by Jeffrey Myers | Apr 9, 2017 | Engineering Projects, Outdoors, Spring, Summer, Technology & Engineering
If you’re looking for a kids’ gardening project this summer, try building a bean teepee. This natural play tent is a fun addition to the backyard and a perfect hideout for little explorers. Last summer was our first as home owners, and we were as...
by Jeffrey Myers | Apr 2, 2016 | DIY Toys, Engineering Projects, Wooden Toys
Looking for a toy project that a kid can make, then give to a sibling or a friend as gift? Or the first woodworking project to make with dad? Here is our idea on how to make a simple wooden toy boat from a scrap of wood. This post contains Amazon affiliate links for...
by Jeffrey Myers | Jun 16, 2015 | Autumn, Babies & Toddlers
Budster and I have both been congratulating ourselves on our recent acquisitions. I have a new car, and he has a new skill – cranking! Unfortunately, Daddy’s “new” car has crank-operated windows, and Budster’s enthusiasm for slyly...
by Jeffrey Myers | Feb 18, 2015 | Babies & Toddlers, Mostly Personal
When I was a kid, my sister was always after me to play dolls with her. “Sure, I will just grab my BB gun,” I would say. She even bought me a Ken doll as a birthday gift one year, in an attempt to rope me in – at an age when news of it would have...
by Jeffrey Myers | Feb 4, 2015 | Lego, Technology & Engineering
We hear a lot about cars around our place… we draw them, we build them, we read about them, and we trip over them! Vehicles have been Budster’s immutable passion for about a year, and we begin to wonder if he will ever tire of them. He delights that there...
by Jeffrey Myers | Jan 26, 2015 | DIY Toys, Wooden Toys
Trains are a going concern around our house, of late. A complicated network of wooden tracks crisscrosses our living room, so that safe navigation from one end to the other looks something like a game of hopscotch. Ensconced in the centre of this empire is a happy...
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