Toilet Paper Rolls and Other Cardboard Tubes
You can make just about anything from toilet paper rolls or tubes – get fun activities for younger children, older children and adults. Read more ›
You can make just about anything from toilet paper rolls or tubes – get fun activities for younger children, older children and adults. Read more ›
Making toys from trash. Building homes from trash. Weaving art from trash. Next-level creative reuse in Egypt and Japan. These are the topics of my five favorite TED Talks about creative reuse. Read more ›
Global demand for disposable chopsticks has been increasing so remember to carry your own, and get ideas on creatively reusing your old disposable ones. Read more ›
My two hobbies – creative reuse of trash and playing taiko – actually have a lot in common. Learn how creative reuse is part of taiko. Read more ›
This traditional Japanese decoration is made around the new year for good luck. Read more ›
At Obon, we remember our ancestors. This year, we’ll do it on a loom, writing messages and stories on strips of fabric. Read more ›
At the Obon festival at Ekoji Buddhist Temple, people can use a stamp to decorate a tenugui, or cloth hand towel, and then dance with it at the community dance. Read more ›
After nine months of intense learning, we three apprentices survive an intense weekend of evaluations and building performance stages – but also yummy ramen and many laughs. Read more ›
Quilted from Japanese fabrics for two fellow Taiko players who are leaving our performance group Read more ›
I am taking beginning Taiko classes and it is a dream come true! Read more ›