@woahtori #colorsorting ♬ Summer – Aesthetic Sounds
My friend Steve pointed me to this incredibly soothing and minimal app called Sorting Therapy. My kids love it too!
Sorting Therapy
My Kids Love Blinks
Two weeks ago my kids discovered Blinks. The initial excitement was big. And continues. I am in the stage of parenting where I never know what will be a hit with my kids – Blinks is a definite winner.
It too *me* a moment to wrap my head around the idea of Blinks as it is like nothing I have ever seen. My kids of course picked it all up way faster than me. I would describe Blinks as a table-top game from the future.
Each ‘Blink Node’ represents one game and if you decide to play it, it tells the other pieces to get on board and programs them to do so. It all feels quite magical. So, basically, you have multiple board games at your fingertips, and as you add more blinks over time (they continuously come out with new ones) your game library expands.
We have the Combo Set and have had so much fun discovering the various games you can play. My kids definitely love Wham and speed racer. My favorite is Puzzle 101.
We haven’t mastered all of them yet, as some of them seem more complex than others. I am thankful for the instructional videos. Show me and I understand. Whenever I have to read game instructions I am lost. Visual learner anyone else?
Anyhow, if you’re going stir crazy at home and want your kids to be entertained and challenged, I can’t recommend Blinks enough.
I got to video-chat-meet the founder Jon Bobrow. He was so kind to give my kids a little intro to Blinks. They loved it and him. What a joy to learn that the people behind the products you love are kind, generous humans. Jon is one of them.
Jon does live-streams on how to play with Blinks at home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Here’s one.
And here’s the video we watched once we first got our Blinks:
Consider me and my kids a fan.
Block Cube 3D Wooden Puzzle
This Block Cube 3D Wooden Puzzle looks fun.
OuiSi: The Photo Connection Game
As someone who is highly visual, I am excited to play this game.
Wavelength
Wavelength is a social guessing game where two teams compete to read each other’s minds.
(via Kottke)
Paper Airplane Database
Fold’N Fly is an impressive paper airplane database. I know what I am doing with my kids tonight!
(via Dense Discovery)
Chrome Music Lab
My son’s head will explode when I show him the Chrome Music Lab. It’s a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
(via Dense Discovery)
Food Puzzles
Love these food puzzles!
Color Changing Puzzle
This puzzle looks mighty satisfying. I’d sit down and puzzle away.
Beetle Puzzle
This Beetle Puzzle by DOIY is stunning. Comes with a adhesive sheets to stick the puzzle pieces together to frame or display as art at the end.
Thought Hopper 3000
Thought Hopper 3000 – an online destination for a 5 minute vacation by Vera van Wolferen. Beautiful. And mad respect for the x-acto knife skills.
(via Chris)
Walk on Water
‘The WaterMat‘ is a non-inflatable, floating mat that’s basically a portable island. The mat can hold up to 1,200 pounds and rolls up for easy transportation making it perfect for your next lake adventure. FUN!
Virtual Reality Beat Saber
I think I would enjoy playing this: VR Beat Saber.
(via Chris)
Tooter Smart Flashcards
If my kids were still little, I would support this Kickstarter and buy a set of Tooder flashcards. The interactive iPad part makes it fun and parent-indepdenent. Winner!
Draw With Type: Weird Type
Weird type explanatory video :)https://t.co/zYAZkoUDNy pic.twitter.com/hYz0FBoiZc
— zach lieberman (@zachlieberman) March 12, 2018
Zach Lieberman and his wife Molmol Kuo created an iOS app that lets you draw with type, it’s appropriately called Weird Type. Type floating in space makes my heart go pitter patter.
Infento
A few weeks ago I was at a friend’s house in LA and he showed me Infento. This makes me want to be a kid! You can build various rides for your kids, with your kids. This is next level LEGO-kinda-play!
Method of Action
Learn typography, color, kerning, and more, all by playing a few fun mini-games.
Skyline Chess
Skyline Chess brings the iconic architecture of New York City to your chess board. Made me smile.
The Creature Garden
The Creature Garden App by Tinybop is delightful. It lets you create incredible, fantastical creatures with 100s of different hooves and horns, wings and beaks, paws and claws, and more. So much fun!
Rubber Band Gun
Rubber Band Gun. My kids would love this.