Make Something: Cookie
Decorate a cake, pie, or cookie. I spent my day with a migraine, staring at my desktop monitors, trying to unravel issues with a website I thought was nearly ready […]
Make Something: Words
Make something with words? Hardly seems fair, considering “words” is my theme for this year of making things, and words are my medium of choice all the time. But I’ll take […]
Make Something: Soap
Use a bar of soap to make something new. I’m going to bend the rules again. Rather than using soap to make something new, I’m going to use it to […]
Make Something: Visual Pun
I could probably do an entire year of visual puns … especially with some creative help from my children. We had so much fun brainstorming for today’s make something activity. […]
Make Something: Utensil
Create a new kind of utensil. Functional or not, document it in use. The utensil I created is not new in any way. It’s a pencil, and pencils have been […]
Make Something: Eraser
Make something with an eraser. How about a quick poem?
Make Something: Dyed
A full workday followed by a play-off baseball game did not leave the kind of time I would have liked to spend on today’s make something activity. The idea: create […]
Make Something: From an Alley
Noah Scalin sent me into an alley today. In my uptight Chicago suburb, this was not a dangerous mission. But I took two teenage boys with me anyway. Because they […]
Make Something: Back Story
Today’s make something assignment is unlike any thus far: Make up a name and write a back story for a stranger you see today. As a person who works from […]
Make Something: Shred
Work with shredded paper. So many possibilities. I have a paper shredder right here by my desk. I could have simply lifted a few strips from the box and woven […]
Make Something: For Ears
Make something inspired by and/or that fits on or around an ear. When I first read today’s prompt, my brain added “in.” Something to go “in” the ear. I thought […]
Make Something: Sidewalk Chalk
The make something project took me outside this afternoon. I dropped my butt to the cement and made a message on the driveway, with chalk. For the past eight days, […]
Make Something: Be Bold
Could you walk into a local shop or restaurant and ask the staff: “Hey, what would you let me make here?” This was today’s make something challenge. The Italian beef […]
Make Something: Nearby Rocks
“Work with the gravel, sand, or rocks available near your home.” Seems simple, right? I ventured out on to my little piece of property here in the western Chicago suburbs […]
Make Something: Shoes
For Day 72 in his book of “make something” ideas, Noah Scalin offers two options. I scoffed at the first and took the second. Option 1: Use all the shoes […]
Beth Nyland 