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My Tree and Me } Modern Family Tree Charts

 

 

  

 
Via Design*Sponge I discovered these super cool and modern Family Tree Charts from My Tree and Me! It has inspired me to make my own... someday soon...

Taga - Stroller Bike combo from the Netherlands!

 
Leaping lizards, this urban bike stroller combo is too fresh (stroller can also be used alone without the bike) !!! Taga is a multifunctional urban vehicle, uniquely designed to suit the needs of today's parents and children. Taga combines the benefits of a premium stroller and a carrier bicycle to create a new transportation modality. Via Tangled and True.

Via Kim Vallee, I discovered the Funky Forest Interactive Ecosystem Insallation:Two Amsterdam artists, Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille of Zara Parade created Funky Forest in 2007. This is an interactive ecosystem where children used their body movements to influence the life of a forest and a river.

Kids can use their body or place pillow rocks and logs to divert the water flowing from the waterfall to the trees to keep them alive. It is playful and instructive since if the trees lack water, they would wither and die. Kids could press their bodies against the forest to build new trees. The shape of the tree will be influenced by the child body. When the eco-system flourishes, the kids are rewarded by the emergence of lovely flying creatures.

SO AWESOME! WISH WE HAD THIS HERE IN SEATTLE FOR KIDS PARTIES!

Funky Forest - Interactive Ecosystem from Theo Watson on Vimeo.