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All Your Cat Wants For Christmas-Duct Tape

All Your Cat Wants For Christmas-Duct Tape

Now, before you call PETA on me, the least you could do is read the article. The Bangor (ME) Daily Post has a “how to article” entitled “Make Toys Cats Will Love”. Try this one for your kitty.  The toy is called “feathers on a stick”. Here’s how to make it. “First, assemble the materials […]

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Yes, But Can I Get A Job When I Graduate

Yes, But Can I Get A Job When I Graduate

WACH (the Winfield Arts & Humanities Council) has elevated learning how to make things with duct tape to class status. One of their summer offerings is a duct tape class for children, where the kids learn to use duct tape to make useful and wearable items. WACH even calls the kids “students”. Here’s the story […]

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Artist Hopes To Cover New Jersey In Duct Tape

Artist Hopes To Cover New Jersey In Duct Tape

Eric Klein, a Hoboken, NJ artist, creates art with patterns and shpaes by covering large surfaces with duct tape. You can see some of his work by clicking here.   Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll share it with the world! Thetapeworks.com.

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Yeah, But Does She Have A Stagehands Union Card?

Yeah, But Does She Have A Stagehands Union Card?

There’s nothing new about The British tabloid The Sun using scantily scad models to sell papers and get media attention, but this really makes no sense to us. A new series of “Do It Yourself” videos is designed to get more men to help with household chores by using videos of women in their underwear […]

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Irish Dancer “Dances His Shoes Off”!

Irish Dancer “Dances His Shoes Off”!

Owen Barrington, a lead dancer in the Riverdance company and a featured performer in the PBS special, Beyond Celtic, literally dances so hard his shoes disintegrate. Owen’s mother, Donna, provided these pictures (click here) of how Owen has to rebuild his shoes with gaffers tape in order to get through his rigorous performance schedule. Tapenews.com […]

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Art Competition Features Carton Sealing Tape

Art Competition Features Carton Sealing Tape

These are definitely worth sharing. The online version of the British paper The Daily Mail posted these photos of sculptures made from clear carton sealing tape. Look at the pictures and then give it a try. You can get the carton sealing tape by clicking here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s […]

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That’s Right, She Calls It “Ductivities”

That’s Right, She Calls It “Ductivities”

Amy Winter, a librarian in Mentor, OH,  is running a summer activities program where she shows kids how to use duct tape to make craft items. Using duct tape to make handy items like wallets and book covers is not really new, but the name of Ms. Winter’s program certainly is.  She calls it “Ductivities”. […]

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Summer Travel Plans?  Fire Up Your Own Hovercraft

Summer Travel Plans? Fire Up Your Own Hovercraft

“Some Assembly Required” at engineering.com, one of our favorite “do it yourself” web sites, shows you how to  make your own hovercraft, one with enough power to actually move you over the ground. As you might have guessed, it will require a lot of duct tape. click here to watch a “how to” video.   […]

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Q: How Do You Make A Duct Tape Microphone?

Q: How Do You Make A Duct Tape Microphone?

A: Why would you want to? Anyway, you can click here for the instructions Click here for the duct tape Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll share it with the world!Thetapeworks.com

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Can Duct Tape Float Your Boat?

Can Duct Tape Float Your Boat?

It’s time for the summer cardboard boat races in Des Moines, IA and if this year is like races in years past, the team with the best taping job is likely to cross the finish line first. The Des Moines races are part of the Great Cardboard Boat Regatta, founded in 1974 and there are […]

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