The Kid Should See This How are hard candies created with messages written within their cores? See how this sugary treat, called ‘rock candy’ in the UK, is poured, pulled, assembled, rolled, stretched, hardened, and cut into pieces […]
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The Kid Should See This A shepherd lives alone in a secluded valley, accompanied only by his flock of sheep and his loyal dog. The shepherd has a remarkable ability: he shears the sheep and creates clouds with the wool, […]
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The Kid Should See This The final draft of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech famously did not include the phrase “I have a dream.” Having worked on the August 28, 1963 speech with a […]
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The Kid Should See This The Sámi people have specialized in semi-nomadic reindeer herding inside the Arctic Circle for generations. In this clip from Reindeer Family & Me, via BBC Earth, wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan takes his first […]
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The Kid Should See This First sketched in with light pencil work, and then further defined with color pencils, pens, and markers, a drinking glass quickly becomes real. This hyperrealistic drawing of a glass was created by YouTube […]
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The Kid Should See This How do goats climb impossible-looking cliffsides? How do they seem to defy gravity? This CGI animation from Léo Brunel, Juan Olarte, and Corentin Yvergniaux of the French animation collective MegaComputeur turns this talent […]
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The Kid Should See This “Mosaics are sort of like jigsaw puzzles—in reverse.” They can be made with pieces of construction paper, stone pieces, glass or tiles called tesserae (pronounced TESS-er-eye). This Met Kids video from The Metropolitan Museum of […]
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The Kid Should See This Fairy lights, cloudy skies, and familiar characters magically dance across the darkened room. An illuminated tower featuring famous Studio Ghibli scenes in stained glass is topped with an orrery of sorts–a moving mechanical […]
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The Kid Should See This When the indoor rabbit sleeps, the rabbit dreams of eating. Pipkin rabbit eats, runs, and jumps in his dream, and his sleeping body does the same. After the indoor rabbit falls asleep, we […]
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The Kid Should See This Kintsugi master and teacher Showzi Tsukamoto demonstrates The Art of Kintsugi (golden joinery), a traditional Japanese method of restoration that honors an object’s history rather than hiding it. Tsukamoto uses Maki-e, a ‘sprinkled […]
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