Venture outside and there’s more than a chill in the air. If you liked the robot salt and pepper pots featured earlier in the week and are looking for another way to your gloves to keep your hands warm on a cold winter’s day, how about these retro robot hand warmers?
They work like those hand warmer pouches you may have seen: you click a metal disk to activate the heat and they are re-usable as you place can them into hot water to reactivate. The advantage is that these are shaped like cute robots meaning there’s far more incentive for kids (or adults) to carry them around.
The hand warmers cost £6.50 from Dollydagger
Do you want your kids to know their Alexander Calder from their Alexander Girard? Well, rather than giving them too long a lecture in the history of design, try this Kid Made Modern book. Written by Todd Oldham it uses mid-century designers as the starting base for 52 different craft projects for kids. It details how to make a cardboard fort inspired by Luis Barragan or window decorations in the style of Russel Wright or even decorate a few wooden spoons to create an alternative version of the Girard dolls.
The projects look so much fun you may find yourself joining in!
The book is for sale for £11.45 on Amazon
