Making Paper Houses and Painting Circuits – Bare Conductive. I came across this safe, non-toxic paint at this year’s NYC Maker Faire. Loads of great projects to experiment safely with electricity and art.

  This electronics kit requires no soldiering and is a perfect way to introduce kids to electronics. The components are designed to be snapped together with small magnets to make all kinds of contraptions and devices.  The $129 starter kit includes a button, potentiometer, a pressure sensor, LED light, a [...]

Leave it to an evolutionary biologist to pen a children’s book that describes the “magic of reality”. In the video he says that its aimed for kids around twelve-years-old, perhaps younger. Along with these beautiful illustrations, this will certainly find a place on many a coffee table and bookshelf. Every [...]

This is the second in a series of videos with children’s librarian extraordinaire Susie Heimbach, from the Mulberry St. branch of the New York Public Library.  In this video, she talks about six great books that are perfect to share with young aspiring astronauts in your life. Here’s a list [...]

This is the first in a series of videos I shot with children’s librarian extraordinaire Susie Heimbach. You can normally find her sharing great books with kids of all ages at the Mulberry St. branch of the New York Public Library. She has an infectious enthusiasm for books and reading [...]

Saturday’s performance was meant to be the culmination of a full week of workshops, rehearsals, and set preparation at Stagecoach Theater Camp. The costumes were ready, the kids knew their lines, songs were memorized, blocking locked down. Friends and relatives cleared their schedules for performance day. Everyone was ready to [...]

  I have been enjoying watching the progress of this kid’s book make its way through Kickstarter. Written by Amber Jones, an award-winning concierge who knows a thing or two about how to show visitors the best sights – and smells – of NYC. Her scratch-and-sniff tour of NYC includes [...]

For chocolate lovers of all ages. How about snuggling up inside a candy bar – sweet dreams guaranteed. Also, what a great way to convince the kids to go to sleep. Mine would cooperate for at least one night. Bed Toppings | Chocolate Bed Toppings.

The beautiful dragon crawled from the crooked trunk… Seems like the start (or end) of quite a story. I made this simple Android application using Google’s App Inventor program. This program fill gaps “Mad Lib” style with a random word to create a single – and, most likely, silly sentence. The [...]

Fed up with “clip-art” temporary tattoos for her kids, designer Tina Roth Eisenberg (swissmiss) founded a temporary tatoo company of her own. I think I’m going to surprise my better half with this “Mother” one and tell her that its not temporary. Hmm, wonder how that will go down. She [...]