12 of the best geeky-cool printable Valentine’s cards: Star Wars, Minecraft, emojis, FNAF, science and more.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, always love looking for fun printable geeky Valentine’s cards for those kids less into doily hearts, and more into zombies, Star Wars, Minecraft, and outer space. Here are 12 of our favorite geeky-cool printable Valentines...
LumiKids Snow: Free app of the week
Welcome to our new weekly series on Cool Mom Tech that introduces you to some of our favorite free apps to download to your devices. Because as much as we love all the useful, fun, and entertaining apps we recommend here, admittedly we love them even more when...
Kids’ music for Valentine’s Day: Heart Beats is ultimate cool compilation, nothing sappy.
One of the sweetest things you can share with your kids on the 14th, well, in my opinion, is this brand-new compilation album of kids’ music for Valentine’s Day called Heart Beats, featuring a whole bevy of artists whose music we’ve loved for years,...
Star Wars bouquets! Can we say this is the Valentine’s gift you’ve been looking for?
Roses are red, violets are blue, but neither will put a smile on your Star Wars-loving valentine’s face like one of these quirky Star Wars Valentines bouquets from our favorite geeky shop, Think Geek. Just imagine handing your beloved a bouquet that includes...
Two fun, creative, and (mostly) free apps for kids to keep them engaged when they’re stuck indoors.
If you’re tearing through the list of snow day activities to keep the kids occupied when you’re stuck indoors, allow us help you with two beautifully designed, really fun new apps we’ve discovered from Seedling. As in, the same company whose...
Snow Day by Bleu: The perfect kids’ music download for those of us hit with another snowpocalypse
With both my editors buried in winter storm Jonas and at least six inches outside my own suburban Boston window, it seems apt that today’s kids’ music download be one that sings of every school kids’ favorite day: A snow day. Snow Day by...
David Bowie’s Kooks covered by Elizabeth Mitchell: Kids’ music download of the week
We were all saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of David Bowie earlier this week whose voice so many of us group up listening to on the radio or on our favorite albums and cassette tapes. I know that many of us at Cool Mom Tech immediately turned on David...
Rooms by Tim Kubart: Kids’ music download of the week
Sundays are a great day to turn up the tunes and dance around the house. And to help ward off winter’s chill or maybe break up a long day indoors, our download of the week is a boogie-filled number called Rooms off the Grammy-nominated album Home by Tim Kubart....
Snow Days by Trip Shakespeare: Kids’ music download that’s not actually a kids’ music download
I’ve retired our collection of Christmas music for another year, but there’s one song that has been such a favorite wintery tune on my playlist for the past–gulp–25 years, that it will remain on heavy rotation until the first days of spring....Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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