Posts Tagged ‘kids’
Girl Scouts of the USA just unveiled 18 new badges that its members can earn for computer programming. But these badges come with a typical Girl Scouts twist: Participants will learn how to use the power of computer programming to make a difference.&... ...
Young @Pugloca has his finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist -- the self-described anime and Halflife fan came to Vidcon in this stunning cosplay: an influencer apology video, replete with many, many ads. He was spotted by The Atlantic's Taylor Lorenz.
Everything about this is [[chef kiss gesture]]: the number of views, the ...
Back in 2010, It Books published Mary-Lou Weisman's biography of MAD Magazine icon Al Jaffee: Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography; I missed it then but happened upon Arie Kaplan's 2011 writeup in The Jewish Review of Books this morning and was charmed by the biographical sketch it lays out.
Jaffee previously) invented ...
Life360 is an app that lets you track a mobile phone user in fine-grained, realtime detail, with options to set alert for things like "is this person exceeding the speed limit?" It's widely used by parents to track their teens, and this seems to be the summer where it comes into its own, with millions ...
The "Mosquito" is a high-pitched tone generator designed only to be audible to children and teens, and not to adults, in whose ears the nerve cells that detect these high tones have died off.
In Philadelphia, 30 city parks and rec facilities have deployed these anti-personnel weapons under the rubric of deterring "loitering" and "vandalism" (20 ...
TL;DR: The adorable kids editions of the Echo Dot . and Fire 7 are available together for $129.98 on Amazon.
Do you love Alexa so much that you basically consider her a family member? Well now you can let your kids join in on the fun with this speci... ...
Darius Brown, an awesome kid from Newark, New Jersey, makes bow ties for shelter animals to help them get adopted (because they're more cute). The cause is righteous, and so is the creativity he puts into designing and making the bow ties.
His organization is called Beaux and Paws.
There's a GoFundMe. You know what ...
From an excerpt from last year's The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, the rules of "Freddish" -- as Mr Rogers' crewmembers jokingly referred to the rigorous rules that Rogers used to revise his scripts to make them appropriate and useful for the preschoolers in his audience.
Rogers' nine rules are a ...
TL;DR: This super-simple electric shaved ice maker from Hawaiian Shaved Ice is on sale for $34.99, saving you $24.96.
Ice cream and frozen drinks are great in summer, but everyone can admit that a rainbow shaved ice is on another level.
You don't ha... ...
Graffiti Diplomacy is a Brooklyn-based graffiti art studio and educational outfit with a terrific Web site containing free lessons, handouts, and craft activities for beginning (and advanced) artists. Their "Urban Blight" diorama how-to, complete with popsicle stick picket fences, looks like a lot of fun to build and tag.
Graffiti Crafting # 1 ...