Category: Projects For Kids
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Games in the Park – Wooden Block Stacking Game
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…
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Lantern Making
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…
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The Cyclospinnerator
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…
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Diyode CodeShield V1.1
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…
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Playing With The Laser Cutter
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″…
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Making a Teeter-totter
Dad – We went to Diyode again this week. We worked a little bit on the pedal car, and we made some shelves, and then Ethan decided to make a toy teeter-totter. Ethan – This is a video of how we made it.
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Project: Kid’s Kitchen Tower
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,…