Learn to macrame with the classic technique to create some vintage-style projects – a plant hanger, a belt, basket-style coasters & an owl wall hanging – from macrame’s ’70s heyday.
Use an old milk or juice carton, wax and ice to make a fancy-looking DIY milk carton candle that’s perfect for the holidays! It’s inexpensive, and the directions are even easy enough for a kid to follow.
Incredible Edibles, the candy-making Thingmaker counterpart, said that their Sooper Gooper would mold sugarless liquid Gobble Degoop into chewy gumdrop-like morsels in 4 flavors. Here’s how it worked.
A brief history of Colorforms Adapted from articles published in The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) February 11, 1997 and the Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) May
Vintage Thingmaker toys were pretty basic – but so fun. Fill a mold with colorful plastic goo, then heat it up. The result: rubber bugs… and flowers, dragons, monsters, cars and more.
The vintage Spirograph toys let you create millions of colorful, startlingly beautiful extraordinarily intricate designs in infinite variety – all you needed were pens, paper and the kit’s plastic gears and wheels. Take a look!
Here’s how to make salt dough – also called baker’s clay – to craft creative Christmas ornaments at home! It’s easy to stir up a batch, and makes getting into the holiday spirit extra fun.
With a few cardboard boxes and some aluminum foil, you can make robot costumes that will be the hit of the party. Some easy-to-make masks of aluminum foil will help to make each costume a little different.
There are so many clever ways to make vintage Easter egg crafts – from using colored foods, paper and glue, hollowed-out eggshells and other classic creative ways to make retro Easter decorations. Get some how-tos here!
Here’s how you can make vintage stained-glass style Christmas ornaments from hard candy! This crafty project is probably easier than you’d think.
Christmas toy cookies for kids of all ages 44 fabulous designs, from drums to choo-choo trains… fun to bake, even more fun to eat! Christmas
Remember apple head dolls – an early American craft with folk art roots that was popular again in the ’60s and ’70s? Find out how to make these shrunken apple dolls, and more about the art of dollmaking.
Holly Hobbie is the old-fashioned girl dressed in calico with lace-up boots and an enormous sunbonnet who now appears on toys, gift wrap, decoupage kits, wall plaques, figurines, collector plates and more.
For sheer imagination and warmth, Christmas cannot be compared with any other holiday. People of all ages will love these cute Christmas cookie houses, which can be made easily and inexpensively. See examples and get directions here!
So pretty, such fun to do! One of the nicest Christmas customs we know is having both young and old make ornaments for the tree!
Make your own gay trimmings, advises clever El Paso decorator by Bessie Simpson Remember the days when Christmas trimmings were not to be found in
Quiet fun for kids with paper bags and crayons Paper bag puppets: Start with small paper bags folded flat so that the squared bottom of
Say “I love you” with your heart and hands. You can do it. All it takes are a few odds and ends and some Elmer’s glue.
Stocking stuffers are child’s play These Christmas stocking stuffers decorated by the children for mom and dad show how deodorant cans can be used for
Crayola Corner: “Growing” fun with crayons (1959) Crayola “family tree.” On shelf paper or a long strip of wrapping paper draw a six-foot “tree-trunk” with
Preserving autumn leaves It is very natural that one should wish to preserve permanently the bright-colored beauty of the leaves of fall; and many are
Crayola Corner: Constructive ideas to keep children happily occupied Shirt board shields. Grey shirt cardboards look like steel — make perfect “knight’s armor.” Sword, shield,
Spider webs are amazing creations and fun to collect Watch nature’s most gifted spinners weave. Know a collector’s delight in finding and mounting their silken
Shrinky Dinks inventor speaks to local students By Randy Rendfeld The inventor of the “Shrinky Dinks” told Edgewood Elementary students Thursday not to let their
Make Easter egg shell dollies by Lina Beard The little eggshell dollies are so bewitching, you will surely want a lot of them to be
Fashions for fun – with teen jive! America’s feminine teenagers, who have acquired a reputation as inventors of their own fashion fads — plus their own colorful
A terrarium is not only easy and fun to put together, it’s a snap to care for. Here’s how you go about it.
What better use to make of those big, clumsy cartons that enclose your new refrigerator or range? Make a fun toyland for the kids!
There is never a boy child who does not love to play soldier. The young soldier will be happier if he has a soldier cap. Either of the paper ones represented here in reduced size will answer the purpose.
Our jolly cut-out Santa really jumps! >> Click on either image to get a larger printable version! He jumps and he jiggles — a spritely
A Dynamite night light Next time you’re dining out — outdoors, that is — add an extra twinkle of your own to the starlight night!
Build guided missile ships… jet planes with Revell Authentic Kits from Woolworth’s U.S.S. BOSTON, first Guided Missile Cruiser, built 1955. Revell model shows com-pletely detailed
As every hostess knows, children can become rather fidgety sitting around at Thanksgiving while all the grownups reminisce about the “good old days.” So this
Super-Crayons run circles around ordinary crayons Ordinary crayons are, well, ordinary. But new Super-Crayons are extraordinary! They’re hard-wearing, blend beautifully, erase, come in lots of rainbow
Young Model Builders Club What a great way to encourage your child’s creative talents! And what a wonderful source of pride and delight for your
She cements seashells by the seashore to create A seashell menagerie The little beach creatures shown here are so amusing, they may turn you into
Say it with a Cookiegram Cake Mate gives you all the tips you need to put your thoughts in icing. Campaign cookies, exam cookies, apology cookies,
24-carat ideas to make your room sparkle and shine It’s a sad, sad story, and we hear it every day. You’ve cut down on video
Table of contents Who wants yesterday’s papers? You do, because they’re the beginning of the end — the new end table for your room, that
If you’ve got tons of cassette tapes tumbling all over your room, here’s a craft project to get you on the fast track to tidying them up.
Soft talk: Make a bulletin board Bulletin! Bulletin! The message is loud and clear that soft sculpture is here to stay! You can be a
Dancing dolls Children’s Department To the young beginner, this is a very easy pattern to commence and practice upon. If our young pupils have any
Idea factory: Color a bird Johnny drew a bird for grandma to put up in her kitchen Idea factory: Paper flowers Jackie colored paper
This easy-to-make cardboard dollhouse is a project that can grow with your children!
Fun to do… fun to bird-watch all summer long! How to turn a Pure-Pak milk carton into a beautiful home for birds It’s easy with
Pans, cans, jars and tops: Recycled as party props! Stop! Before you toss that string, will it make a napkin ring? And that strange jar
Make a happy face It’s easy to put on a happy face, a funny face, or any kind of face you fancy with these soft,
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