Elmo’s World - Birthdays, games & More First up, it’s birthday time! Elmo knows everyone loves birthdays and here takes a close-up look at the celebration. The zany Mr. Noodle gives us a gift-wrapping lesson, but first gets caught up in the wrapping paper! Then we join a son and his father in their kitchen as they go through the steps of baking a birthday cake for mom. After that, we watch as Elmo is visited by a chatty birthday cake who playfully admits that being a cake is in fact, “a piece of cake!”

Who can think of all this birthday fun without games coming to mind? Elmo loves to play games and here he explores all his favorites with his Sesame Street friends. Mr. Noodle joins in the fun with a jump rope lesson, of course, with a little silliness mixed in. Two Sesame Street kids teach each other ‘where is thumpkin’ in both English and Spanish. Finally, Elmo uses his imagination to become a basketball star where he announces, “Elmo got game!”

Pets are last up on this fun-filled home video. First, Mr. Noodle tries to play fetch with a goldfish and a hamster before Barkely the dog shows up. Then, kids explain how they play with their own pets - lizards, cats and guinea pugs included. Last up, Elmo gets a real sense of what being a pet is like when he imagines himself as a fish, a hamster, and a bird!
Customer Review: What kid doesn’t love Elmo?
Of course my son loves this video!! He LOVES Elmo. My only complaint is that he gets upset after watching it because it’s not his birthday, so I don’t have cake with candles to offer him.

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Click To Play mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | 3gp | 3g2 | blip | youtube | itunes | pdf This week I teamed up with Xander Hudson to make PCBs. Besides being pretty, making your own printed circuit boards is fun and you can have a prototype board ready in a few hours. First you need a design. There are a bunch of timer circuits in the latest issue of Make: that are begging for circuit boards. There are lots of designs online at places like discovercircuits.com Eagle CAD has a bit of a steep learning curve, but it’s got a library of parts that you can drag and drop onto the board that make getting everything the right size and proportion easy. If you don’t want to design your own circuit, you can download all the source files, including a pdf, and print them out on a laser printer out to make the Make: Light. - Link (Zip File) Also, make sure to download the pdf that goes along with this podcast that includes a great article by Andrew Argyle that includes material lists and step by step instructions. - Link Weekend Projects is sponsored by Microchip Technology. Check out their seminars and the Microchip Masters Conference. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

File Shredder
Completely shred files so that they can’t be recovered.

No Fifth s for us
Thank god we don’t have Fifth’s after all. It turns out that Sam is allergic to Penicillin. His rash is really nasty, but he’s not itching. The Children’s Benedryl the doctor suggested we pick up should keep him pretty mellow, so it shouldn’t bother him too much. I found it unusual that the doctor gave […]

Flat screen TV quilt
TVs are getting so big that they need quilts made for them when they get cold… actually, it’s an entry in the Sew Useful contest, a TV cover to keep the dust off… Here’s how to make your own - Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Parent Dish Sleepover for Thursday, June 21
Filed under: Blogs, SleepoverSummer vacation gives me newfound respect for homeschooling families! Here are a few homeschooling blogs for you to check out. Waltzing Matilda has posted an inspiring list of what her kids are reading this summer. Patience of Homespun, has a great post about how she home schools, and why she’s not choosing […]

Say hi to Gareth
Everyone please welcome Gareth Branwyn to the MAKE blog, you may know him from many of his fantastic articles in MAKE (print) - and now he’s here on the MAKE blog too! Pictured here, Gareth on the left, I’m in the center, Bre is on the right. Gareth came out swinging, check out his posts! 1930s Japanese robot - Link.Hamster wheel steam train - Link.R2-S2 (Steam R2-D2) - Link.Barebones Arduino on a breadboard - Link.HOW TO - Make an aux-in for the Bose SoundDock - Link.HOW TO - Tell Temperature with Crickets - Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Safari 3 Public Beta
A Mac staple moves to Windows. Whether it’s worth switching is an open question.

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