Finger Magic
Origami designed to be better. Cindy Ng has refined traditional origami paper, designed a line of whimiscal origami kits, and brought a novel twist of distinct life, character, and personality to origami. Furthermore, those who have struggled with origami can finally enjoy this favorite pastime as these kits are designed to enable any novice to achieve expert results.
Explore It: www.fingermagic.com
You Grew Up Playing Games. Why Can’t Your Kids?
via Wired… A simply amazing article offering an insight to video games and kids by Clive Thompson. From the article,”Gamers like me have spent years railing against ill-informed parents and politicians who’ve blamed games for making kids violent, unimaginative, fat or worse. But now we’re in a weird position: We’re the first generation that is young enough to have grown up playing games, but old enough to have kids.”
Read It: www.wired.com
Element Eden
Element has gathered a team of craftswomen into a group called the Element Eden Advocates. There are no set rules for who can become an advocate other than creativity, passion, and social awareness. The goal with the program is to inspire and present a broader and more realistic definition of what it means to be a girl. Element hopes this approach will not only present a more balanced view of the female perspective, but will inspire the younger generations.
Explore It: www.elementeden.com
LoveToKnow
LoveToKnow works to bring you unbiased accurate and up to date information on everything that you would love to know. They feature just about every topic from kid’s carfts to video games.
Explore It: www.lovetoknow.com
Adobe Digital Kids Club
Adobe Digital Kids Club is a special site created for teachers, students, and parents. You’ll find the essential digital photography, video, and imaging resources you need to unleash the creative freedom that digital media products offer.
Explore It: www.adobe.com/education/digkids
Visuwords
Visuwords is a flash-based dictionary and thesaurus. Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and they will be displayed graphically.
Explore It: www.visuwords.com
Kids Off the Couch
Kids Off the Couch is a free weekly newsletter for parents offering fresh ideas to get kids excited about film, culture, and family time.
Explore It: www.kidsoffthecouch.com
Mego Museum
A comprehensive museum archive of Mego action figures and playsets including World’s Greatest Super Heros, Wizard of Oz and television favorites. Enjoy endless hours of digging around!
Explore It: www.megomuseum.com
Nasa Gallery
Need a little visual inspiration? Take a journey through Nasa’s gorgeous image of the day gallery.
Explore It: www.nasa.gov
The Art of the Brick
Nathan Sawaya creates elaborate, colorful and whimsical artwork made entirely of the popular children’s toy, Lego!
Explore It: www.nathanbrickartist.com
The Art of Dr. Seuss
The paintings and illustrations included in the Dr. Seuss Archival Works show another facet of his artistic expressions as seen in his political cartoons, advertising illustrations, select private works and some of his more obscure books for children. Little T and I had the chance to view this in person at Art Expo and it’s truly amazing.
Explore It: www.drseussart.com
Construction Paper Sculpture
A gallery of intricate and colorful sculpture using construction paper by Jen Stark.
Explore It: www.jenstark.com
Giant Inflatable Insects
These eye-catching, super-sized insects will fascinate everyone. The realistic details of the ladybug, dragonfly, ant, bee and grasshopper are based on insect field guides and allow you to teach the body parts of the insect.
Get It: www.stevespanglerscience.com
RubikCubism
via Product Dose… RubikCubism is an expanding collection of work by French artist Space Invader that includes large-scale, pixelated portraits using multiple Rubik’s Cubes as a medium.
Explore It: www.space-invaders.com
