Archive for the 'Crafts' Category
Saturday, November 24th, 2018
This is my first attempt at creating a proper scale model for 3D printing. In this case I am creating a weigh building in G-Scale. This has been a huge learning curve. I’ve since learned from some of the issues in the first model and so part 2 will improve on the techniques shown. The […]
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
I wanted to run some kind of cooking / baking activity with the Cub Scouts, however we meet at a community centre which does not have a kitchen. I therefore turned to some Microwave recipes. I tried a few different recipes and in the end decided on two cakes and one biscuit recipe. These are […]
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Thursday, October 31st, 2013
For the last few years we’ve been having a Halloween party for our kids to bring some friends around. We have the usual party games, but this year wanted to do some things a bit different. The first thing was that along with my children we decided to make Halloween a bit more fun for […]
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive lightweight computer designed for teaching programming to school children. At the moment it is available as a bare-bones processor board, but there are plans for a cased version in future. In the meantime there are some 3rd parties that have created or are in the process of creating cases. […]
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
This years giant Easter picture is above. For various reasons we left it until Easter Sunday to finish the Spring picture this year, but that gave an opportunity to include crafts from a Day Out we had during the Easter holiday. The Daffodils on this picture were created as part of the heritage crafts at […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
This years Christmas craft picture is a large Christmas Tree and Snowman. This giant craft picture is the first we’ve made since I mounted a dedicated craft board to the wall. The board is a piece of MDF that I got had the local B&Q to cut to size. The board is much better than […]
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
Make your own 3D snowflake using only plain paper, sellotape and staples. This is inspired by the Wiki How guide to making a 3D snowflake. My first attempt didn’t work out too well as the cuts were not uniform between the different points of the snow flake. So I created a template to make it […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Here is a recipe for easy home-made mince pies. It’s a slight variation on the traditional pies recipe with a sweeter pastry. This recipe is great for cooking with kids. You can make your own mincemeat, but it’s easier using a standard jar of good quality mincemeat. Makes 12 mince pies Ingredients Pastry 225g plain […]
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Create your own Easter Chicken using the following templates. These are easy for children to make, although an adult may need to help with cutting the shapes out first. There are two files. One is a Open Document Graphics file which can be edited using either LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org both of which are available for […]
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Monday, December 13th, 2010
This Winter’s craft picture is now complete. We change our picture each season so whilst it’s nice to include Christmas elements in the picture this picture needs to last beyond the rest of the house Christmas decorations. This year we went for a house silhouette with snow, a Christmas tree and a snowman created with […]
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