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News and Culture Five

News Round-Up Nov. 15: The NYT Kids Book Review, Bad Messages In Good Movies and Moms Craving Smartphones

What we’re reading today:

 

1. The New York Times parenting blog recommends the New York Times Children’s Book Review. This would be ridiculous except for the fact that we actually do have complete trust in the NYT Children’s Book Review, so a fair recommendation.

2. Disney acquired Babble. What will this mean?? We’re thinking we’re going to get more Catherine Connors in fun and silly get-ups.

3. Does being a mom make you want a smartphone? From what we’ve observed, yes.

4. Bad lessons from good movies. We knew the princess-y ones, but hadn’t thought about the unconventional play thing and the perhaps unfair optimism in Wall-E.

5. Did you see that awesome 3D chalk drawing of the Lego Terra Cotta warriors? Here’s how they did it:

From Bunchlanders

Stealthy, Sneaky Rock Art Part 2 and a Lego Creation

If you live in the Bloor and Ossington area in Toronto, keep an eye out for these:

Bunch dad Jason Cavener was inspired by this post and decided that he and his daughter should do something similar. We hope to stumble upon one or two of these during our commute to and from the office. (Hopefully not literally!)

And taking up our Lego Challenge, 6-year-old Jonah fashioned this space ship-looking creation sans Lego kit and instructions. Thanks to Bunch mom Ali for sending it in!

Want to share your Bunchy creations? Email meghan@bunchfamily.ca

march break

Steathly, Sneaky, Rocky Street Art

Add a little Banksy to your March Break

Illustrator and author Aaron Zenz has some seriously artistic kids. When Zenz and his family watched the Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, 10-year-old Gracie announced she was going to be a street artist too. (Zenz then had to explain why we can’t just go around vandalizing everything.)

But the Zenz kids were inspired! So they came up with something that, while not doing damage to anyone’s property, would be, “something artsy. Something stealthy. Something public.” And so they gathered a whole bunch of rocks and washed them. Then three Z-kids and the Z-dad each picked a colour and painted the rocks with various expressions of various levels of zaniness.

And then they set out to take their art public.