Peeps costumes for the Pepsi Peeps challenge
If I had a Peeps costume for my one-year-old toddler, I’d be walking her around the block all day long, sipping on the sweet sweet nectar of Pepsi Peeps soda.
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Strava map of chasing a toddler and pre-schooler around a playground for 15 minutes
Strava’s GPS tracking feature is so much fun—especially when you forget that it’s on.
Unusual Little People sets
Little People has sets for The Office, Masters of the Universe, and WWE! The princess castle will never be the same again.
Ideas for paratrooper toy fun
In my Christmas stocking from my dad was a little Christmas paratrooper toy. (My daughters also got a paratrooper too). A little plastic figure with a tiny parachute. Those are always fun. I searched Youtube for how people have had fun with these little guys. A few videos stood out a bit. Video 1: use …
The awesome Christmas ninja toys from Oriental Trading
A great Christmas surprise this year? Christmas ninjas! With these fun little guys around the house, you’ll find everyone asking, “Hey, what happened to the Christmas cookies?” Ninjas. These little guys bearing peppermint weapons will surely bring a fresh breath of air to your Christmas. They could cause all sorts of mischief around your house. …
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Snow during social isolation can be nice
Whenever snow falls in April, it always is a bit of a surprise. We tend to think of April as a spring month. The temperatures start warming up. And then boom. Snow. Snow? Really? When there isn’t a global pandemic keeping everyone at home, I can understand how most people don’t want to see the …
Stay at home challenge: Photograph all the door knobs in your residence
Lately everyone has been sharing creative projects to do at home. Usually they are cute like putting a teddy bear in your front window. But how about a quirky project? Photograph all the doorknobs in your residence. Ever pay attention to your doorknobs? They are so critical and intimate. To open a door, you need …
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Social distancing your Little People toys
My three-year-old daughter made a dance floor with our Picasso magnet tiles. Then she took all her Little People figures; and put them onto the dance floor. I love her creativity. “But wait!” I warned, “they are not practicing social distancing.” I took each figure and put them exactly one square apart from each other—as …
Memorizing Pancake Robot lyrics
“Pancake Robot” by Parry Gripp is such a fun song to memorize the lyrics. Anytime you have pancakes, you can bust out some lyrics from this song. Like this little verse: The pancake robot is coming to townHe’s mixing up the batter and he’s laying it downButtermilk, blueberry, chocolate chip50 million pancakes he’s gonna flip …
Spotify family mix to combine everyone’s favorite songs in your house
This is so cool of Spotify to do! A family mix. Last year, we signed up for the family plan on Spotify. When we were all on my plan, the love of Disney soundtracks by my three-year-old daughter was screwing up my song recommendations. Everything in my recco list was being dominated by Disney. Plus, …
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Using Machine Learning techniques on babies
Programs like deepart.io are so fascinating. You give the program a photograph and an artwork, and then it transforms the photograph to look like the style of the art. A photo from my parents wedding combined with Juan Gris’ “Portrait of Picasso” generates a cool result. That’s a deep learning algorithm called neural style transfer. …