Concept: Interactive conducting baton

I love to see how children respond to music. They start to dance on it instinctually or move their arms to conduct the music. I though it would be a great idea to create an interactive conducting baton that reacts on movement by producing tones of different instruments.

Concept: Sleevy's

These hand dolls are designed so that they can make sounds by using your fingers/opening or closing their mouth.

Concept: Sleepy hero's

These enlightening little creatures beat every alligator underneath your child's bed. Your kids can take them to their bed at night and they will lighten up like a light lamp. They are also very cuddly instead of those hard barely playaffordable night lamp creatures.

Concept: Little Soapies

I got the idea for this concept when I read my blogpost about the discussion with media students about what a book is. One of them said that one of the fun factors of a book was to collect and that it was tangible. Kids make up the most amazing stories with their dolls. Kids use their imagination to experiment with different scenes or review a experience. What if you added some kind of Sim element to these dolls? Making them interactive, let them build up relationships, let them experience with social interactions. I used an Ipad 2 for this concept, but this would also work on your computer with a camera.
So this is actually some kind of app, but you can collect dolls and play with them in a analog way.

Concept: The Beatlies

A mix between fantasy, sensory and constructionplay (and maybe even a little challange play, but not intended): The Beatlies. You can collect these dolls, they're one big family and they love to make noise. A Beatly is very cute and active and makes his own noise/beat. But when you put him together with other Beatlies, the fun really starts. Combining different Beatlies means combining different 'sounds' to make your own beat.

Concept: Mascerado

This is a mix between fantasy play and construction play: Mascerado

When we were celebrating christmas with the family of my boyfriend we were unwrapping presents. One of the presents had a nice shiny ribbon. Olivier (my 3 year old nephew) likes unwrapping presents more than the actual present and he loved the ribbon. When I saw the ribbon I wrapped it around him, giving him an imaginary tail. He loved it, he was runned around, or was running in circles, chasing his own tail (like puppies do).

Last summer I did the same thing with a big red towel. I came up with a simple 'game' I called Toro Toro. One had to hold the towel and the other ran at it yelling Toro Toro and had to try and touch the towel.
Later I put the cape around his neck and the next moment he was SuperOlivier, bringing presents to everyone and blowing dandelions for extra presentpowers.

It made me think about these simple cloaks and ribbons that create so much fun. What if you could create a set of simple 'clothings' that you can create your own fantasy creature with. For instance a SuperCat or a Tiger Toreador. It would be simple pieces of clothing that you can attach very easily and combine in a million ways to become anything you want!