1. Vintage Carnival Circus Clown Bicycles

    Vintage Carnival Circus Clown Bicycle

    Vintage Carnival Circus Clown Bicycle

    Trick bikes from the big top of the 1930s, avail­able at Mod­ern 50. Where do they find this stuff?

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  2. Free Audio Stories for Kids

    Vintage Records for Children

    Lis­ten­ing to audio­books before bed­time is nightly rit­ual that my chil­dren really enjoy (Ann Twigg is prac­ti­cally a mem­ber of the fam­ily). Though obvi­ously not a replace­ment for tra­di­tional read­ing, it’s a great sup­ple­men­tal tool for build­ing lis­ten­ing skills, vocab­u­lary and atten­tion span.

    I recently dis­cov­ered Kid­die Records Weekly, which offers free audio stream­ing of clas­sic children’s records from the 1940s and 1950s. I haven’t got­ten a chance to put it into the rota­tion yet, but sim­ply brows­ing the amaz­ing col­lec­tion of cover art has been a real treat!

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  3. Vintage Wooden Toys From An Unusual Source

    Ko Verzuu ADO Speelgoed Wooden Toys

    Ko Verzuu ADO Speelgoed Wooden Toys

    Dutch designer Ko Verzuu and his team at ADO made these gor­geous wooden toys (as well as many oth­ers) dur­ing the 1920s and early 1930s in Apel­doorn, Nether­lands. ADO was a bit dif­fer­ent than the typ­i­cal toy com­pany, mainly in that the toys were made by tuber­cu­lo­sis patients in the sana­to­rium Berg and Bosch. The work­shop was part of a pro­gram intended to tran­si­tion the patients back into pro­duc­tive mem­bers of soci­ety as they recovered.

    The Con­sumer Prod­uct Safety Com­mis­sion would have a field day with that one!

    On a side note, it appears as though Ko Verzuu’s son has begun build­ing exact repli­cas of his father’s leg­endary toys. No word on avail­abil­ity, but they are fun to look at!

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  4. Hand-Stitched Teepee

    handmade teepee

    I just came across these won­der­ful teepees via the papier mache blog. Made from hand-stitched recy­cled yacht sail­coth and poplar stick poles, each comes com­plete with hand-stitched army blanket/sailcloth reversible ground sheet and draw­string bag.

    Love the flower window!

    Avail­able as a lim­ited edi­tion from Greg Hat­ton.

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  5. Lego Meets Paper With Help From MUJI

    Craft Paper and Punch Lego From Muji

    Craft Paper and Punch Lego From Muji

    Such a sim­ple yet inge­nious idea, punch­ing Lego-size holes in paper! Pol­ish up on your Japan­ese (or let Google Trans­late take care of it) and head over to MUJI Japan, where the paper and block sets will be made avail­able on Nov. 27th. No word yet on avail­abil­ity at US and Euro­pean MUJI Locations.

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