Ohio-based artist Christian Faur’s earliest memories of making art involve crayons. Aiming, in part, to capture that feeling a kid gets when they open a fresh, new, box of crayons, Faur is now using those pristine crayons to create pointillist art works that alter subtly as viewers move around the gallery.
Spring has arrived and we’re thinking about gardens! While gardening for food is rewarding, and growing exotic plants can be an interesting challenge, an often overlooked way for kids to get involved with gardening is with a butterfly garden. Butterfly gardens usually rely fairly heavily on indigenous plants, making them easy for children to maintain, and our bunch really loves seeing the butterflies visit.
TheButterflySite.com has pages and pages of awesome info, tips and suggestions for those planning on setting aside a corner of their garden to attract and support different species of butterflies.
A new study, released by the University of Colorado in Boulder, is aiming to redefine our expectations of children’s memories. Researchers were surprised to find that, unlike adults, toddlers and preschoolers store, rather than process, new information. Instead of planning for the future, or even living entirely in the present, small children deal with situations retroactively.
What this means to parents, of course, is that contrary to appearances, kids are hearing those things you tell them over and over again, but they can’t necessarily use this information to build a picture of the future. Instead of giving advice to our small kids based on what might happen in the future, it might be more effective to ask them to recall the past when making their decisions.
source: University of Colorado at Boulder. “New View Of The Way Young Children Think.” ScienceDaily 25 March 2009.
Daniel Pinkwater’s new children’s book, The Yggyssey is currently available to read online. The Yggysey takes place in the same world as his previous book, the Neddiad, and contains some of the same characters, but can also stand alone. As a special bonus, visitors to the online reader can listen to an audio file of the first chapter, read by the author himself.
From the jacket:
At today’s very, very wonderful Yahoo! Canada presents The Bunch Family Salon, kids shared their thoughts about what they love and don’t love about Bunch’s hometown:
Vincent, 3; Maxime, 7; Beatrice, 5What do you like about Toronto?
Beatrice: Flowers…pink flowers.
Vincent: Cars
What don’t you like about Toronto?
Beatrice: I don’t like boys.
What do you like?
Maxime: Sports. Lacrosse. I like to play at Long Branch.
Is there anything you like outside of sports?
Maxime: Soccer.
via The Torontoist
Yahoo! Canada Presents The Bunch Family Salon is completely sold out. Please do not come to OCAD today unless you have already purchased. We hate turning you guys away!
Walking past the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. in Seattle, you might see silver-clad mannequins or get a chance to observe someone being tested in a “Space Competency Certification Station”. If you decide to enter, you’ll be transported into another reality altogether. The walls are lined with scientific equipment from another era, an emergency spaceship repair hull and machines whose uses are left to the imagination of the observer.
