Stamping letters into metal can lead to many lovely personalized projects for yourself and friends. Monogrammed projects make excellent gifts for showers and birthdays and add personality to scrapbook covers. When stamping letters into metal, it’s important to practice first.
Making a homemade envelope is easy and can be made to suit any sized card. It's very handy for oddly sized cards. For a clean crisp envelope, use white printing paper or white butcher paper. Envelopes can also be made from recycled materials such as newspaper, grocery bags, news print, magazine pages and junk mail.
Literary figures from the Hobbit to Tarzan all know that you don't venture into the wild without a bit of rope. Here's a project that will make sure you have about 13 feet of versatile parachute cord all the time, whether your jungle is real or the urban kind.
Playing with play dough is a fantastic sensory activity for kids. Along with being able to touch, smell, and see it, they often want to taste it too. In fact, it can be a harrowing task convincing them not to sneak a nibble here and there.
A throwback to childhood play, these paper dolls are fun for any age. Use our templates to create your own customized dolls (the templates are located in the resources section on the last slide). Decorate the dolls and their clothing to fit your own style. The possibilities are endless!
Decoupage is a simple technique that lets you add custom designs to almost any surface -- wood, glass, terra cotta and most plastics are great surfaces for decoupage. Use a solid sheet of decorative paper to cover a tray or box, or create a collage using magazine clippings, cuttings from photos or random shapes.
Deciduous trees depend on their leaves for food production. As the weather cools and day length shortens, they shed their leaves, food production stops and the trees go dormant for the winter. All deciduous trees produce flowers that must be pollinated before they can reproduce.
Making fossils out of clay is more fun than a barrel of prehistoric monkeys, and you’ll feel just like an explorer when you make them. There are two types of fossils you can make: one where an object leaves an impression on the clay, and one where an object is hidden in it.
One of the first steps in hand sewing is threading the needle. This method, handed down through generations, takes a little bit of patience and practice, but before you know it you will be tying a knot with your eyes closed. Depending on your project, you may need a single strand of thread or a double.
Making a three dimensional model is a great way for kids to learn about living organisms. It gives them the opportunity to identify all of the working parts in a very hands-on fashion.