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A skill that involves practical arts is called a craft . Within the decorative arts, the term is used to describe artistic practices with the use of metal work, pottery, wood turning, weaving, glass blowing, wood working and glass art . The organized  event that displays the craft is called a craft fair. There are also stores that sell this kinds of products .
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Imagination is like a factory that doesn’t pollute instead it has a benefic role in making art by creative ways . The activities and lessons include painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, marbling, paper-mache .

As a mother of children, you learn to do crafts with your children . Crafts affect children in a positive way: encourages self-discipline, builds positive self image, promotes eye-hand coordination, rewards hard work and diligence, fosters cooperation with others, cultivates love of learning and encourages their imagination . As parents we do whatever it takes to give the children the best life we can . I used to think that crafts are boring and a pain in the neck. I thought it was hard to organize, messy and not worth the effort. Craft also improves the relationship between brothers or sisters: they argue less, discipline became easier, play together better .

Here are some of the cool craft ideas for children : holidays crafts, birthday parties crafts. Some activities can last for days while others are ready in ten or fifteen minutes. Kids love the idea of getting messy, while for me is a nightmare . Children have different points of view so try not to have expectations. All kids crafts are easy and quick, require minimal materials and equipment.

All you need are inexpensive supplies such as : tempera, paper, pipe cleaners, markers, crayons, colored pencils, watercolors, craft foam sheets, glue and scissors. During the creation of crafts, parental supervision is recommended. Make a colorful and fun valentine hanging . A paper streamer, a little paint and construction paper and you will have a festival hanging .



You need: pieces of white poster cardstock or board, one sheet pink  construction paper, yarn, crepe paper in festive colors, acrylic paints, crayons, tape, scissors and a paintbrush . The child has to make a fist with the help of his both hands. The pinky finger and the side of the hand below will be painted . To form the  left side of the heart, press the poster board and do the same with the right hand to make the other half of the heart . You can repeat the procedures by using different colors . After the paint dries, use the frame boarder which will be the construction paper . Don’t forget to leave space to write names and hearts . In order to hang down from the bottom of the sheet, turn paper over and tape the crepe paper strips to the back of the paper . In order to attach the yarn hanger to the back, use tape and help yourself with scissors if needed . Then you can proudly hand it on the wall !

Here are some tips: you can use construction paper if you don’t have cardstock, construction paper should be bought  in a large variety of packs .

Another cool graft ideas for children is to make valentine hat . When you move your head, this craft foam valentine hat wiggles . You can create the same hat for St. Patrick’s Day with four leaf clover and green foam .



Here is what you need for the valentine hat: red chenille stems, red craft foam , pen, wire cutters , hot glue gun, scissors, ruler, white poster board and to fasten the hat together you need tape , stapler , glue .

This is how to make it: from the red foam cut 4 hearts, 2 bigger and 2 smaller . The poster board needs to fit the child’s head so try the band on the head to see if it fits. Using the wire cutters, cut the red chenille stems. Where the poster board is market , glue the stems of the outside part . On the chenille stems that are attached to the poster board, glue a small heart over each of them. At the other end of the chenille stem, glue a large red heart . Children can decorate with stickers , lace , crayons and markers . In order to obtain a heart shape , you can use a cookie cutter . Let the tacky glue overnight before wearing .



Chinese New Year Welcome Door Hanger is another great craft . You need: gold glitter glue, red foam door hanger, white craft glue , gold glitter glue and a pattern. Print on the pattern the word ,,Welcome’’ with gold glitter glue, with Chinese letters. Gold symbolizes wealth . You can decorate as you like the rest of the door hanger. Glue the orange circles onto the lower half of the door hanger, after the glitter glue dries. You can decorate with tangerine circles that symbolize good luck .



Everyone is happier when making kids crafts. It has a big importance in our every day life. With inexpensive and simple suppliers, children can evidence their creativity. With just a few basic suppliers such as: tempera paint, construction paper, pipe cleaners, markers, crayons, colored pencils, craft foam sheets, crayons, glue stick, scissors and white glue .

In the future you will be able to design your plane. Because of the many flights of airports passengers feel that the traffic is unbearable. A ground transportation system was also design for planes as well as for cars. Now than ever before, many people are travelling  by plane and that is the reason why we have to improve the air transportation system. The first thing you have to know when trying to design a plane, is how plane fly. There are 4 forces of flight that make it happen. There are also different kinds of engines to choose from. How much fuel it uses or how well it flies, it depends on the shape of your aircraft. We have to learn about the materials, aerodynamics and structure. You can determine how much lift you need to make the aircraft go down, up or hover, by the sizes and number of the rotors of your aircraft .
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A well designed aircraft must not increase ground traffic, must have the perfect size, must be able to fly far away, be cheap, carry people and of course to be able to fly. Before the aircraft is built, the designs can be tested .

Here are some aircraft paper designs:

-         dragon plane that has wings completely level
-         the Edmonton shadow  took me three hours to built it
-         the Swallow
-         Trapezium Paper airplane has a heavy nose that has an unusual but effective design. If it will hit a wall it won’t get damaged.
-         Chris’ Paper Plane
-         Nose Heavy Plane
-         Napkin Paper Airplane is an unusual plane but with a simple design
-         Cobra Paper airplane will fly fast and straight and also glide. I’m sure that you will have all the skills required to fold it.
-         Origami Paper airplane/Dart it can be confused with a dart because it flies far.
-         The Lighting
-         Sabertooth paper airplane



Model aircrafts are non-flying or flying models of imaginary and existing aircraft. In full size or down version of planes using materials such as: balsa wood, polystyrene, fibreglass and foam. Designs range from accurate scale models to simple glider aircraft, some of them can be very large. Models can be built either as flying models or non-flying models. These models differ very much .

The aircrafts that are not intended to fly are called static aircrafts. They are built using wood, plastic, paper or metal. Models that are already painted and built can be bought. Increasingly popular have become the snap models that need a minimal construction. These planes are a form of publicity. Injection molded polystyrene is the most common form of manufacture for kits using carbon steel molds. Today this takes place in Taiwan, China, South Korea, Philippines and Eastern Europe. A high degree of precision is allowed by the injection molding. It also can be done by using cast copper molds and cast resin molds .



There are 3groups for flying models:

-free flight has no attachments to the ground
-control line that uses cables leading from the pilot to the wing.
- Radio-controlled aircraft is sending signals to a receiver in the craft.

Here is a cool design to put on a model plane that was designed by Ted Evans with an unusual look and had a great success  from 1947-1950. The static models are totally different to built than flying models. Flying models rarely use metal structure .For the fuselage is used the construction techniques of using longerons and formers and for the wings, ribs and spars .

I will show you know to put a cool design on a model plane. Let’s say we already have a basic design . The nose moment is 11’’, the fuselage length is 45’’ and the tail moment is 18’’.The vertical stabilizer is 7’’ and the horizontal stabilizer is 21’’ X 7’’.We still need to consider the area of the ailerons, elevators and rudder .



We will add some ailerons on the design of the wing. There are 2 types of ailerons: strip ailerons and barn door. Both having disadvantages and advantages Strip ailerons are easy to hook up and install while the barn door looks cool. Strip ailerons require short control rods whereas barn door needs more setups. In the end the choice is in the hands of the designer but I recommend strip ailerons because are more simple .

Aircrafts have a great importance nowadays, they are indispensable. You can travel all over the world, present ads, help people in need in due time. Although not all of us had the chance to fly and are still afraid of the unknown, aircrafts are considered to be safer than any other means of transportation. It is resistant through bad weather, strong and quite easy to fabricate. It is also not so expensive to travel by plane and it is quicker .



Comfort and safety are 2 important issues of our society. It is very difficult to have control over when the airplane is in the air, bad things can occur and are out of your hands. When you take a trip you should think first of  safety and comfort and decide what is best for you. Every means of transportation has disadvantages and advantages.  Being up there through the clouds will give you a great feeling,  a feeling of freedom, of getting close to what is true to us –the  miracles of nature .

A website is a collection of web pages, videos, images that are addressed in an Internet Protocol – based network and with an IP address or common domain name . A web site is accessible via a private local area network or a network like the Internet and is hosted on several web servers. It is written in plain text and you can consider it a document. Suitable markup anchors help incorporate elements from other websites. Web pages are transported and accessed with HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol which in order to provide privacy and security may employ HTTPS –HTTP Secure. The world Wide Web is made of all the web sites. Homepage is URL –Uniform Resource Locator.
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Adolescence is the period of transition of mental and physical development that turn the child into an adult. This transition involves psychological, social and biological changes. You are considered a teenager if you have 13 years old and up to 17.

Notable changes in mood, known as mood swings are associated with adolescent psychology. Emotional, cognitive and attitudinal changes take place during this period and make a difficult period for the teenager as well for his/her parents. A substantial impact of the developing minds of teenagers is their home and the notions that were implemented from their early childhood. During the adolescence period , teens are confused, they don’t know to make the difference between right and wrong.



Here are some cool websites for teenagers and a short description of them:

-         Exchanges Canada – exchange programs and experience the diversity of languages, communities and cultures.

-         TeenOutReach.com – chat, school tutorials and personal advice

-         AIDS Information for Teenagers – ways of becoming infected, what causes AIDS, injected drug, what activities are safe

-         Amigos – place where Hispanic teens share swap experiences,  stories, ask questions and find information

-         BeeTrendy.com – information on trends, styles, games, news and more

-         Bolt – features and news, chat, email, message boards

-         ChannelOne.com – offers news for global community, classroom and entertainment

-         Cheekfreak – get help with post art, problems

-         CyberIsle – youth health information on sex, smoking, alcohol, drugs. Also including discussion groups, graffiti wall, quizzes and games



-         Dallas City Kids – complete guide with places to see, things to do

-         First Cut – via a chat room and a bulletin board teens interact with each other

-         FitTeen – dedicated to weight training, fitness, nutrition and aerobics

-         Foster Club – contests, information, discussion for foster kids

-         FreeThinkersSociety – broadens perspectives to minimize ignorance and prejudice and improves communication

-         Frontline: Inside the Teenage Brain – influence teachers and parents to understand why adolescence behave the way they do.

-         Go4GoWeb – features beauty tips, games, message board and homework help

-         High School Cyberpals – similar interests of high school students

-         High School Underground – high school life’s frustrations

-         High School Nation - comment upon teachers



-         How to be Popular in High School – thoughts about fitting and popularity

-         My future – college and carrier information

-         New Teen Drivers – tips for new and young drivers: how to recognize fatigue, driving in bad weather

-         Once Were Heroes – 20^th century British youth culture

-         Teen Think Tanks of America – brainstorming the prevention and causes of school violence

Cool websites for teenagers must be very interesting because teens get bored quickly. This kind of websites must supply many interactive features in a simple way, but not in a childish way. Teens have a wired lifestyle and researches show that they are using internet for: hobbies, school assignments, news, entertainment , e-commerce and they also learn about health issues that they are embarrassed top talk about.

Although many think that teens are techno wizards the studies contradict that. In fact adults know more how to use complex sites. The poor performance of teens is influenced by: less sophisticated research strategies, insufficient reading skills and lower patience level. Teens pay more attention to the visual aspect of the sites that adults do. Teens want to be stimulated because they have a short attention span. You can never keep teens on your site if it is boring or are difficult to figure out. One funny aspect is that teens don’t like small fonts. And what makes this funny is the fact that the ones that made the study thought that only old users don’t like small fonts because of the bad eyesight and they also thought that websites are made with small fonts because the ones that created them were young people with good eyesight.



Teens are attracted by forms for providing feed-back, online quizzes, games, online voting, message boards, sharing pictures, forums for advices. Teens express themselves in many ways. Teens are very different from children and adults.

The studies show that teens stay in front of the computer from 5 to 10 hour per week. 83% of teenagers are online. Teens prefer web sites that adults like. Such as: Wikipedia, Yahoo, Google. This is what teens like to do on their computers: play computer games, board games, vehicle racing, action figures, play sets, draw and win prizes or see television episodes that they missed. Today teens are demanding and well informed. Only new and interesting websites can interact this new generation of teens.  If you belong to the older generation , it is easy to misunderstand them.

Design means applied engineering and arts. Design stands at the basis of creating an object. Process is also a product of design and it is called process design. The person that designs is called designer.: concept designer, fashion designer and web designer. Designing takes into consideration functional, aesthetic and other aspects. The process of design can take many forms depending on individual participating and on the object that is being designed. We need to apply common structure whether we are talking of consumer products, games or even our own life. The selection, classification and identification of constraints is the first step in the design process.
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A different process is required for something that is redesigned than for something that is designed for the first time. When we redesign we evaluate the existing design and see what needs to be redesigned. Designers follow several steps in order to conclude the design process. Here are the design’s process stages: design brief, analysis, research, specification, documenting, presentation, development, implementation, evaluation and conclusion.

Design is more considered to be a form of art. Design tries to create something that is both aesthetically pleasing functional. For example an advertise designer makes the ad look good and communicates a message through the ad. The most rigorous form of design is engineering. The relationship between production and design is one of executing and planning. Design involves creativity and problem-solving. Design can also be just a plan without including engineering process or production. It is needless to expect a designer to know how to produce a product. Designs are repetitive and are not perfect.

A website is an important connection between customers and company, becoming a determining factor. Cool website designs will help you have stunning websites. Websites need to be designed and developed from many situations. Several factors are taken into consideration for the design of the website: personal preferences, standards for developing information systems, the budget and the time available.

Web design is in constant changing. It is pretty obvious the designs of a women or of a man. Websites for beauty salons are designed by women whereas websites for guns are designed by men. Men outnumber women in many field except textiles and fashion.


I will now  show you how to create a cool website design: the first criteria is readability. You want people to clearly see what is the message you try to transmit. Now you have to choose the font and think how small the text should be. Capital letters are a great solution for small text. I advise you to use small text because of the small space. The images that are supported by web pages are  JPEG and GIF.

When you open a webpage from the internet, your computer will download into a temporary folder all the files.

The website must be that good that we cannot tell the difference between a non-graphic and a graphic part of the web page. It is your choice where the photo should be align. If you want the graphic to appear at the button of the page you can set the photo the right or to the left. You can enhance your web page by using photos. The user may see the whole story at a glance. In web design , thumbnails are important. Thumbnail are small images are useful in links to larger images, it helps the reader to understand more by reading less. Thumbnails should have the same dimension.


Modern graphics have a large variety of tools for enhancing images in many ways. One of the techniques is to fill the background with the colour you want. Another technique is to make the photo black and white and add it on the coloured layer. You can make the photo more attractive by bordering or framing. You can also use scratchy frames.

Buttons are also important in a website design. Graphics can look clickable. Here are some methods to do that: a slight 3D level, a bullet point effect or a drop shadow. Icons are impressive and attractive . The icon represents what the link is about. A dingbat is a font that uses black and white lines instead of letters.


Online business although it appeared nowadays, it is here to stay for long so you better take the internet opportunities to make it interesting. First of all you need a website designer who will analyze what you need and chooses something pertinent for you. In order to create a good website you most know Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash and animation. Then you have to have a custom design that is dynamic or an electronic brochure. If you need afresh new look for your website you can remodel it. Your online strategy meets the requirements of your business and you need a design solution that is effective and economical. It must  have a navigation structure that allows your customers to get what they want easily and quickly. And in this way a loyal clientele would be developed.  With clean, fast loading graphics you can set yourself apart from your competition. To create a reliable solution to feet your needs , you need various types of databases. Your website must transmit your point, to the clients.



A real boost in your sales is to make  your site  compatible with search engines and made in a  way that ensures the easy finding when you search for it. Your goal must be to create a website that is much better from the competition. What it is really important on print, is the visual impact.

Words must be let free on the web. Being free, words can do powerful things with the value of words. With the power of words and design your message can reach people.

When you say layout it could refer to many things like:

1. a design, plan or an arrangement scheme (for a house)


2. the way in which the holes are located on the golf ground when configured


3. an arrangement of a keyboard keys in a functional, mechanical or visual way


4. a design of any publication(magazine, website, advertisement, book or newspaper) page together with pictures, captions and headlines

In the following it will be made a short description of each definition of the term layout and in the same time highlighting some cool layouts for each category.So, a design layout for a house refers to all home plans provided by a home designer. You could ask for a home plan according to your personal needs. As comfort is one of principal factors internet offers many sites where you can find a variety of different categories and styles of cool layouts for your home that finally suit your needs. You can choose from categories like small home plans trough luxurious, one or two story homes; or from different styles like European, Country, Mediterranean, Traditional, Victorian, country and many more. Finding a house layout design perfect for you and that can offer a cozy living space and also keep its own in terms of resale value, all these leads to finding your ideal home.
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As for a design layout of a golf ground we can say that it consists of either 9 or 18 holes. The golf ground does not need a regulated playing area, each one has a unique design. On a golf course each hole has a teeing area (the delimited space from where you can throw the ball) and some other parts like fairway, rough and the putting green.



For increasing the difficulty there are various levels of grass. Some holes bend to the left or to the right depending on the design of the line-of-sight. In order to get cool layouts for a golf course you can get in touch with some specialized companies and make an appointing with a golf architect for discussing your ideas. There are some different styles for the layout of a golf course as following:

-         Parkland courses are typical courses similar to parks with precise fairways and many trees.

-         Heathland course is a large open area less manicured and with less trees.

-         Desert courses are a recent type but they require a heavy irrigation this leading to concerns about an excessive water consumption. Many players prefer this experience because of the amazing variety of animals and plants species.

-         Sand courses this type consists in an area of “browns”- a mixture of oil and sand which is mixed and rolled.

-         Snow or ice courses – these have of course a white color instead of green and for this type of courses colored ball are used.

The keyboard layout is an arrangement of the keys on a typewriter, computer or other typographic keyboard. Christopher Latham Sholes and partners were the ones that invented in 1867 the first mechanical typewriter. At the beginning the keys were placed alphabetically but because of the speed of typing these were broken too often so this has led to QWERTY keyboard layout.  Next step was electric typewriters and then finally the keyboards used for personal computers. According to the 1985 Guinness Book of World Records, Barbara Blackburn held the title of the world’s fastest typer. She said that it was because of the design of the keyboard (Dvorak keyboard) and of course with lots of practice, 212 wpm was her top speed. The difference between Dvorak and QWERTY keyboards is that the first one had consonants on one side and vowels on the other and the most used letters on the center row. It is still debated the replacement of QWERTY with Dvorak In spite of many efforts to improve the speed of typing over the years on the personal computers all that could be done was improve tactile feeling and ergonomics QWERTY keyboards. Until now it seems that QWERTY still remains the one, so if you are looking for cool layouts for keyboards you have plenty from which you can choose.



In order to get a web layout you must follow the following steps, these are the same for the design of a magazine, newspaper, advertisement or book. First you should choose the size for your computer layout.  The size of your computer layout depends of the memory of your computer but the most suitable is 1200x1200 pixels because is large enough to see all the details. Then you must create the layout background by filling the whole picture with any color that you want. For making the background paper more realistic you should add some texture. The texture must be raised to suit the layout size better and because of this it is necessary blurring the image. Next step is to make the paper look more natural by adding shadows to the edges. Now you should add another layer of paper in order to move it individually of the background whenever you want.



Is time to put some photographs on this layout but first you must add contrasting strips to make placeholders for the photos and maybe some text. For each photo you need to create a new layer, you can move them around to see where they look best before choosing the final place. In the end you can retouch the photographs and the text areas and you have the final layout. Cool layouts means to let your imagination to take over and if the inspiration lets you down you can always find it on millions of sites who can offer you for free various layouts already done or you can try to create your unique one.



There are many themes available from where you can choose like: animated, celebrity, emotions, fashion, girls, guys, humor, love, music, retro, rock, bands, sports etc. It is always important to make your profile look interesting and to achieve ,you need a lot of creativity.