When Polimind reached out to let us know about its new papercraft projects they’re raising funds for on Indiegogo, I knew I’d found some great rainy-day hands-on projects that my boys and I could do together.
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Adult and fandom coloring books piling up? Re-gift them with these simple projects.
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Right now, there’s an excellent science fiction story bundle called the Starward Bound StoryBundle going on. At the time I write this, there’s about two weeks left on the timer.
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‘Glowbots’ is origami without the stress-induced rage. Win!
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Act fast, as there are two sales on some great papercraft for your fantasy gaming table. Buy, print, cut, and glue… then play!
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Normally $7.75 (which isn’t a crazy amount to begin with), the Ultimate Dice Tower from Fat Dragon Games is 70% off for two days. Buy it, print it out on card stock, cut out the parts, and assemble. It’s a very cool dice tower.
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One of my favorite movie quotes is from Real Genius—Chris Knight, when asked about a gadget he built, states, “It’s yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibility.”
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As I’ve continued to search for new and inexpensive papercraft methods to make minis and terrain, I’ve discovered a number of websites and comrades-in-arms who also enjoy papercraft with their gaming, and I’d like to share some of these resources with you below — many of these folks are geek parents, so I’ve also asked a few of them for a little background on their hobbies and their kids.
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Today’s Stack Overflow is all about arts and crafts: coloring books, dot-to-dot books, and other fun activities. Over the past few months I’ve gotten a flood of coloring books, many of them designed for adults. If you’ve visited a bookstore or even an art supplies store lately, you’ve probably seen them: mandalas, cityscapes, animals, and […]
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Every five or six sessions, I like to do something different and special for my players. And three times this season, I’ve found myself relying on Fat Dragon Games.
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My son received David Hitch’s ‘Make It! Jet Plane’ for Christmas, and he loves it. It’s a great combination of storybook and papercraft.
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Like paper craft? Like ‘Transformers’? Well, you’re in luck! ‘Phase Bots’ combines both into a fun, geeky project that will thrill crafty G1 fans.
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‘The Cloud Dungeon’ just launched on Kickstarter today and promises a whole new way to play an all-ages RPG while bringing tons of creativity to everyone at the table.
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In many regions of Bavaria, Germany, it is customary for towns and villages to raise a “maypole” every five years on the First of May. It is a perfect day for a family outing to the next village in which a maypole is raised that particular year. This May 1st, however, it had been raining nonstop from morning ’til evening…
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The Cricut Explore and the Cricut Explore Air are the newest in Cricut’s line of devices for cutting things out.
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If you’ve never tried your hand at building a paper automaton, let me point you to a great Kickstarter project with two amazing designs. I’m having trouble deciding which one to back. The designer is Geoff Rayner, and his company, Bag of Badgers, LTD, has put together a great little Kickstarter that is offering up parents two great projects for a family night or two. The best part is that the projects require no glue… and everything you need to build them is included in the boxes.
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End the school year with colorful award ribbons with Spirograph centers. Give them away or to add to gifts!
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The holidays are my favorite time of year. I liked December as a kid, but as an adult…well, you can ask my husband: I am almost more excited about the Christmas holiday than the kids are.
Continue ReadingWith the help of PaperRollerCoasters.com you can build your own marble run tower out of paper.
Continue ReadingFold your own creatures with the Desktop Gremlins book!
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Planetary Resources is giving away observation time on a new space telescope through their Kickstarter campaign. Grab some before time runs out!
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Several GeekMoms used the facilities at the Foldable Me website to create personalized paper filgurines and you can judge how faithfully their likenesses have been captured. Also, get a discount code and enter the GeekMom raffle for a free Foldable Me custom figure.
Continue ReadingFoldify is a fun new app for the iPad that lets you create your own 3D paper toys by drawing on a flat template then printing it out and assembling it.
Continue ReadingOur good friend Anthony Herrera has done it again this year, putting out a whole new set of Star Wars papercraft cut-out snowflakes. The designs are all free, and downloadable from his site.
Continue ReadingI first saw Kinetic Creatures at Maker Faire San Mateo this year, and when I found out they were running a Kickstarter Campaign to start up production, I happily contributed. The Kinetic Creatures are wonderfully whimsical kits that meld papercraft …
Continue ReadingI recently wrote about David Landis’s new Kickstarter campaign, to fund his papercraft book Desktop Gremlins Vol. 1. He was kind enough to also share his experience getting a Kickstarter campaign off the ground, from a newbie’s perspective. Hopefully this …
Continue ReadingI wrote about David Landis’s Desktop Gremlins website in the past, linking to free, printable paper craft projects you can do at home. His website still has a long list of them, including Rippy, a Halloween themed craft, which is …
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Our friends at Desktop Gremlins, home of awesome papercrafts that require no knives or glue or tape, have created a brand new papercraft, just for GeekMom!
Continue ReadingI’ve got a mixture of things to share with you as I wrap up Titanic Week. The anniversary is still over a week away, but I wanted to provide some interesting stuff that parents and kids might find useful for …
Continue ReadingThere’s something about miniatures: model railway layouts, dollhouses, fairy gardens, minis for games like Warhammer or Dungeons & Dragons. Miniatures let us recreate realms of our own, places of fantasy that provide a refuge from the very real world around us. If you tend to lavish love on the littlest things, you’ll get a kick […]
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