Easy Kid’s Terrarium
National Geographic Kids has an easy project to make a terrarium. I love the added little gnome figurine. [ via Apartment Therapy ohdeedoh ] Related: Tiny Terrariums
Kids & Family
Peripheral Drift – rotating snakes image
Tinselman had a link to these wonderfully confusing images. Nothing is actually moving on the screen – they work if you print them out, too. Here’s a short explanation of the peripheral drift illusion. And I found this article on the science of optical illusions.
Anatomy on the go
This makes me want an iPhone – you can get these awesome Netter’s Anatomy flashcards. (via Street Anatomy)
HOW TO – Make Easy Kid’s Shorts from a T-shirt
Julie-bird came up with a super simple pattern for making kid’s shorts out of an old t-shirt. This seems like a great idea for a time when a child grows so fast.
Learning the Game of Life at family reunion
Over at LadyAda’s Tea Party, aspro648 posts about a recent family reunion where they used Adafruit’s Game of Life electronics kits as a build activity for the tweens and teens. They built and joined ten GoL kits. Cool idea! Game of Life – 10 boards! More: Game of Life – An electronics kit Game of […]
Transformers Birthday Cake
Zakke Life has some seriously lucky kids–look at the amazing Transformers-themed birthday cake their great-aunt made for them!
Light drawing tutorial
We pointed out this great Instructable on making LED light drawing pens a while back. Stuart and Lori have a really neat tutorial about light drawing on their site, LightDoodles. (I’ve always loved this picture of Picasso.) Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a […]