By Koseli.
Have you heard of DIY.org? It’s an online community for kids and it’s smart. Children post their own DIY projects — like snow castles, wolf masks, knitted scarves, legos, rock collections, and forts — and share their work with fellow users. They can complete challenges to receive patches specific to a particular skill, like Camper, Paper Crafter, or Zoologist. The image above is just a few of the many, many patches they can earn. Could this be the boy scouts/girl scouts of the future?
Here, two blacksmith apprentices forge their own metal leaf. Pretty cool. Do your kids love to build things? Be creative? Would they like a site like this?
P.S. — The site seems to take privacy very seriously; users choose nicknames and illustrated animal avatars so their names and faces never have to be shown.
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That sounds awesome! I am always looking for additional activities for my kiddo. Nice find, thanks!
What a FABULOUS idea!!!!! I can’t wait to show my daughter this tonight! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Very cool. That looks like something my kids would LOVE!
Awesome. Yes, I can’t wait to share with my nieces and nephews. It’s brilliant.
Sounds awesome, especially for my DIYer 8 year old.
Also, I got my Zoologist badge, but it took me three years at University! ;)
Hallelujah! Thank you for posting this. My husband and I were literally just talking about doing some goal oriented creative project with our kids that would not be scouts but be like that! I was thinking we would have to develop some elaborate system that would probably take us a year and would get procrastinated and never finished and now you have saved the day !
Oh, I’m so glad. An exciting family activity tonight. :)
Great share, thank you. My son will LOVE this.
WAHOO! My son is going to love this. Finally! Somewhere to show off his Lego boats, paper airplanes and army set ups!
This is awesome! We started Girl Scouts this year and are already burnt out and a bit disillusioned about it (at least I can say that I am). Something like this would fill the patch-earning excitement void left by our departure from scouting next year.
Oh, my kids will love this! I can’t wait to show them. Thanks for the recommendation.
Do you know if they earn real badges? (As opposed to virtual ones…)
Yep! Real embroidered patches coming soon.
Good to know, Zach. I know lots of people were wondering this.
Oh, this is such a great idea! I have a five year old super busy creator in my house who would just love to take part in this. She really responds to rewards (badges, certificates etc) so I can imagine she’d be pretty motivated to earn those patches!
Thanks for sharing :)
Oh so great, Sally. I just came back to this post after reading one of Erin Loechner’s posts on Design for Mini Kind on children and the entrepreneurial spirit. I cannot get enough of this DIY.org concept. It’s wonderful!