Make Something: Orange
Work only with orange materials today. Try working on an orange surface for a real challenge. I enlisted my eight-year-old daughter’s help for this Friday evening creation. We hunted the […]
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Make Something: Nuts & Bolts
Make something with any nuts, bolts, screws, or nails you having lying around. In the past few weeks, my husband Jim has stoked the flames of his creativity in our […]
Make Something: Letter to Me
Write a letter to yourself at another time in your life. This prompt makes me think of the Brad Paisley song, “Letter to Me.” I may not be as articulate in […]
Make Something: Coffee
Today’s make something assignment was to create with coffee—whether beans, or grounds, or liquid. My theme is “words.” No further explanation is necessary.
Make Something: Piñata
After the papier-mache experiment earlier this month, my shoulders slumped when I saw today’s make something prompt: “Make a piñata and destroy it.” I simply could not face papier-mache again. Determined to stay […]
Make Something: Bubble Wrap
On this 89th day of my make something journey, I had to buy supplies. But my investment was just $1, and this was only the second time I’ve purchased materials […]
Make Something: Office Supplies
Creating today’s project was no work at all. The order: make something with office supplies. I opened a drawer and pulled out staples, a rubber band, a paper clip, and […]
Make Something: With a Candle
I learned a new trick from today’s make something activity. The idea was to make something using a candle. In his published prompt, Noah Scalin offered two ideas. One was […]
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 […]
Beth Nyland 