A group of young girls in Long Island City, Queens, have embarked on a fun and very artistic green project. The tweens, mostly aged 12, have taken old bicycle parts and have transformed them into jewelry – like bracelets, and charms. The girls participating in this project have been attending the recycling activities at the  the Green Girls summer institute run by the City Parks Foundation which is held in conjunction with Recycle-A-Bicycle. Kudos to these two organizations for coming up with such a creative …

Disney’s Create portal has launched an very cool new creative endeavor – a Group Wall that is essentially an online mosaic where thousands of fans can create and share original works of art. Users visiting the site can even watch as the Group Wall grows, as people add more and more artwork to it and the mosaic evolves into a portrait of Mickey Mouse.
But besides this cool new online mosaic project, Disney’s Create portal has a lot of other cool creativity tools worth checking out …

If you aren’t headed somewhere for the weekend, or maybe you’re just about to head out – why not print out this Color and Cut Mobile for your kids to work on as an activity this weekend. First they’ll need to color in the pieces on the page, then you’ll need to help them cut along the red dotted lines and punch a hole on the blue dots, then throw on some glitter and place a ribbon through the holes and tie all of the …

As much as Scrapbooking is fun, it can get really messy. Not to mention all the poor photos that usually get butchered in the process! Instead, you can try out ScrapPad which is a cool new iPad app that kids are sure to enjoy. Instead of having kids making a mess by building a “real”scrapbook made of glue, scissors, photos and papers, ScrapPad provides everything you need to create scrapbook style layouts on your iPad. Mix and match backgrounds, borders, stickers and embellishments from professionally …

Toilet training kids is a hurdle a all parents must deal with eventually and sometimes kids need a little extra help in order to encourage them to use the porcelain monster. Well Toilet Buddies may just be the trick to jump start that training. Toilet Buddies are stickers that can be placed added or removed based upon your child’s training.  Each sticker is that of an adorable animal such as Poo Poo Panda, Doo Doo Duck, Octo Poo, Leaky Frog and others. Depending on how …

Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio app for the iPad. It features everything you need to create your own art by using virtual crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and more. Once you’re done creating your masterpiece, you can save your artwork to iPhoto, share it via email or post it directly to twitter. The app features multitouch support so that you can pinch and rotate at the same time to manipulate stickers.

Hi-Tec Art has developed a way to use LEDs in your own art, without having to use a soldering iron. Just take the LED and stick it anywhere on their rubber mat and the LEDS will light up! You can create your own art, signs, pictures, maps, logos, and even use it to decorate clothing. There are even chess and checker games with LEDs fixed inside each piece so that they each light up. But one of Hi-Tec Art’s most coolest products is the Cube, …

Looking for a fun a creative project to do with your kids, especially if you happen to have a couple of useless or dead gadgets laying around your home. “62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer” by Randy Sarafan. The book features 62 innovative, unique and fun projects to make with everything from an old computer monitor to digital cameras, cell phones, CDs, hard drives and iPods. I’m sure you have a couple of these things laying around…There are also fashion focused projects to …

We have all tasted or eaten Play Doh at one time in our lives and don’t go denying it! So it was only a matter of time before they actually made it edible for real. Yummy Dough can be molded into designs, baked and then eaten.Yummy Dough is actually a multi-purpose toy! That combines two favorite childhood activities: creating designs with modeling dough and baking. Yummy Dough contains only food materials such as sugar,

The Kid Tough Doodler Light Sketcher from Fisher Price lets kid be creative by drawing with light! The very durable sketcher comes with a light pen for drawing, writing, and tracking. The drawings magically appear on the Sketcher and within 45 seconds, they’ll magically fade away. 5 light-transfer stencils with 25 pictures to copy come bundled with the system. Plus, the sketcher is super tough, and the whole body, including the screen, is durable enough to withstand tumbles. The Kid Tough Doodler Light Sketcher from …