2 posts tagged “balance beam”
For Christmas this year, I made the kids wooden balance beams. I was inspired by the balance beam I saw here. It wasn't too hard, and it gave me an excuse to learn to use our router. Here's how they turned out.
And here are my daughters enjoying them:
And just for giggles, here's a cute video of my youngest playing wii:
Hope you had a wonderful holiday!
I have been doing a lot of crafting lately. I'll have to get some pictures online to show what I've done lately (cute little mini pinatas, and some super-easy fleece ballet slippers). But here are things I have in mind for Christmas. As an alternative to a gingerbread house:
It's based on the cardboard template here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/07/diy_minicomic_stand.html
I hope to make a version big enough for the girls to play with their barbies in it. They've agreed to help me decorate it for Christmas (the girls, not the barbies, LOL).
For gifts, I'm thinking of making three of these for the kids:
I like that they're small enough to be able to put away, they can be played with in a bunch of different ways either all together or separately, and they should be pretty easy to make. And I get to go hide in the workshop to get them done.
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