War Games: 12 Kid-Friendly Park & Playground Tanks
Why scrap a decommissioned tank or self-propelled gun when it can easily be re-purposed as playground equipment, asked nobody ever. ALMOST nobody, that is. This pair of colorful ex-Soviet ...
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Modular Mood Rings: 3D-Printed Gem Blocks Make ‘Lego’ Jewelry a Snap
Instead of swapping between rings and earrings for different occasions, why not keep the framework and trade out the colorful key element: the featured jewel. Inspired by Lego and ...
Playing for Keeps: Robust Putty Binds Found Objects into Colorful Furniture
Colorful but powerful, this strong synthetic dough (dubbed PLAY) looks like modeling clay made for kids, but can hold together all kinds of materials including wood, metal, glass and marble. The ...
Dynamic Apparel: Flexible Charity-Designed Shoes Can Grow Up to 5 Sizes
In countries where walking barefoot is the norm, these durable shoes that grow with a child's feet can improve health, confidence, even school attendance, according to The Shoe That ...
Playful Kirigami: Touch-Activated Paper Animals Pop into Action
Acting out scenes from storybooks or animating real activities, these deceptively simple-looking, folded-paper toys leap, bounce, roll and hatch into action when played with. Japanese ...
Kid Stuffed: 10 More Eerie Abandoned Orphanages
Little orphans any? Not so much these days thanks to fostering and improved economies, the result being many former orphanages have been left eerily abandoned. While many orphanages ...
Magical Monsters & Kid-Size Castles: 12 Epically Imaginative Playgrounds
It’s true that as we get older, we lose most of the rich imagination that had us drawing monsters and telling strange stories as kids, the world seeming less magical with each year that passes. ...
Tag, You’re It! Banksy Shows Softer Side, Makes Mural for Kids
Best known for biting political commentary and poignant artistic critiques, mysterious artist Banksy showed a somewhat friendlier side of his personality in gifting a mural to elementary ...
Mini Modernists: 15 Designer Toys for Young Architecture Fans
Foster an appreciation for fine modernist architecture and design from an early age with Bauhaus dollhouses, Eames block sets, mini Corbusier lounge chairs and urban planning board games. There's ...
Suckers! Japan’s Ubiquitous Octopus Playground Slides
Weird anthropomorphic, gaudily painted concrete octopus slides lurk within hundreds of Japanese playgrounds, silently traumatizing generations of kids. ...
