Links Round Up – 2010.02.12
Healthy Child Healthy World :: Craftzine :: Ponoko
I didn’t have time to write anything other than giveaway posts on my dad blog this week, so here are three short blurbs about a few sites I took a quick look at. Hopefully I’ll have more time for longer reviews on my blog in the near future.
Healthy Child Healthy World
Healthy Child Healthy World is a nonprofit organization. Healthy Child educates dads and moms, supports protective policies, and engages communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. According to Healthy Child Healthy World, over 125 million Americans, especially children, face chronic disease and illness such as cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, ADD / ADHD, and learning and developmental disabilities. Evidence suggests environmental hazards and household chemicals are causing and contributing to many of these diseases.
Craftzine
If you’re looking for arts and crafts ideas, take a look at Craftzine. They offer projects with clear instructions and helpful photos:
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Fresh, imaginative content
New, original unique content offered daily, ranging from clear, detailed how-tos to interviews and book reviews, profiles of innovative crafters, free patterns, and more. Moms, dads, and kids get access to a wide variety of projects, from knitting to crochet, cooking to home décor, crafts for kids, pet projects, sewing, photography, paper crafts, electronic arts, and crafting with smart materials, like conductive thread. -
Make interactive connections
Step-by-step how-to videos, weekly podcasts, forums and search enable dads, moms, and kids to bring their project to life and connect with the community for techniques, help, and feedback. -
Save a buck
In the midst of a precarious economy where parents all cutting back and pinching proverbial pennies, CRAFT offers moms and dads smart, savvy solutions to re-imagine and re-invent old treasures. Recreate old indulgences on a dime, from luxe DIY spa treatments to fixing that delicious dish savored at the haute eatery.
Ponoko
Ponoko is a website where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers, and buyers meet to make practically anything. Ponoko hosts thousands of user generated product designs, ready to be customized and made into real things with the click of a mouse. With Ponoko, product designs can be priced instantly online. It is a green alternative and reduces warehousing and wastage because products are made locally (as close to the point of consumption as possible).
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All good links. Thanks for sharing :)
Hey these are good links, thank you. I write a blog that may help some of the dads out there…its a home improvement blog for any dad, doityourselfer, etc.
Luke Spencer
Pop’s Survival Guide
That Ponoko Idea is great. I haven’t heard of anything like that before. I visited them and, indeed, it seems really easy. Thanks for the find!
Gung Hay Fat Choy!!! and Happy Valentines Day. I know, two for the price of one ;) Enjoy the family :)
I really enjoyed the Craftzine link. I’m always on the lookout for new crafts to do at preschool.