Posted in general, paper, tagged art class, drawing, Lee-Kuo, lunchbox on 10/07/2010| Leave a Comment »
Here are the last 2 drawings Lee-Kuo drew in art class this semester. Normally he never shows us his school work but these are really good so I said I would put them on my blog.
great ideas from Lee-Kuo to complete this drawing
the topic was "LUNCHBOX" so he came all the way from space to his desk
Posted in general, paper, tagged art class, flowers, Lee-Kuo, paper on 07/07/2010| Leave a Comment »
Lee-Kuo came home one day from school and showed us this lovely montage. We thought it was a great piece of work for the subject of flowers.
Lee-Kuo's flower montage from the school art class
Posted in general, sand, wood, tagged children, frame, kids, painting, popsicle sticks, sand on 07/07/2010| Leave a Comment »
Another semester has ended and I thought I would share this little project with you. I began with the popsicle frame because this gave me the artwork size. Then I printed the children’s names and cut the paper to fit the frame. The children loved working with sand, but you must do this project outside. I collected all the sand which was on the table and used it for the outer frame of the picture. The students really enjoyed being outside and creating this simple project.
a simple but lovely project for students, and it's all natural
Posted in general, paper, tagged paper models, papercraft, R2-D2, Shunichi Makino, star wars, TIE-Fighter, TIE-Interceptor, Y-Wing on 29/06/2010| 1 Comment »
Lee-Kuo is now a teenager and we thought it would be a good age to watch the old classic Star Wars movies. He loved them and I really enjoyed watching them again, so we decided to look for the models I made about 10 years ago from Shunichi Makino and we found his web page. Lee-Kuo had so much enthusiasm he cut, glued and built these models early in the morning and evening. He is now building the X-Wing. Shunichi Makino website here
star wars papercraft designed by Shunichi Makino
R2-D2 from star wars and a great working paper model, it all moves
the TIE-Interceptor paper model
the TIE-Fighter paper model
the Y-Wing paper model
Posted in general, wood, tagged house, lollipop sticks, money box, popsicle sticks on 29/06/2010| 18 Comments »
I have made this popsicle money box with all my students and all of them were so overjoyed when they had finished. It really is a lovely thing and to make one yourself is a great achievement. The original can be bought as a kit in every stationary shop in Taiwan, but I bought packs of popsicle sticks and cut them myself for each student. Take a look at the original kit that Lee-Kuo made earlier on this blog, or have a look at the original kit from Big3 in Taiwan. Original kit here
the popsicle money box using self bought popsicle sticks
a group of students with their newly completed popsicle money box
Posted in general, paper, wool, tagged alphabet, drawing, Lee-Kuo, patterns, weaving on 29/06/2010| Leave a Comment »
As Lee-Kuo was sitting in his classroom, the student next to him asked if he was bored, because Lee had just drawn the whole alphabet on a test sheet. These are amazing creations drawn with great skill and care. It is one single thread that creates each letter, take a look at the letter B which Lee made one evening. He never stops making his parents proud of him, fantastic Lee-Kuo.
lovely drawings of weaving patterns from Lee-Kuo
lower case letters
amazing alphabet weaving patterns drawn on the back of a test sheet
close-up of the marvelous drawing skill and idea
a different version using 3 pins and his woven letter B
Posted in general, tagged Head over Heels, HOH, isometric game, Mac OSX, maps, Retrospec, screenshots, Sinclair, Spectrum on 16/06/2010| 4 Comments »
A long time ago when I was a teenager, I played with my Sinclair Spectrum. The games were lots of fun and it was so easy to program your own music and scrolling games. Head over heels is a classic isometric game and this is a magnificent, beautifully rendered version ported for the mac by RETROSPEC. The graphics are simply superb and the music never gets boring. What you will find here are hundreds of screenshots sewn together to create the maps for each level. I did this for my son who was very small at the time and so now he decided he would like others to benefit from having the maps.
BLACKTOOTH click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
MOONBASE HQ click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
MOONBASE 1 click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
MOONBASE 2 click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
DUNGEONS click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
SAFARI click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
EGYPTUS click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
BOOKWORLD click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
FREEDOM click on the picture to open the map, please wait, it is really big!!!!!
Posted in general, paper, tagged cube maze, Lee-Kuo, papercraft on 02/03/2010| Leave a Comment »
This beautiful maze was completely designed by Lee-Kuo. He began with a few sketches on graph paper and then decided to use a 20 mm cube grid system with 5 mm thick walls. He drew the maze on 4 separate floors until he had a great pathway to the end. After he had finished the drawings he wanted to make it with matchsticks, we glued about 500 together and decided it would take to long, so I drew everything in Illustrator and printed it onto 120g paper. The result is a wonderfully strong cube maze which gives people hours of fun trying to get the ball through the maze. I am now working on an animated solution which will be on my YouTube channel when finished.
the sides and top of the cube, 5 mm thick
the base with 2 sides glued on
1st floor glued into place
2nd floor glued into place
3rd floor glued into place
the completed cube maze, well done Lee-Kuo
Posted in general, wood, tagged companion cube, lamp, LED, popsicle sticks on 21/02/2010| Leave a Comment »
I made this lovely cube after I had finished my matchstick cube. It uses the same battery and LED set-up as my paper lamps. There is tracing paper inside the cube to give a diffused glow. It’s a very simple and easy to make craft using the 5.5 cm sticks. Download the instructions with template from the downloads page, have fun.
a very simple popsicle companion cube
Posted in general, paper, tagged 21.5" iMac, Apple Macintosh, cardboard, keyboard on 08/02/2010| Leave a Comment »
This is the keyboard for the iMac which I made for a student drama. You can find the iMac elsewhere on my blog and download a pdf to make it yourself. The keyboard was very easy to construct but took a long time cutting and gluing all the keys. Download the pdf and start making your iMac with keyboard today.
print the ribs and edges and cut them
glue the bottom onto the edges and ribs, this gives it strength
showing the underside
trim the underside
glue the topside to the frame
trim the topside
spray with silver paint
glue on the keys
the completed cardboard keyboard
DIY family 