As a member of a Pixar-crazed family, it is very interesting that Pixar Animation Studios has teamed up with Khan Academy to release Pixar in A Box, a new free online resource, where through a series of great video lessons, interactive exercises and hands-on activities, students discover how the math concepts they learn in school enable Pixar filmmakers to work on things like Environmental Modeling, Character Modeling, Animation, Crowds, Sets and Staging, and Rendering. The program is designed for kids in sixth grade and up, but is available and accessible to all ages. Each part has a series of short videos explaining the practical use of math using an example from a Pixar movie, then the user can play around with an app online.
Great for kids to see the connection between the math they learn at school and their application in the cool world of Pixar.
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How great is this huge clear balloon filled with colorful confetti? Just imagine the moment it bursts! Also available in smaller sizes and metallic confetti.
This place looks like heaven for the kids!
Copenhagen-based COBE Architects designed a kindergarten modeled on simple children’s drawings of houses with peaked roofs: “We have worked to create a simple expression, as a caricature of how a child might draw a house.”
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This short animation is so good and it’s no surprise it has won more than 50 awards.
I hadn’t realized Jacob Frey is the same director, who did Bob a few years back, a very funny animation about a hamster, that my kids loved watching again and again. We will probably see more of him, since “The Present” was only his thesis for Film Academy in Germany and since then he has gone to work for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Based on a comic strip by Fabio Coala.
Designer Tommy Perez found a creative way to teach his 2-year-old daughter Zoë the alphabet with his project ‘A to Zoë’.
Love these fun IDs for the Canadian preschool channel called Family Jr, created by Toronto-based production company Tendril. Unfortunately these spots weren’t selected as the final direction for the station.
While looking for Christmas gift ideas for my kids, I stumbled upon the Cubic House by French toy company Djeco: A doll house inspired by modern architecture!
Featuring clean geometric lines, large glazed surfaces and colorful interiors, this has to be the most luxurious, modern and beautiful doll house I have ever seen. I almost decided to buy it, but unfortunately the house plus the furnishing & inhabitants do not come cheap, so it is on my future wish-list. Because I told myself, it’s ok to pretend to buy this for my youngest daughter, when in fact I would be getting it for myself!
I find these Holly Balloon Sticks very appropriate for the day. They are made out of green card stock and balloons! I don’t like complicated arts and crafts for the kids and this looks really simple and at the same time very impressive!
I always loved Lego as a kid but Alycia Zimmerman, a 3rd-grade teacher in New York, takes it to a new educational level. She uses LEGO bricks to explain fractions, squares and other mathematical concepts to her students. What a great idea!
She has also written an article about the full potential of LEGO and about her experience in using them in class.
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