Humiliate Your Pet, Star Wars Style
If ever there was canine justification for tearing up furniture, peeing in slippers and stealing food, this may be it.
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IKEA Take On the Kid’s Lemonade Stand
Kids selling lemonade is kind of an American classic image. IKEA takes a shot at it with their children’s market stand, Skylta. This one is corrogated cardboard, so might be better suited to roleplaying… unless you want to use it as a pattern for your DIY flatpack creation.
Encourages role play; children develop social skills by imitating grown-ups and inventing their own roles.
Highly Disturbing Adult Sized Baby Face Masks
Oh look, its more nightmare material (as if we needed anymore). These disturbing realistic maskes are individually handcrafted latex and come in “disgusted”, “happy” and “crying” varieties.
Minimize the Toy, Maximize the Imagination
I’m a firm believer that children’s toys should meet the imagination halfway, empowering creativity and exploration, rather than present entertainment. In a similar vein, Kukkia’s “Machi” is a simple, minimalist set that allows children to create freeplay creations.
Kukkia means ‘to bloom’ in Finnish and ‘kuki’ means stem in Japanese. The focus of their products is to provide children with tactile and vividly-colored shapes that are both fun and visually stimulating. They want kids to get involved and to use their imaginations to create, change and re-invent how toys are played with.
Home Mead, I Mean Made
I’m more cider and hard liquor sort of guy, but I advocate home, recreational brewing as a basic right so bottoms up mead fans. 🙂
Now you can use your own honey, or store-bought honey, to make mead, a unique low-alcohol honey wine and one the world’s oldest fermented beverages. The kit is created exclusively for us by Elizabeth Ryan, an award-winning cider maker who has made appearances at the James Beard House. Just follow the simple directions and in four to six weeks you can enjoy your first batch.
