Articles in Arts & Crafts
Hi-Tec Art has developed a way to use LEDs in your own art, without having to use a soldering iron. Just take the LED and stick it anywhere on their rubber mat and the LEDS will light up! You can create your own art, signs, pictures, maps, logos, and even use it to decorate clothing. There are even chess and checker games with LEDs fixed inside each piece so that they each light up. But one of Hi-Tec Art’s most coolest products is the Cube, …
Looking for a fun a creative project to do with your kids, especially if you happen to have a couple of useless or dead gadgets laying around your home. “62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer” by Randy Sarafan. The book features 62 innovative, unique and fun projects to make with everything from an old computer monitor to digital cameras, cell phones, CDs, hard drives and iPods. I’m sure you have a couple of these things laying around…There are also fashion focused projects to …
We have all tasted or eaten Play Doh at one time in our lives and don’t go denying it! So it was only a matter of time before they actually made it edible for real. Yummy Dough can be molded into designs, baked and then eaten.Yummy Dough is actually a multi-purpose toy! That combines two favorite childhood activities: creating designs with modeling dough and baking. Yummy Dough contains only food materials such as sugar,
The Kid Tough Doodler Light Sketcher from Fisher Price lets kid be creative by drawing with light! The very durable sketcher comes with a light pen for drawing, writing, and tracking. The drawings magically appear on the Sketcher and within 45 seconds, they’ll magically fade away. 5 light-transfer stencils with 25 pictures to copy come bundled with the system. Plus, the sketcher is super tough, and the whole body, including the screen, is durable enough to withstand tumbles. The Kid Tough Doodler Light Sketcher from …
Star Wars Play-Doh isn’t just any set of Play-Doh, it contains everything you need to mold your own intergalactic friends and shapes. The package comes with a special R-D2 that comes with everything you need to make lightsabers, jets that shoot Play-Doh out his sides, and stamps on his feet to make C-3PO, Ahsoka, Anakin Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The R2-D2 Star Wars playset comes with a total of six tools, three 2 oz cans of Play-Doh and it retails for $19.99.
If you ask us, Lego sets are works of art in their own right. So what more appropriate inspiration for a Lego Set than the Guggenheim Museum? The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is one of the most famous buildings in the world because of its unique architectural design that was very much ahead of its time. The Guggenheim Museum Lego Set stands at about 4 inches, but unfortunately it doesn’t look like it’s meant to have little Lego people inside of it.
Not necessarily very techie but kids and adults love Legos and this newest addition to the brick family is especially geared toward the girls. The Lego Pink Brick Box Large features tons of hard to find pink LEGO pieces, a pony, and parts to make a home or stable for your pet LEGO horse. There are 402 pieces in all that not only feature pink colors but also some blue’s and yellow’s too. The LEGO Large Pink Brick Box retails for $24.95 at Amazon.
Moxie Girls are all about girls who are full of energy, self-confidence and expressing their creativity! We’re especially fond of their Art-titude Remote Control Car, which isn’t just a fun way to get Moxie Girlz dolls around town, it’s also been designed with black and white graphics for girls to color on and bring to life with their own creativity. And if girls ever get tired of their creation, like with other Moxie Girls products, they can easily clean it off and start again. The …
Looking to make a quick and easy collage? Shape Collage Online lets you generate collages in several different shapes. You can put together a heart, moon, circle, square, star, butterfly, paw, or cat shaped collage of your choice, using the images of your choice. All you have to do is include the urls of webpages or photos that you would like built in to the collage. The service is totally free to use. But if you’re looking for a more advanced way to build collages, …
The 3D Drawing pad takes drawing and sketching to a whole new dimension. The pad comes bundled with 3D glasses that will transform your doodles into 3D images. Each page of the pad has a special stereographic background and 50 sheets are included. The pad can be used as a great fun tool for kids to learn about perspective. The 3D Drawing Pad retails for just $7.99.

