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Foldable Pop-Up Paper House

Foldable Pop-Up Paper House

Designer Katherine Belsey has created this two story, eight room, totally foldable toy house – complete with a variety of papercraft furnishings. She offers several different ways to buy the templates for the rooms – from single rooms “a la carte” to an entire book with the complete plans for her foldable house. She also [...]

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Simple Sight Words Android App

Simple Sight Words Android App

With the help of Google’s App Inventor for Android, I have created a really useful and totally bare bones app to help my Kindergarten-aged daughter with her “sight words”.  I took the “Primer” words from the Dolch Word List and made this easy app that displayed one randomly after pressing a button. As she progresses, [...]

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My First App – Made in Fifteen Minutes

My First App – Made in Fifteen Minutes

That’s a screen shot of my first App. A little thing I’m calling KidsGiggle. Pushing the picture plays a short recording of them laughing.  What’s cool is that it took me – a noob with zero programming experience – about fifteen minutes to make. I made it with Google Lab’s App Inventor – a visually [...]

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Making Paper Houses and Painting Circuits – Bare Conductive

Making Paper Houses and Painting Circuits – Bare Conductive. I came across this safe, non-toxic paint at this year’s NYC [...]

littleBits: EZ Electronics for Kids

littleBits: EZ Electronics for Kids

This electronics kit requires no soldiering and is a perfect way to introduce kids to electronics. The components are designed [...]

Reality is Magical Too! Take That Unicorns!

Reality is Magical Too! Take That Unicorns!

Leave it to an evolutionary biologist to pen a children’s book that describes the “magic of reality”. In the video [...]

Susie Brings Books: 6 Space Books for Aspiring Astronauts

Susie Brings Books: 6 Space Books for Aspiring Astronauts

This is the second in a series of videos with children’s librarian extraordinaire Susie Heimbach, from the Mulberry St. branch [...]