Have you been wanting to light up your origami? Then look no further than this fun LED Origami video tutorial by Adafruit’s Becky Stern and Risa Rose. They also have step-by-step lotus flower and frog instructions.

One note on lithium cell batteries: if you have young children, you may want to explore alternative power solutions. Button-like batteries are extremely dangerous if ingested. Read more at the New York Times.

Watch more origami and paper craft videos in the archives. 

via Laughing Squid.

We love artist Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, and as it turns out, so does Mythbuster Adam Savage. Watch Adam describe and build a Japanese-made Strandbeest Model Kit. These advanced building kits can be found on Amazon, Ebay, and MakerShed.

(Psst… you can also find one of the Strandbeest kit’s instructions pdf’d here in English.) 

From the New Yorker, watch a video of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests here.

via Jamie & Adam’s Tested.

DIY.org is a safe online community for kids who love to make and learn (and for parents or educators who want to stay in the loop). Young makers can do challenges, watch tutorials, share knowledge, and earn patches in all sorts of skills: beekeeper, baker, detective, fort builder, gardener, gamer, papercrafter, solar engineer, and so many more. 

For more information, read an interview, watch the DIY Anthem, and visit the site…

A pretty spectacular science experiment: how to make an Incredible Egg Geode. 

Your egg geode is formed through a process called sedimentation. The heated alum solution contains suspended particles of alum powder and as the solution cools, these particles of alum begin settling. When the alum particles settle towards the bottom of the beaker or glass, they begin crystallizing. With the alum-covered egg at the bottom, the alum particles from the solution begin attaching themselves to the egg. Covering your egg in alum powder beforehand gives the suspended alum particles a surface to which they can more readily attach themselves. The particles that settle onto the surface of the egg crystallize, and you will also see crystallization on the bottom and sides of the beaker or glass.

The very catchy Counting by Fives from Schoolhouse Rock!