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Make Your Own Halloween Trick or Treat Basket

Design your own trick or treat basket using decoupage to decorate

Do-It-Yourself Handmade Halloween Costumes

These costumes are all handmade and make a perfect Halloween project

Carving Pumpkins with Cookie Cutters

Make perfect pumpkins this Halloween using cookie cutters to carve

Toys R Us Coupons and Sales

Toys R Us coupons, sales, and discounts are right around the corner. Check here for the latest news on deals from Toys R Us.

Skate Ramp Building Tips from Jeff King Host of Built To Shred

Jeff King of Built to Shred shares his ramp building tips. Best tools, materials and safety features

Sounds of the Season with BOSEbuild

What’s Christmas without Christmas music? There is no other season that is so closely associated with songs and music than Christmastime.

A Custom Built Playground for Kids in Need

GMC and MOCA Handcrafted recently teamed up to build and donate a brand new custom play structure for Childhaven in Seattle, and we are excited to share the news.

BOSEbuild Brings the Party

It’s been a joy to watch our son explore new sounds with his BOSEbuild speaker.

Discover New Lights and Sounds with the BOSEbuild Speaker Cube

The BOSEbuild speaker cube is a fully-customizable bluetooth speaker, that you and your children build and can enjoy for years.

Get Everyone Organized with this Back-To-School DIY Calendar

As kids head back to school, getting ahead of the curve on schedules for everyone in your family is key to making the transition easy on everyone. There’s nothing worse than realizing you’ve missed a practice or school meeting before fall has even begun. We’ve all seen versions of a […]

DIY and the Single Parent: Teach Them Well

It’s not easy, as a single parent, between working, kid activities, parenting, and basic household management to find the time to tackle projects around my new house as I’d like. My days off, aside from never really being “days off”, are often filled with catching up on all the things […]

VIDEO: Build a Backyard Obstacle Course With Pool Noodles

If your house is anything like mine, the combination of the heat and the long summer days is taking a toll on pretty much everyone. A recent trip to my uncle’s farm left me with a giant box of pool noodles I didn’t have a need for, but now I […]

Pokemon GO a No-Go?

The latest craze for smart mobile technology gaming is without a doubt the augmented reality game Pokemon Go, from Nintendo. Despite creating a giant surge in Nintendo’s stock and becoming a cultural phenomenon overnight, you may want to wait before you download the app and hand over your device to […]

IKEA Recall: What to Know

Yesterday IKEA announced a voluntary recall of over 29 million MALM dresser units due to the tip-over dangers specifically related to small children. Reports vary, but as many as 14 children have died since 1989 when the un-anchored units toppled forward on a child. The recall affects children’s chests and […]

HOW TO: Build a Sensory Table for $30

As a special needs parent, I had a crash course in learning all about sensory processing issues for tiny humans. For whatever reasons may exist, for some kids the literal roughness and loudness of the world is too much for their little bodies and minds to handle. One of the […]

Make Your Own Paintable Lego Minifig

Our friend Lizz over at More Than Thursdays is a prolific DIYer with an awesome edge. She and her husband, Jamie, not only have built their own teardrop trailer, but they manage to throw the best themed parties for their son, Max (as well as make an impeccable string of Halloween […]

Spend Father’s Day at Chuck E. Cheese’s

Spend a few fun hours with your family at Chuck E. Cheese’s, where you know everyone will have an amazing time.

Teach Your Kids to Look For The Helpers

As a DIYer and parent, I’m pretty adamant about my children learning how to be helpers — for themselves with age-appropriate tasks, for their friends and playmates at school or at social events, and for me with everything from chores to being that extra set of hands to pass a […]

DIY and the Single Parent

I am an avid DIY home improver. I believe there is nothing you can’t figure out with the power of perseverance and the magic of Google behind you. The pride that overcomes me when I see the finished version of an idea that gestated within my brain can only be […]

VIDEO: Build A DIY Racetrack (Tutorial)

This isn’t any ordinary racetrack. Using items you’re likely to have just laying around the house, following this tutorial from Bamzee R Toys will result in an awesome activity not only when it’s complete, but throughout the whole building process. Aside from the recycling from materials we all have in our […]

8 Tips on How To Safely DIY while Pregnant

Since this isn’t my first time being pregnant amid approximately a million home improvement projects, nor is it the first time that being pregnant necessitated some of those projects, I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve learned so that I can DIY while also building a little person. […]