Children love to be involved in what is happening around them. They love to do “grown-ups stuff”, and they happen to suffer from the fact that grown-ups don’t take them seriously enough. They look so cute when they discuss grown-ups issues, that we laugh at their ideas (even if with good intentions) and just don’t consider them credible enough to have a proper conversation about certain topics.
Tag archive: news for kids
A goat, its three kids and a (cheating!) wolf. In Afghanistan’s first computer-animated movie!
18 June 2012
“Buz-e-Chini,” (The Goat) is a 3D animated movie by Abbas Ali, a graphic designer and cartoon lover from Afghanistan who found refuge in Pakistan when the Taliban took over his country. He started working on the movie while away, and after the end of the Taliban regime went back to Afghanistan and finished the project.
Coloring the city good.
31 May 2012
Wouldn’t you love it if this bulding were in your neighborhood?
Picture via T Magazine
And imagine if there were 100 more just round the corner! [read more]
Best. Playgrounds. Ever.
29 May 2012
There are playgrounds and then there are uttlerly amazing playgrounds, like the ones Monstrum designes in Denmark, which we discovered thanks to Villekulla.
When we say utterly amazing, we mean it: isn’t this incredible?
All pictures via Monstrum
Yes, we are jealous of the kids in the picture too! [read more]
Fight bullying at school… with color!
28 May 2012
Can colors affect the developing brain and be used to teach tolerance? The Color Coalition thinks so.
Winner of the Color in Action Award by Pantone and Academy of Art University, the project is the result of a research based on the psychological effects of colors, with particular focus on their impact at a young age and on how they can be used to teach tollerance and lower aggression. [read more]
Fun art shows to enjoy with your kids
24 May 2012
If you are looking for something cool to do with your kids on the weekend, here are some art around the world to check out – you’ll both have fun.
Paris, France
Although it gets heavy at times, contemporary art can be a lot of fun to experience with your kids. If you are in Paris, take a trip to the Palais de Tokyo, which is now open with its new exhibition spaces. Have a look at La Triennale: Intense Proximité, where you can take pictures of your kids (and yourself) with awesome, massive images from tropical forests as background, and see an early XX century collection of images of African masks. Or you can go straight to the source of fun, Ulla von Brandenburg’s Death of a King, a colourful space where your kids will love to jump and run (and scream!).
A nine-year-old’s blog gets her school to serve better food
23 May 2012
If there’s a common memory across all generations of kids eating at school canteens, that is the one of shabby, tasteless (if you are lucky), terrible meals. We’ve been there, and we tried all the complaining and whining and tricks we could think of to deal with the sadness of our school food – all but one: blogging about it.
