Category: Projects For Kids

  • Games in the Park – Wooden Block Stacking Game

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    Mark Zander
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    As a first in what is hopefully a series of “Giant Board Games to Play in the Park”, here is my take on that well known wooden-block-stacking-game. I got all my inspiration from this Instructables Post. Materials Used : 6 – 8′ x 2″ x 4″ SPF (your standard 2×4) 1 can of MinWax Paste…

  • Lantern Making

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    Mark Zander
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    I have been going to the Kensington Market Winter Solstice off and on for a very long time. It’s always a fun evening in the dark with hundreds of other people and all those Lanterns! This year we were finally able to make it to the Lantern making workshop. Here is my first attempt. Not…

  • The Cyclospinnerator

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    Simon Clark
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    So, it was time to hack together something fun a few weeks back. We wanted to build something for kids, something we could take around to events that would engage the little people. We got an old broken stationary bike off of freecycle, took it to bits, removed all that was unnecessary, moved the gears…

  • Diyode CodeShield V1.1

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    Simon Clark
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    Last weekend was SoOnCon, Southern Ontario’s annual hackerspace / makerspace / community workshop. This years was hosted by Diyode, and as is tradition, we were tasked with coming up with an interesting badge. We took this as an opportunity to throw our resources into the codeshield, get some proper circuit boards made, and get a…

  • Playing With The Laser Cutter

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    Alex Storey
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    So I tried out my first serious project with the laser cutter after several trial runs to figure out how it works. I downloaded the Spiderasaur schematics from Thingiverse ’cause I thought it looked kind of cool. Ultimately I want to do one in Acrylic but for a start I just did one in 1/8″…

  • Simple Kid’s Drawing Table

    Simple Kid’s Drawing Table

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    Simon Clark
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    Bashed this table together quickly over the weekend for our youngest daughter. There’s nothing terribly groundbreaking here.  A simple plywood top, rounded and routered to make nice edges.  My wife, older daughter and I painted after the young one’s bedtime over the weekend, then some simple legs and a lot of varnish. The legs are…

  • Project: Kid’s Kitchen Tower

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    Simon Clark
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    By Simon ClarkI spent the weekend at Diyode creating a Kitchen Tower for our 16 month-old. Coraline loves helping in the kitchen, but has been falling off the kitchen chair a little too often. Our solution was this, a tower that she could climb into herself, and stand comfortably in while mixing ingredients, scrambling eggs,…