Tuesday, 5 April 2016

171) Dancing Cornflour

Cornflour, water, food colouring, a speaker, clingfilm. Music by Earth.

170) Comparing Invisible Inks

Different kinds of paper, brushes, crystallising dish, iron sulphate, copper sulphate, ammonium chloride, test tubes, lemon juice, iodine solution, pipette, flter paper, potato starch.

169) A Placard for a Protest

Poster from Greenpeace. Sharpies. A child slightly disappointed that the protest we attended was the sitting and singing kind rather then the marching and shouting kind. Next time....

Sunday, 3 April 2016

168) A New Kind of Hand Soap

Wait! It's not what you think! Really.
Soap remnants and coffee grounds, mixed.
For washing and exfoliating hands.
After you....

167) A Water Experiment

Water from tap, water butt, and distilled. Flame, metal spoons. Testing for dissolved substance.

166) A Christmas Cake

Cherry and almond fruit cake, icing sugar, food colouring.

165) Mince Pies

Flour, margarine, water. Vegan mincemeat, made by a friend.

164) Bath Bombs

Bicarbonate of soda, citric acid, colouring, essential oil.

163) Frodo and Bilbo

Various fabric offcuts, felt, acrylic yarn, buttons. Bilbo's head is detachable.

162) Eye of Cthulhu buns

Self raising flour, baking powder, sugar, oil, water, vanilla essence, icing sugar, food colouring. For a friends birthday.

Saturday, 14 November 2015

161) Tie Dye Sheets


Tie dye kit (Tulip One Step), a cotton sheet, cling film, washing machine. Ready for a dressmaking project.

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

160) An Exploding Apple Crumble

Apples, flour, margarine, oats, sugar. Tasted great, but who's going to clean the oven?

159) A Barbie Dressing Table For A Best Friend's Birthday


Cardboard, matchboxes, paperclips, wrapping paper, cotton marerial, plastic mirror, glue gun, leds, copper wire, battery, button, cellotape, various buttons and sparkly things in the drawers.

158) Spore Prints From A Fungus Foray



From a variety of fungus found in the woods and identified by someone in the know.
Black and white card, fungus, upturned ice cream tubs and a greenhouse.

157) A Bag With A Lining


Made at a workshop led by a 12 year old home ed kid.
Outer, inner and interfacing materials, bag straps, zip, sewing machine, cotton thread, and 4 hours of concentration and patience.
No shouting in frustration involved from either party.

Monday, 10 August 2015

Sunday, 5 July 2015

153) An Animation


"Adventure on the Unfriendly Island" made at a MagiMation workshop at Norwich Puppet Theatre. Selected to be shown as part of the BBC Young Film Makers Festival 2015.

152) A Dress


Pillow case from a charity shop, zip, shirring elastic (first try at shirring), sewing machine.