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Create a string figure Jacob's Ladder

How to create a string figure Jacob's Ladder

Who would have thought String Figure Art & hard rock would mix? Our Italian instructor ...

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Build a 2/5th scale tank

How to build a 2/5th scale tank

Forever a WonderHowTo favorite. Learn how to build any type of 2/5th (40%) scale fully functional tank.

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Build a water rocket

How to build a water rocket

Make a bottle rocket that can shoot over two hundred feet! Making an extremely powerful water bottle rocket is easy, and only ...

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Recycle an old light bulb into a ship in a bottle

How to recycle an old light bulb into a ship in a bottle

Try this impossible bottle puzzle. You gotta hand it to Metacafe's ...

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Make a LEGO toilet

How to make a LEGO toilet

If you're into those building block toys called Legos, for pleasure or for making extravagant and elaborate brickfilms, then you ...

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How to build a tripod tepee swing set

Build a tripod tepee swing set

Put together a metal swing set for under $20.

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How to do a one should hooping hula hoop move

Do a one should hooping hula hoop move

Hooping isn't just for the hips; with the right skills any part of your body that can create a circular rotation can get in on the hula hoop ...more

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How to do a vertical step through on the hula hoop

Do a vertical step through on the hula hoop

Trying to step through a rotating hula hoop without getting tangled in your own arms and legs, but you too can learn the vertical step ...more

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How to do an across the back hula hoop roll

Do an across the back hula hoop roll

This is a tutorial for how to do an Across the Back Roll with a Hoop.

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How to do the helicopter move on the hula hoop

Do the helicopter move on the hula hoop

The helicopter move is more of a trick than tricky; while this hula hoop move gives the appearance of a rapid spin, the effect is created by ...more

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How to hula hoop with one leg

Hula hoop with one leg

If you can rotate a hula hoop around your knees, with a little practice and balance, you can spin it around one leg. Safire, expert hula ...more

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How to spin a hula hoop around the chest

Spin a hula hoop around the chest

Chest hooping is no more complicated than spinning at the waist, and has a great variety of movement possibilities because of the variable ...more

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How to walk while hula hooping

Walk while hula hooping

This is a little tutorial about walking while hooping. She emphasizes going front/back, front/back or side/side, side/side a lot. Soon you ...more

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How to do hula hoop moves with multiple hoops

Do hula hoop moves with multiple hoops

When one hoop just isn't enough, multi-hoop moves are the only way to cure hula hoop boredom. Spinning four rings around your body is no ...more

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How to duck in and drop onto a hula hoop

Duck in and drop onto a hula hoop

The duck in and drop on move is a fluid tick to get a hula hoop from the hand to the body without stopping and ruining the rotation of the ...more

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How to hula hoop using the four point method

Hula hoop using the four point method

This is just one of many ways of shoulder hooping. A side to side motion can lift the hula hoop up and down, but lifting the chest up to ...more

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How to jump through a spinning hula hoop

Jump through a spinning hula hoop

Jumping through a hoop isn't just a trick for pyromaniacs and lions; it makes for a great hula hoop trick too. Safire, expert hula hoop ...more

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How to raise a hula hoop from the knees to the waist

Raise a hula hoop from the knees to the waist

Getting a hula hoop to move a up and down is as easy as a shake of the ...more

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How to raise a hula hoop from waist to neck without hands

Raise a hula hoop from waist to neck without hands

Hula hoops are not static, but that doesn't mean they're easy to move ...more

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How to shimmy a hula hoop up to the neck from the waist

Shimmy a hula hoop up to the neck from the waist

This penguin like move utilizes the movement of the arms to lift the ...more

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How to spin a hula hoop around the knees

Spin a hula hoop around the knees

With the right skills, a hula hoop can be spun at the knees so the spinner can walk around freely. Safire, expert hula hoop dancer, walks ...more

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How to switch hands from outside to inside on a hula hoop

Switch hands from outside to inside on a hula hoop

This outside to inside switch or the surface switch is a building ...more

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How to add headlights and a horn to a Power Wheels vehicle

Add headlights and a horn to a Power Wheels vehicle

So, your children have the same old boring Fisher-Price Power Wheels ...more

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How to assemble a Power Wheels Escalade

Assemble a Power Wheels Escalade

This video demonstrates how to set and unset speed lock in Power wheels Escalade. You can change the speed from 2.5 to 5 MPH.

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How to break in hard stilt springs on bocking velocity stilts

Break in hard stilt springs on bocking velocity stilts

Bocking is an extreme sport using velocity stilts, allowing the wearer ...more

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Make-It-Yourself Panda Bread

Perfect Pandas was kind enough to post link to an English translation of a Japanese Panda Bread How-To (made with green tea and chocolate dough). In the spirit of bento, very, very cute.... Previously ...

Fire + Gravity + Corrosive Liquids = Explosive Rube Goldberg Fun

They Way Things Go is a Rube Goldberg inspired art film by Peter Fischli and David Weiss (1987). The 30 minute film documents an assembly line of action and reaction. Wikipedia: "The machine is ...

DIY LED Carpet-Light

For the craftsters & LED lovers, great idea by Johanna Hyrkas. The LED carpet-light: a simple, yet novel, DIY project. A single strand of LEDs is encased in a knit tube; the knit tube is wound ...

Make Fuel With Mountain Dew

Mountain Dew is the answer. Inventor Paul Patone has devised a mechanism that converts soda into actual usable fuel. "It’s called the Geet Sytstem. Basically, it’s a fuel booster system that can ...

No Lightsaber Required: DIY Jar Jar Binks Salad

Yum, geekdom fun. A Jar Jar salad. Wonderfully silly How-To from Only Knives: "A side dish from the Dark Side: Sculpt Jar Jar Binks out of a root vegetable." You'll need some serious ...

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