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 break a leg – until [...]
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Dear Photograph – Insert the Past into Now
I am late to the game on this great site (and internet phenomenon) that encourages people to send in new pictures having inserted an old one from the same spot. Kids change so quickly, I do find myself getting nostalgic for events that were just a year or two ago. The boy in this photograph [...]
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A Book Your Kids Can Really Get Into
Why read in bed when you can read your bed? Turn the pages when you feel a bit chilly or too warm. I love this design by Yusuke Suzuki that opens up a ton of possibilities for storytime. Book Bed – Neatorama.
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Slide Into My… Other Penthouse
This is the best way ever to get from one floor to another. Not the first or most extreme architectural slide, but its definitely cool. But what else is a Pro Poker player to do with his two East Village Penthouses. Pro Poker Player Builds Slide to Connect East Village Penthouses – Adventures [...]
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Hero Dad Makes Playable Angry Birds Birthday Cake
Dad hero of the week goes to Mike Cooper who spent ten hours making a playable Angry Birds birthday cake for his son Ben’s sixth birthday. He posted full instructions on Electric Pig.
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Super Colossal Cardboard Playhouse
Came across this very cool cardboard playhouse made by architecture firm Super Colossal based in Sydney. This colossal cardboard play palace, isn’t built to last forever. You’ll want to recycle it after the first rain. Still, what a fun piece of cardboard design. Super Colossal.
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Best Dad Project Ever: Homemade Spacecraft
And the award to the best dad project ever goes to… Luke Geissbuhler who sent a camera and iPhone into space teathered to a weather balloon. The video is amazing, the project unbelievably cool. For more information, go to the brooklynspaceprogram.org. Sign me up for the next mission! He’s working on a book as well [...]
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Home with big built in slide
I was a bit late to this Gizmodo post. I would like one installed, but add the water feature to make that concrete more slideable. Gizmodo: Slide Into Home.
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Heat Seeking Nerf Gun
This Nerf gun will sense your presence and start shooting you. Then it won’t stop. No kid required. Hats off to the most extreme Nerf hack we’ve seen to date. Congrats to Rick Prescott who outfitted his Nerf Vulcan with a thermo sensor and won the Make Magazine Gadget Freak Contest. Make: Online : Gadget [...]
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Playgoda
Awesome flat-pack play structure. Because I like structures. And like flat-pack. Toss in a Pagoda-inspired design, and you’ve got a big old dose of flat-pack fun. Wonder what the shipping and handling on that will be? Whimsical Asian-Inspired Playhouse at Dwell on Design | Inhabitots.
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