Sunday, May 28, 2006

Darren of Problogger is sending out positive vibes by asking fellow bloggers to name our "blog crushes". A blogger that we admire or whose blog we like. Of all blogs focused on parenting, I have 2 that tops my...

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Monday, May 22, 2006

New Game!


It's been a while since I posted a new game, but in keeping with my earnest desire to really focus the site on kids' creativity, I had an idea for a new one recently, so I posted it yesterday -- it's a drawing game. I guess I must have run out of creativity when it came to naming it, though, because I just called it "The Shapes Game."

You can try it here, if you like:

www.inklesstales.com/games/shapes.shtml


Comprised of simple squares, circles, triangles and rectangles, colored in primary colors of red, blue and yellow, I'm hoping it will inspire kids with the simple kind of imagination-sparkers the original Colorforms (TM) sets did. Here's hoping! -e

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Stories, Poems and Pictures for Kids on the Web

Stories, Poems and Pictures for Kids on the Web

Fanny Doodle: Who is she, anyway?

Just for those who are wondering

about the name of this blog.

There are several of these Fanny Doodle poems on Inkless Tales.

Here's the original. You can view the movie at
http://www.inklesstales.com/stories/fanny.shtml


Fanny Doodle’s Poodle



Fanny Doodle shaved her poodle
Then he shivered with the cold.
So Fanny Doodle knit a sweater
Trimmed with silver, and with gold.
Fanny Doodle’s poodle pouted,
Turned away his bone and bowl.
So Fanny Doodle used her noodle
Fed him cake and apple strudel
Til back his fur grew, curls and all.

© 2005, Elizabeth Bushey

To write.

Lots of people complain about writer's block, but I have to admit I haven't had that problem. I can't say that everything I've ever written has been worthy of keeping -- but I haven't ever sat in front of the keyboard going "Dang! Nothing to say."

Of course, there's always something else for me to do. If I don't have anything to write at the moment, I can go paint something.

If there's nothing to paint, I can go play my guitar.

So in that regard, I'm lucky.

Whether it's all good enough? Ah, there's the question.

I think it is. By good enough, I mean good enough to throw out there for others to decide for themselves whether they like it or not.

Some of it I like better than others. None of it makes me cringe, like the stuff I still keep tucked away. Much of it I can tell I did a while ago -- because I'm always looking to get better at whatever I'm doing.

I don't think I'm done.

But good enough? I think we're all good enough.

That's the message I'd like to send with Inkless Tales. I want children to try things for themselves, too.

I'm not sure the site is sending that message clearly enough. That's my next goal with the site. To send that message: try this for yourself, too.

-E

Inkless Tales

Inkless Tales started out because I had a lot of ideas and nowhere to put them. Also, I had the skill set, by chance: I could draw by hand, I could draw digitally. I knew Photoshop, and I knew web development. I could also write.

What's more, at the time -- March, 2001 -- there wasn't a whole lot out there for kids.

So I put it there.

And it's true: if you build it, they WILL come.

:-)