Kids Crafts with Maker Dad

Make your weekends more awesome with activities you and your kids can get their hands on. Join Make Magazine editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder — and his daughter Jane — for a class on cool, simple projects you can do with your kids.

In Kids Crafts with Maker Dad, you’ll get the blueprints you need to complete projects with the whole family. You’ll learn how to whip up a mixture that makes enormous bubbles, and how to get started with polymer clay — a medium you can use to create custom toys, shapes, and figurines. You’ll engage in a little trial and error learning by creating your own simple board and dice games. You’ll also learn the more advanced magic of constructing a Drawbot – a simple robot that can make abstract art all by itself.

This course will have even your most reluctant kid excited to get their hands dirty and experimenting, making, and creating, together.

• Polymer Clay: Mixing & Rolling
• Polymer Clay: Ice Cream Sandwich Necklace
• Other Polymer Clay Projects
• Homemade Soap: Mold Making
• Making Your Own Rubber Stamps
• Creating Puzzle Cubes
• Puzzle Cube: Finishing Touches
• The Antigravity Jar
• Making Mixie Sticks
• Crazy Card Magic Trick
• Making Minibots: Drawbot
• Making Minibots: Bristlebot
• Making the Friendstrument
• Connecting the Friendstrument
• Decorating Your Friendstrument
• Making the Balloon Camera
• Attaching the Balloon Camera to the Rig
• Making Giant Bubbles
• Making a Sled Kite