Play is essential to positive human development, but kids are playing less and less, says psychologist David Elkind. What can we do to build a new culture of play?

100 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself

"...we study alternative rationalities, fun and frivolity, beauty and aesthetics, play and gifts, any of the wide variety of aspects of technology and economy that are routinely ignored by the research community out of fear of not seeming "serious" enough, and that at the same time form an intimate part of both everyday life and the post-industrial production of value..."

Beautiful games...

"The finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.... ...and bringing as many persons as possible into the play."

"A reader named Chrissy wrote to me and asked how we entertain Isabella without TV or video games..."