Do-It-Yourself

Carved Wooden Seals

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Wood Carvings: Pony

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DIY Moss Terrarium

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SF Zoo Fundraiser Jewelry

To support the San Francisco Zoo, the HipMonsters' sisters team, and a neighborhood friend decided to sell jewelry to raise ...

Making of Number Six and Number Seven

After finishing Number three, we wanted to make smaller and lighter walking robots. Leveraging what we had learned from building ...
DIY mandrake root

Making Mandrake Roots

Inspired by the character Professor Sprout (from Harry Potter) and this wonderful article, we set out to make our mandrake ...
Steampunk robot

Upgrades to Number 3

Since we discovered how to make Number 5 move, we decided to upgrade Number 3. We tried to preserve as ...
Colorful, wooden. necklaces

Color Splash Collection, Summer 2023

The Summer 2023 release of the Color Splash Collection is in! Made from wood and painted in acrylic paint, each ...

The Making of the Hand of Glory

Inspired by Harry Potter, we made our own Hand of Glory out of Foam-Mo and paint for Halloween. Please note, ...
Wooden toy cat and deer

Wooden Deer Sculpture

This is our wooden deer sculpture, made as a Christmas present. We only used wood from our yard to make ...
Kid-made Dog Robot Number Five

The Making of Number Five

Inspired by the Boston Dynamics robot videos, steampunk art, and Girl Genius, the HipMonster team set out to make their ...
Wooden Puzzle box

Puzzle Box: Push My Button

After building a number of dovetail puzzle boxes the HipMonsters sister team set out to make their own unique design ...
George the Mummy and HipMonsters.com project

The Making of George the Mummy

We wanted to give people a scare on Halloween and was inspired by a visit to Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum so ...

Wooden Toy – Alligator

We decided to make a special present for our teachers at school. One of the teachers really loved alligators, so ...

Potion Cabinet

 With all the potion-making we have been doing recently, we found that we needed a place to put our potion ...

The Making of Number Three

The Making of Number 3 We saw the need for a new robot for halloween, so we made one. This ...

Ladder Bookcase

How to Make a Ladder Bookcase This project is about how to build a ladder-like bookcase. This bookcase has less ...

DIY Pump Drill

The Hip Monster's sister team has created a DIY pump drill.  Pump drills are ancient tools used by many cultures ...

Sun-Moon-Earth Orrery

Getting started Need to track the moon phases for that perfect time to cast a spell? Worried about when you ...

Shape Shifting Toy Robots

When the sisters team discovered Transformer comics (Go WindBlade!) they wanted a whole city of Transformers to play with. While ...
wooden staff

Staff – Twisting Wave

When we go hiking, we sometimes pick up some good pieces of wood to make into staffs or other creations ...
Wooden Wand

Wand: Crimson Lava

Every wand we craft has unique mythos and a special spell. This wand is called the Crimson Lava. Mythos The ...