Inspiring Pipe Cleaner Animals
Artist Lauren Ryan creates animals made entirely from pipe cleaners – she never uses glue and only occasionally scissors and a little felt tip marker to create the…
Friendship bracelets
If you can tie a knot, you can make a friendship bracelet. Follow along with The Purl Bee photograph tutorial and create beautiful patterned designs in…
How to draw a bear…thinking about something
Jon Klassen, is the rock-star-like author/illustrator of our current favourites I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat. Over on the Guardian’s website find…
Homemade Paper Lanterns
Homemade paper lanterns… such a colourful, cheap and easy way to dress up a room or a patio for a party. Get the kids involved with…
Wooden family
Inspired by mid-century designer Alexander Girard, Meta from One More Mushroom shows us how to create a cool, modernist wooden family out of turned wooden furniture legs and…
Knit Octopus pattern from The Pearl Bee
Whitney at The Pearl Bee has designed a beautiful knit octopus. To be knit in sport weight alpaca yarn for a soft and cuddly toy perfect…
Making play things from packaging with Makedo
Makedo is a simple set of tools for helping kids (adults, inventors, creators, artists) turn cardboard packaging into fabulous structures and play objects. Check out the…
Inspiration: Masking Tape Town
As part of a promotion for a Japanese masking tape manufacturer, art director Koji Iyama constructed a cardboard city and invited children to decorate it with…
DIY Geometric Stamp Town
This beautiful artwork was made by Claire from Fellow Fellow with simple geometric shapes cut out of stamp blocks. We think this idea would be pretty…
Make your own sidewalk chalk
This looks so great – DIY sidewalk chalk using plaster of paris and tempera (poster) paint. Who knew it was so easy? There are great instructions and…