Lots of you like playing ‘The Incredible Machine’ at school, so you might like to download ‘Souptoys’ which lets you build machines right on your desktop. link

Here is a real-life incredible machine built in a Japanese lab:

And here is Blueprint another good ‘Incredible Machine’ type game. link

Lots of you chose to dress up like pirates for book week (photos here) – so you might like to learn how to talk like a pirate!

More advice on ‘How To Be Speakin’ Pirate-Like’ here

What can a powerful blender manage to blend? Find out here

‘Baboon Bungalow’ by Collins & Harlan 1909.
“Chunky monkey chimpanzees, hiding in their cocoanut trees…”
Listen while you read!

For a jukebox full of cylinder music click here

The National Film Board of Canada has been producing wonderful animations for more than 60 years, they have 43 animated short films suitable for children to watch online here

Peter Callesen makes amazing artworks out of single sheets of paper (from A4 up to room size!) – link

If you’ve enjoyed playing ‘Bound Around’ at school, then you’ll like ‘Christmas Bound’. You can download it free for your PC here.

Next week will be Book Week at school – so here are some unusual books:

Here are a couple of Su Blackwell’s artworks, constructed by cutting books -

More of Su Blackwell’s books here

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The worlds largest book is “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom” weighing more than 130 pounds and measuring five feet by seven, nearly as big as a Ping-Pong table. link

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Miniature books seem to have been made for as long as people have been creating books.The Lilly Library has an online display of ’4000 Years of Miniature Books’. link
Here is a miniature library -

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There are lots of interesting illustrated stories (from antique books) for children of all ages to read online here at ‘Children’s Books Online’

…and another great site for reading books online here at the International Children’s Digital Library.

If you got good at drawing lines with ‘Line Rider’, see how fast you draw with ‘Scribble’ here