For parents and educators
Crafts
- 5-Pointed Star in One Snip
- Betsy Ross, will show you how she took a piece of paper, folded it , and with a single cut of her scissors, produced a symmetrical five-pointed star.
- Apple Cinnamon Dough
- This cinnamon dough makes wonderful-smelling ornaments and gifts.
- Aunt Annie's Crafts
- Aunt Annie's Crafts takes the craft how-to book one step further by putting it in the computer and taking advantage of the flexibility that the computer offers. Aunt Annie's Crafts are available as programs to run under Windows or as Web Books for use with most Web browsers.
- Beginner's Guide to Model Rockets
- Developed by NASA, this site explains rocket design, flight characteristics, and aerodynamics. Various physics principles are explained through text and animation. The highlight of the site is the "Rocketmodeler" Java applet, which allows kids to create and fly virtual rockets.
- BNAPS Stamp Collecting for Kids
- This useful site provides straightforward stamp-collecting information, including advice and information on starting a collection, stamp condition types, U.S. and foreign stamps, and a glossary. Youngsters can also submit questions, answer a quiz, and explore other links.
- Conjuror - Free Magic Tricks
- Learn the tricks of the trade for 15 different magic tricks, including the vanishing knot, mysterious coin balance, magnetic knife illusion, and others. The Card Trick Central link takes aspiring magicians to a myriad of card activities.
- Crafts for Kids
- Select a craft by subject. Also contains related sites.
- Download-a-Dinosaur
- Easy-to-make paper dinosaurs designs that you print from this site, cut, fold, and paste.
- Hands on Crafts
- An online kids' craft "studio" to open the world of NC crafts to children and families in an interactive, fun, and engaging way.
- Jline Paper Airplanes
- Instructions for creating numerous paper airplanes (both indoor and outdoor versions) are found here. Each illustrated design is accompanied by clearly written folding directions.
- Kid's Domain Craft Exchange
- Almost 300 projects and ideas shared by almost 250 people! This is a by-month-featured index of all the projects and tips in the Craft Exchange. You can browse through these index pages or go to the Complete Craft Exchange Index to do searches by topic, difficulty level, title, contributor name, etc. (But, boy, is it long!)
- Look, Learn, and Do
- Welcome to the Look, Learn, and Do website; a place where kids can read great books, learn interesting history and facts, and build fun projects with easy to follow, illustrated plans. Our goal is to provide a clean, easy-to-use site for the whole family that will both entertain and teach.
- Making friends and Other Crafts for Kids
- At Making Friends you'll find lots of creative activities for kids ages 2 through 12. Major sections include paper dolls, beads, paper crafts, jewelry making, dress up, friendship bracelets, yucky stuff, tie die, learning crafts, Halloween crafts, Thanksgiving crafts, and Christmas crafts. Other categories can be browsed.
- Mothers Home
- Many treasures in every room for various crafting activities.
- Rainy Day Resource Page
- Arts and crafts recipes for children and caregivers, including : Playdough | Paper Airplanes | Bubbles | Finger Paint | Silly Putty | Oobleck | Rice Collage | Pinecone Bird feeders | Bakeable "Salt Clay" | Zoo Coloring Book Pictures (Print & Color).
- Tammy Yee's Origami Page
- For anyone interested in learning paper folding, this site includes directions for more than 30 origami projects, grouped under such categories as nature, holidays, and multicultural. Each design includes a difficulty gauge, explicit instructions, and a print option.
- Tim's Planes
- I have been designing my own paper
aeroplanes for about 6 years now, and have come up with quite a few decent
designs. So now I have decided to go public and show them to the world.
Last Updated: 12/26/06