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Nurture Your Inner Inventor With The Extraordinaires
Image: The Creativity Hub. Used with permission. Got a budding inventor in your house? Brought to you by the folks who make Rory’s Story Cubes, The Extraordinaires Design Studio is a fantastic game...
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A Place to Show Off Your Awesome Lego Builds
Lotsa Lego It’s no secret that we love Lego here at GeekDad, so when one of our beloved readers left a comment on a post about starting up a gallery for all of our builds, we thought it was a fabulous...
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Disruptus from Funnybone Toys — Creativity-Boosting Game Not Just for Adults
I’m always on the lookout for games or books that help inspire some creativity in my children, and I’ve recently stumbled upon an interesting game that, although more likely to be pegged as a game for...
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Caine’s Global Cardboard Challenge 2013
Caine and filmmaker Nirvan This coming Saturday, join thousands of people all over the world in the 2nd annual celebration of cardboard creativity in aid of the Imagination Foundation. Set up after the...
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Review: Ask Yourself 344 Questions
I love being a technology writer. The job requires me to stay up on the latest/greatest tech (as much as possible given the exponential growth of new products and services) and it allows me to work...
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Get Creative and Make a Monster with Stefan G. Bucher
Stefan G. Bucher certainly knows how to stay busy. A few weeks back, I wrote about his new book, 344 Questions, and how I’d discovered it by being a follower of his previous work with 100 Days of...
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Steve Jobs and His Legacy of Inspiration
Image: apple.com You’ve probably already read a lot of posts like this one today and will no doubt read many more. I haven’t read any yet, as I wanted to collect my thoughts on the sad death of Steve...
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Sweety High Aims to Be the Fame of Social Networks
It can be tough for a kid to experience community on the Internet. All but 5% of teens are online, and most are using social media platforms. However, for all the success experienced by websites like...
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Review: Rory’s Story Cubes: Actions and Voyages
Rory's Story Cubes: Actions. Image: Gamewright The original version of Rory’s Story Cubes, done by The Creativity Hub (home of Rory O’Connor and Anita Murphy), has been around for a while. I reviewed...
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Creating a Digital Art Gallery
A typical morning's creative session Kids seem to have an endless supply of creativity. Drawing, painting, writing, building, coloring, storytelling – anything can spark it off and it can lead to...
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DIY.org is an Online Refrigerator for Kids’ Artwork
DIY.org homepage Almost as soon as I’d finished my “Creating a Digital Art Gallery” post that ran earlier today, I wondered why there was no online community geared towards children which allowed them...
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KlabLab Provides a Soundtrack for Creative Learning
Musician Dave Haberman helps students in southern California write a collaborative song (source: KlabLab) Imagine a class full of teenagers toward the end of the school year. Their topic for the day...
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A Start Up Trek – Learning How To Inspire Creativity
Notes on Creativity. Photo by jeanbaptisteparis Creative Commons license. I am starting a new public-access prototyping lab in Huntsville, Alabama, called MindGear Labs, based on the fab lab model....
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Kids Will Create Masterpieces With the Tabletop Moviemaking Studio
Kickstarter abounds with fun games, music, art projects, and more. My latest discovery on the site is the Tabletop Moviemaking Studio by Brick Maier. If your kids are creative types, help them create...
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Introducing The Storymatic Kids!
The Storymatic Kids! A cool way to tell stories with kids. (Image: Brian Mooney) A few months back, I wrote about a very cool creative writing/creativity tool/parlor game called The Storymatic. It’s...
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Creativity in the Membrane, Creativity in the Brain
What does creative thought look like in the brain? With the willing brains of creative people and tools like fMRI that can look inside these brains in real-time, you’d think it would an easy question...
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Test Your Creativity With a Single Word
Image: Flickr/Glassesyes View cc license Get ready to think of a creative verb. Now, what action comes to mind when you look at the picture that heads this article? When you saw this chair, did you say...
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Following LEGO Kit Instructions Shown to Reduce Creativity
Image: Flickr/Inthepotter’shands cc license In a community of LEGO-building parents, it’s only a matter of time before someone bemoans the idea that “when we were little” we all had trunks of loose...
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Studies Show Hufflepuff Key to Creativity
Creativity is when Van Gogh suddenly decides to slather paint in raised ridges. Or when John Coltrane realizes there’s room outside the chord changes. We illustrate creativity with a lightbulb blinking...
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Geeks, Music, and Lyrics
Image by Keith (TheBigTog) (This was my very first post on GeekMom waaaay back when. It eventually ended up on Wired as well. I’m still writing and performing all my geeky songs!) Take, take, take me...
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