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How To: Create a star out of water, pepper, and soap

This is a kids science/ magic trick. Cool trick where you can make a star in water using pepper and soap. Try this at home and have some fun experimenting with the kids. :)

How To: Make a marble spinner

Four glass marbles can make this amazing physics toy. It's like a top, or dreidel.

How To: Make a clothespin star

You can use this star as art or as a giant coaster for a hot pot. Anybody have any other ideas for uses?

How To: Make glowing blacklight bubbles

Make a bubble solution out of highlighter markers that'll let you blow bubbles that glow under blacklight.

How To: Make a scale out of pencils and CDs

Make a toy scale out of wooden pencils and CDs.

How To: Make a kids telephone

Use two tin cans and wire to make a toy telephone for a child.

How To: Make silly putty for kids

Silly Putty! Putty that is silly! You can buy it from the shops but it is ever so easy to make your own homemade putty. Resident VJ scientist Mike the gorilla shows us his technique. Make silly putty for kids.

How To: Make slime with Borax and glue

Usually our 5-Minute Projects involve soldering and LED lights and other such electronic accoutrements, but this week we decided to skip the fancy stuff in favor of an old-school science project: making rheopectic slime from Borax and glue. This is a pretty safe experiment even for kids--just make sure to do it with parental supervision and keep the Borax, slime, and any fingers that have been touching the aforementioned items out of eyes, noses and mouths.

How To: Make green slime

This video shows you the easiest way to make the squishiest yuckiest slime in the world.

How To: Make a paper puppet in 90 seconds

How to make a simple paper puppet for kids to enjoy.

How To: Make a bling bling dog tag necklace with kids

Watch this video to learn how to make a bling bling dog tag necklace with crystal flatbacks. This is a great project to do with kids!

How To: Make a charm bracelet with kids

Watch this video to learn how to make a charm bracelet with kids. This is a great project!

How To: Make a funky rubber necklace with kids

This is a great project to do with kids. Learn how to make a funky rubber necklace.

How To: Make an elastic bracelet with kids

Watch this video to learn how to make beaded elastic bracelets. This is a great project to do with kids!

How To: Create a beaded keychain with kids

Watch this video to learn how to a fun project with kids - a beaded keychain!

How To: Make candles with kids

Make a candle with these awesome take-away craft kits. This is a great project for adults and kids. Watch this video to learn how!

How To: Make a sand painting

Sand isn't just for building castles by the beach or shoveling around the sandbox—you can use it to make beautiful, colorful artwork too!

How To: Make a milk carton birdhouse

Here's a great reason to drink your milk: When you've emptied the carton, you can make this simple house for your feathered friends

How To: Make a friendly foam porcupine

Ever wish you could cuddle up to a cute little baby porcupine without getting hurt? Well, now you can!

How To: Make clay animals

Bored with rolling out plain old snakes? Here's a fun way to make a whole menagerie of critters with clay and poster board.

How To: Make an optical illusion ring

It's jewelry, it's an illusion, it's your very own cool creation. Here's how to make a flower ring that will bloom before your eyes.

How To: Make tissue paper flowers

You can create a bouquet of these pretty blooms from the same stuff you wrap presents with. But the best part? No watering!

How To: Make a paper bag puppet

You can decorate a paper bag puppet any way you like, but there's one puppet that no one will have seen before—one that looks like you!

How To: Make a toy kaleidoscope

Make this imaginative toy with beads, a hot glue gun and some junk drawer items.

How To: Make floating bubbles with kids

Here's a fun science project that kids will love, Floating Bubbles! Make floating bubbles with kids.

How To: Make floating bubbles

This cool experiment shows how to make soap bubbles hover in the air over dried ice.

How To: Work with polymer clay

Learn how to mold, shape and work polymer clay for all your crafting needs. Be certain to protect your work place.

How To: Make slimy Silly Putty with glue and Borax

Here is the perfect recipe for that childhood fun gooey substance. It seems everyone tries but get this wrong? I have found the perfect proportions. So no more glue balls. This isn't slime. This video is my recipe for making a silly putt... More»y like substance. I am a chemist and it works perfectly. It is a polyvinyl acetate polymer. Metric measurements 25mL glue, 20mL water, 15mL Borax Solution No matter how many times I do this, I never get bored making it. It acts like snot but it isn't ...

How To: Make yarn crafts

In this video series, our expert will teach you how to make a variety of yarn crafts. Get easy to follow instructions for making a yarn doll, a yarn cross and a yarn pen.

How To: Make pipe cleaner action figures

In this series of crafts videos, our young comics and science fiction fan (and professional actor) Halley Joseph Eveland will talk you through the creation of pipe cleaner action figures. As you bend, twist and snip your colored pipe cleaners, watch these fun versions of your favorite Star Wars heroes take shape before your very eyes. And these are not simply stick figures, but artistic creations with muscles, capes, masks and of course light sabers.

How To: Make a toy boat and water mill

In this video series, our expert Katalin Toth will teach you how to do crafts with children. She will show you how to make a toy boat including how to paint the boat, glue the popsicle sticks, cu the popsicle sticks, and test the boat out in water. Katalin and her children will also teach you how to make a toy water mill including how to cut the popsicle sticks, how to add soil, and how to make a decorative star for the toy water mill.

How To: Make a toy parachute and airplane

n this video series, our expert Katalin Toth will show you how to make a couple of air toys for children.

How To: Make play dough

Kipkay shows you how to make play dough. You use two cups of flower, two cups of water, one cup of salt, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, and one tablespoon of cream of tartar. Stir over low heat until the dough clumps, knead the dough, separate the dough into four balls, and then add food coloring.

How To: Make a high speed spinner

Kipkay makes a tiny high speed spinner with just a paper clip. They can be different colors and you can also use large paper clips.

How To: Make clothespin crafts

Make clothespin crafts. Part 1 of 15 - How to Make clothespin crafts.

How To: Make a pipe cleaner crafts

Our expert will guide you with some basic tips for manipulating pipe cleaners; then watch him do several projects with step-by-step instructions. It’s an easy way to introduce your children to the world of arts and crafts, or maybe just share an afternoon of quality time together.