Whether you call it slime, flubber, oobleck, goo, goop, gak, gunk, ooze, putty, or play dough, we are talking about gooey, homemade polymers that can provide both hours of fun and an introduction to chemistry.
Tie-dye is a technique for dying fabric using folds and rubber bands to create patterns by hiding some of the fabric from the dye.
Dharma Trading sells textile craft supplies, and offers several pages of instruction on how to use reactive fiber dyes...
This set of fifteen videos from tie-die artist Alvaro Fernandez may be just what you need to get started.
Paula Burch's All About Hand Dyeing is my tie-dye pick of the day.
Tie-dyeing with Rit is a quicker process than using fiber reactive dye for several reasons, not the least of which is that the stuff is available at most grocery stores.
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This week's topic bundles two holidays into one column, as I review craft sites looking for the best Christmas (December 25) and Hanukkah (December 25 - January 2) crafts. For those wanting to learn a little about these holidays, I like the one-page artic
With cooler, shorter fall days, now is the perfect time to gather round the kitchen table with construction paper, glue, paint and scissors to make some Thanksgiving crafts. I could never design any of these clever craft projects myself, but I do know whe
Whether you are in charge of a whole classroom, an entire Brownie troop, or just one child, you are sure to find the perfect Valentine's Day activity at today's crop of websites. Although some of these projects will require a trip to the craft store, ma
For indoor fun on winter days, here are thousands of craft ideas tested by parents around the world. I could never come up with ideas like these on my own, so I enjoyed finding these projects with detailed supply lists and illustrated instructions.
More than 2,000 years ago, the Chinese were the first to use fiber from hemp and the inner bark of the mulberry tree to make paper. Today paper is of our most important industrial products. In the United States, we each use (on average) 660 pounds of pape
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