Archive for April, 2007

Noisy children

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Poke the children to get coughs, sneezes and other noises – a human drum machine! link
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What to do in a Fairy Tale

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Neil Gaiman reading his poem about what to do if you find yourself in a Fairy Tale – ‘Instructions -

Animated poems

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

A couple of very nice animations of poems by Billy Collins.
‘Walking across the Atlantic’:

and ‘Forgetfullness’:

Making museums

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Most children like creating their own ‘museums’. Here’s a nice cartoon of a museum created by the ‘nibs’ – the children in the Casey Court cartoon (which ran from 1902 to the mid 1950s). To see the whole picture click here .
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Make your own sculpture and see it displayed in a museum. link
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Create your own surrealist masterpiece and add it to an online gallery. link
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Scrapblog

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

If you like making scrap-books, then ‘scrapblog’ is a website that lets you create multi-media scrap-books online – you can add your own pictures and decorate with frames, stickers, speech-bubbles etc. You can experiment with making pages without signing up. Remember to ask your parents if you would like to save your pages and join this service! link
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April’s wax cylinder recording

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Well it’s Spring, so here is a recording entitled ‘Birds of the Forest’ from 1913.

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For a jukebox full of cylinder music click here

Cow control

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

IQ Marathon is a game where you have to guide a cow to reach a yellow object by placing guiding arrows on the screen. The instructions are in German but you’ll work it out! link
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Clue: the red arrows disappear after redirecting the cow, the blue ones are permanent.

Paint Ball

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Nice straightforward game – all you need to do is draw extra ‘walls’ so that the red ball bounces onto the red square. link
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Juggling in a cone

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Greg Kennedy juggling inside an inverted cone!