There’s a bit of an unwritten law among Lego geeks that gluing a kit together is taboo —unless you’re creating something for use in Legoland, where presumably, large scale models that could be pulled apart would pose a danger to visitors, not to mention a lot of maintenance work and ...

Every summer I run a History through the Creative Arts camp for homeschoolers in my area. It started as a way to do history with my own children that was based on something other than war and politics. I find it easier to relate periods of history to what the ...

This amazing Lego wall is the work of Denmark-based Lene Rønsholt Wille. The circular wall, called  “Metaphorical Horizons,” took six weeks and 270,000 white LEGO blocks. It is located in the central hall of the World Trade Center in Amsterdam. There is an excellent 75 image photo story of the construction ...

This amazing LEGO wall is the work of Denmark-based Lene Rønsholt Wille. The circular wall, called  “Metaphorical Horizons”, took six weeks and 270,000 white LEGO blocks. It is located in the central hall of the World Trade Center in Amsterdam. There is an excellent 75 image photo story of the construction ...

With three kids in their prime Lego years, we have amassed a considerable collection of bricks. However, while we do have some motorized components, we don’t have any illuminated gear. I know Lego does sell an LED kit, but we haven’t invested in one and, at least from what I ...

Have you heard of Gogo’s Crazy Bones? If not, and you have school-aged kids, I suspect you’ll know all about Mosh, Hiraku, B-Boy and hundreds of other characters before too long. Although they’ve been around since the ’90s (310 million have been sold worldwide) Gogo’s are currently being re-launched across ...

You have kids, which means know about GOO. Goo is a big part of childhood. It is a consistency that runs through and across and down our children’s lives (and bodies). At times unidentified substances are found oozing out of holes in noses or worse! The greatest of goo has been ...

As blessed as we have been to now have both a son and a daughter these memories won’t completely ever go away.

Geocaching tends to have quite a few electronic helpers, based on the fact that it’s an electronic sport. Letterboxing, however, the old fashioned analog version of geocaching, has usually been a pen-and-paper kind of activity. I recently reviewed BoxFinder, an app for letterboxing clues. I have since found a second ...

My wife and I took the kids to Canada’s Wonderland last weekend to kickstart the summer vacation season. I was a little worried about how this was going to turn out. Wonderland is located just a few minutes north of Toronto, where G20 protesters had been busy the night before ...