graphics printed on the box. There are some fantastic little engineering bits that you have to read about to believe, and […]
A monstrous testament to resourcefulness and the valor of the human spirit, rendered in the most modest toy, made of plastic bottles, rusty nails, and bits of wire. Both sort of heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. Taken in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. Toy Tractor from Recycled Plastic
Here’s a sweet piece with a dad and his two daughters working with a drawbot they made from yogurt cups, DC motors, and art pens. They made some really nice wrapping paper. What a great thing for kids to be able to declare: “We made robots and they drew the art on the paper your […]
Here’s a fun project for kids to do now when it’s cold and snowing, make these winter suncatchers. Way Up High in the Monkey Bread Tree shows us how with her girls. [ via The Crafty Crow ]
Go is hard to play while traveling; the pieces slide all around, and the board is too big to maneuver, but you can play on any size board really, so instructables user Roger-X made this travel go set using cardboard, paper, and matchsticks. Holes in the board hold the matchsticks in place while playing.
