Monstrum's play structures will make you wish you were a kid again

Monstrum is a Danish company that designs and produces distinctly delightful playgrounds with a focus on artistic and architectural quality. Looking at the photos, it looks like the colorful wooden structures do a pretty good job of promoting imaginative play.

There's a giant slide shaped like a dragon, a massive eel wrapped around a lighthouse, and, my favorite, the large playground for Kristinebergs Slottspark in Stockholm. It features a pair of giant owls, huge mushrooms and flowers, stairs and ladders to climb on, and enormous creepy crawlers. I loved playgrounds as a kid. Now that I have two children, I have a renewed interest in them.

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Gilbert Legrand turns mundane stuff into delightful characters

Gilbert Legrand doesn't see the world like the rest of us. You see a scrubbing brush, he sees an Apache chief. You see a a pair of scissors, he sees smooching lovers. The French artist's imagination is so wild and unrestricted that he can turn the most ordinary objects into unexpected sources of delight. I just spent half an hour lurking on his website, and you should, too.

The Adorable Sculptures of Yen Yen Lo

These images are from a series of wall sculptures created by Yen Yen Lo . Here you can see her intricately textured ceramic pieces, looking downright adorable. Yen Yen Lo's eye for the unique and whimsical is delightful. Apparently they are not intended for kids under 16. Fifteen-year-olds cannot be trusted with fragile stuff. Get them a Funko Pop instead.

The Salimbaa

Here's a strange tribal instrument I never heard of before now. Originally from the Tinananon tribe of southern Philippines, the bowl-shaped Salimbaa is made of metal and wood, has 30 bronze wound strings, and is played using two small sticks. Caleb Byerly, who makes lost/extinct musical tools in his North Carolina workshop, has an interesting story on how he made his first Salimbaa. WATCH: More details about Caleb and his craft over at Our State .

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