Kids making things: rock friends and more

This blog is about making things, fixing things and sharing knowledge.

I was thrilled to learn last week that that my youngest daughter made a new toy for herself: a “rock friend”. The rock friend’s name? You guessed it: “rockie”. She’s a girl rock friend :)

She was very proud of her accomplishment – and I was even more proud. She was even happy that she “didn’t even have to spend any money on the new toy”.

Since one rock friend is never enough she made several more and then recruited her real friend from across the street to make more together.

Without further ado, here are the rock friends (click them to see bigger images):

The whole rock family in back, animals in front.

Rock mom beside the TV and boom box

Rock dad standing beside his bed

One of the girls next to the computer

Rock kid standing beside trampoline

Rock kid standing next to his bed

Rock girl eating some food

A Car

To round out this post, here is an amazing video from Ted Talks about life lessons kids learn from tinkering and making things. It’s folks like Gever Tulley that remind me to take the kids under the car when I’m changing the oil or hand them the electric drill when their curious.

Enjoy.