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ScrapKins a Hit at the Bay Area Maker Faire

Maker Faire artists. Image: ScrapKins, used with permission.

One of the booths my son and I went to at the recent Maker Faire in the Bay Area was ScrapKins. There, we were taught how to take a toilet paper tube and turn it into a monster. My son was quite creative with his, but it is practically NSFW, in an eight-year-old boy kind of way. So instead, I’m showing you what some of the other kids at the Faire put together.

Check out the ScrapKins website. They have all kinds of fun projects to do with materials found around the house, and they have a book, Scrap Kins Build-it Book, too!

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Jenny Bristol

Jenny Bristol is Editor-in-Chief of GeekMom and an Editor at GeekDad. She is a lifelong geek who spends her time learning, writing, facilitating the education of her two wickedly smart kids, losing herself in history, and mastering the art of traveling on a shoestring.

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