This is Magpie Time, a new show dedicated to teaching arts and crafts to children in an accessible and entertaining manner by re-using found everyday objects in creative ways. Think responsible, green craftiness that engages kids in fun arts and craft projects that use things you have around the house rather than new products you have to buy.
This origami video demonstrates how to make origami claws that are great for Halloween props. It is very simple process that allows room for creativity. Children love to make these origami werewolf claws. Happy haunting.
Check out this great Valentine's Day craft idea from Crayola in this how to video. You can learn how to make a personalized 3-D heart pouch that is perfect for you or that special Valentine. You will need markers, crayons, school glue, colored pencils, scissors, colored paper, yarn or chenille stems and beads. With this easy to follow tutorial yu and your child can make this adorable 3-D heart pouch for Valentine's day.
This photo retouching Photoshop tutorial is not cleaning up blemishes, but modifying the overall look of a photo. Bert's example in this episode takes a snow covered window eave and adds some children and their reflections to the inside along with falling snow on the outside. Change a photo to any scene or look you need with this Photoshop tutorial.
Breastfeeding is very beneficial for both the mother and child. If you're thinking about pumping your breast milk get tips on how to choose the right breast pump. Just watch this maternity how-to video for tips on milk pumps.
Skittles is an old European target sport that is very much like bowling. Discover how to make home made skittles with just a tennis ball, glue, empty water bottles, water, paint, and newspaper. Watch this kids activities how to video tutorial to get ideas for a great rainy day kids activity.
This fun family craft shows you how to make a beautiful flower arrangement with your kids. Paper flowers are a fun activity and great gift for grandma, mom or a little girl friend! Watch this how to video tutorials to learn about making tissue paper flowers with your children.
This video tutorial will show you how to make a wooden jigsaw puzzle, but not an ordinary one -- a postage stamp wooden jigsaw puzzle. This puzzle video will show you how to cut a postage stamp into ten poplar jigsaw puzzle pieces using the freehand continuous method.
Between "genuine danger" and "raving safety paranoia," there must be some sensible middle ground for dry ice.
This greeting card tutorial video will give you tips on how to make a greeting card that spins and shows various images in its little window. This is a take on the old view master toys that children used to play with. Your friends and family will definitely think this greeting card is awesome.
This is a fun activity that children can do. Parents Magazine and Better TV shows you how kids can make a beautiful Mother's Day Bouquet. You will need paper plates, scissors, paper clips, colored paper and colored pens.
A good soccer player must first learn the fundamentals of the game. The throw-in is a key skill every player must learn, and this demo will show you how to teach your kid to properly do a throw-in.
You want to spend quality time with your children but you want your afternoon to be fun and educational as well... Why not build a Rube Goldberg machine? A Rube Goldberg machine can be about anything so watch this video to get you started and bring your creativity with you.
Lye can cause chemical burns and the fear of getting burned prevents arts enthusiasts from making homemade soap. Watch this video to learn how to safely make lye solution so you can go ahead and unleash the creative child in you.
Don't toss that bleach bottle! With some paint and a little creativity, you and your child can make an adorable piggy bank that will dazzle the change right out of your pocket.
Sharps and flats that aren't in the key signature are called accidentals. All we want to teach about accidentals now is that a sharp preceding any note means that the child should play the black note on the right of that note. All we want to teach now about flats is that you should play the black note to the left of the note that the flat precedes.
Madoc teaches his dog Bowzer how to do a sudoku 4x4 puzzle. This adorable kids covers all of the basics rules of sudoku. This is a great way for children to learn the game.
This is a lesson on nunchaku self defense training & exercise. This is a martial art technique made famous to many American children by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Use two tin cans and wire to make a toy telephone for a child.
This is the effect you sometimes see on black and white posters of children with that slight touch of color. Learn how to create this effect in Adobe Photoshop
Learn about the ScaleBy Method to resize controls and their children. This can be useful in creating Forms that are resolution independent.
Heidi demonstrates how to make a great holiday gift with your childs handprint. Great fun for the kids and a great gift idea. Easy way to add a personal touch to your Christmas tree.
This tutorial tests the conductivity of metal. This is a simple science experiments that children will enjoy. They can test many objects in the home. This is play and learning combined.
For preschoolers a rhyming song. Also, your child will us their imagination.
Sleeping problems, eating problems, mood swings. Believe it or not, these can be signs a child is being pushed too hard to achieve goals. Dr. Kelly Stille, oodleboxTV's resident Parent Doctor, shows how to pull back when pushing overachievers.
Many craft projects for children center around kids making soap. Recipes often call for Soap Flakes and people wonder how that would work. Especially note how only a little water is needed to bind the Soap Flakes together into a dough-like ball.
Julia Child and guest demonstrate how to make a horseradish crusted grouper, in which the fish is battered on one side with breadcrumbs and fresh horseradish.
This video demonstrates a great rainy day project for children. It is a simple heart box made and decorated with foam shapes.
This video shows how to make an electromagnet and pick up some metal objects with it. A great project to do with your children. It will keep them away from the TV and even teach them something.
Did your child come home upset that they didn't get a gold star in class today? Well, now you can make them their own award. Watch and learn how to make a golden award badge. Be creative and make silver and bronze too! Perfect for teachers and parents.
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Home accidents. It's up to you to protect your family… your children… from accidents in the home. And there's one place that seems to get the most attention when dealing with safety concerns… The kitchen is one of the busiest, most accident-prone rooms in the house. Design a kitchen that will keep your family and guests safe.
The check just arrived; now what? Whether you sipped tap water all night or ordered a rare bottle of wine, we have an answer. Learn how to avoid over paying. Follow proper bill splitting etiquette with this how to video.
Google subsidiary Owlchemy Labs has cooked up an experimental ARCore mobile app that enables smartphone users to follow along with their VR friends as they play games in a head-mounted display.
Kitten Planet, a spin-off company that grew up in Samsung's C-Lab incubator, has developed a connected toothbrush that teaches and motivates children to brush their teeth better via augmented reality while tracking their performance.
After devoting a number of resources toward developing VR content to modernize the delivery of its news content in recent years, The New York Times is expanding its capabilities to include augmented reality as well, a mission outlined in a manifesto published on Thursday.
Everything that has a beginning has an end. This week marked the end of the long wait for the reveal of Magic Leap's first product and the beginning of the wait for more substantive details. Likewise, Google Tango will meet its end in March 2018, when ARCore will officially begin its public rollout.
Have you recently tried to type the words "it" or "is" on your iPhone only to have the Apple keyboard attempt to autocorrect them to "I.T." or "I.S.?" If so, you're not alone.
With summer just ahead, you, or your children, may be looking forward to some pool time or the water park. When planning water-based fun this year, keep a heads-up for microbes.
If you ever get asked to update your WhatsApp to your favorite color, don't. It's probably spam. According to Reddit user Yuexist, a new WhatsApp adware is going around disguised as an update.