Bird's nest

This idea came home from school. I wish I had the exact recipe!

The nest is made of crushed shredded wheat and melted marshmallows. The eggs are candy covered chocolate eggs. And the Peep is a terrific finishing touch!

Angry Chicken has a yummy looking recipe for making chocolate nests!

Colour palette generator

Awesome colour palette generator!

Palette Generator: Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/colors.php

Fairy wings

via Neatorama

DIY Fairy Wings HOW-TO and BONUS Costume Essential via Instructables.com

Creating your own computer fonts

via Geekdad: Helping GeekKids Create Their Own Fonts

Finger traps

via Geekdad

Instructions for how to make a finger trap over at Instructables.com

10 ways to entertain young children for $1 or less (without the TV)

10 ways to entertain young children for $1 or less (without the TV) via ParentHacks.

I must remember to try:

• Rubber band and pencil crazy bot
• Make a paper popper

DIY: Photograph to colouring sheet

Via GeekDad's post Make Custom Coloring Books with Photoshop a link to fototiller's post coloring pages from your photos - 3 easy photoshop steps.

Brilliant!

Pop-up reference

via Rainy-day Geekdad Project: Home-made Fold-out Books comes


Pocket Paper Engineer: HOWTO make paper popups

Treasure chest

A terrific idea for re-using baby-wipe boxes, by using them to create treasure chests, is posted over at GeekDad!

Rasterbator (giant homemade posters)

Software to quickly make giant homemade posters from your source image.

Rasterbator

(Found at MakeUseOf - via Neatorama.)

reference: origami

Joseph Wu
http://www.origami.as/

Eric Joisel
http://ericjoisel.com/Site/home.html

A primer on tie dying

Tie Dye: Chemical and Folding Magic over at GeekDad.

Custom Paper Toys

Build-em-yourself paper toys, all free to download at Custom Paper Toys.

Practical origami: snack cup

Over at No Snack Cup? No Problem at Geek Dad.

SF Movie Paper Craft Gallery

The SF Movie Paper Craft Gallery has brilliantly detailed patterns for building your very own sci fi spaceship models. Unfortunately, the instructions aren't in English.

via Jeff Milner

recipe: soap bubbles

http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/craftyrecipes/a/blhmbubbles.htm

Materials Needed:
1/2 cup dish soap
1 1/2 cups water
2 teaspoons sugar

Instructions:
Mix all 3 ingredients together. Don't stir or shake too much! :-) Store in a sealed container. Experiment with blowing bubbles using different items.
Tips from Mark: 1 cup warm water, 1/4 cup blue dishwashing liquid, and 1tsp. salt (If you have some glycerin at home add a teaspoon of it to make even better bubbles). Combine well, but do this gently. Use as you would any other bubbles



http://babyparenting.about.com/cs/activities/a/bubbles.htm
Best Bubble Solution
1 Cup Water
2 Tablespoons Light Karo syrup or 2 Tablespoons Glycerin
4 Tablespoons Dishwashing liquid

Mix together and have fun!

recipies: invsible ink

http://inthetrenchesofmotherhood.com/?p=99
This is a really simple one.
Squeeze some lemons or limes into a glass. This juice will be the ink.
Give them a small paintbrush or a Q-tip to use as writing implement.
Have them write the message on a sheet of white paper. When the “ink” dries it will be invisible.
To make the message reappear, hold the sheet of paper over a heat source. A hot water bottle, heating pad, in front of your wood burning stove, a heat register are some ideas.

recipe: Oobleck

Recipe found here: http://skiptomylou.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/oh-the-places-you-will-go/

If you quickly smack oobleck with your hand it immediately turns into a solid, instead of splashing or moving. If you slowly move oobleck it reacts like a liquid.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of cornstarch
• 1 cup water
• a few drops of food colouring (optional)
  

Instructions:

• mix ingredients together
• try it (hit it then pour it off a spoon) before adding more than 1 cup of water

Quick collages

An excellent idea found http://hereiam.typepad.com/astitchintime/2007/02/bits_and_pieces.html
via http://kiddley.com/2007/02/02/quick-collages/

This is an example of work that

Materials:

• old magazines
• scissors
• glue
• construction paper for background (optional)

Instructions:

• “They are so simple to do: Just hack up some old unwanted magazines (not the latest issue of Selvedge, or the most recent Boden catalogue, some things are just off-limits!), and re-construct!” - Sarah

Packing tape transfers

from http://www.quietfish.com/notebook/?p=586

Materials:

• clear packing tape
• magazine or photo with image
• spoon
• scissors
  

Instructions:

• http://www.quietfish.com/notebook/wp-content/packingtapescan.jpg