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Comment by wwalker2112

10 days ago

A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc...

I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.

I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.

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wonger_  10 days ago

Neat, I'm also planning a lil newspaper hobby project. I'm curious:

- what paper size are you going to use? Like full broadsheet size or zine size?

- and how many pages of content do you think you'll have, given that size?

- black and white, or color?

- where will you get all your content? Designing puzzles, experiments etc seems like it would take a long time

- do you recommend any printeries?

- anywhere we can follow your progress? I'd be super excited to see a first mockup

FWIW, as a web guy, I'm leaning towards designing my content in HTML + CSS and exporting to PDF at a certain page size, probably using playwright.

  • wwalker2112  10 days ago

    I'm in the process of figuring out fulfillment and shipping right now. I just got some samples from https://www.newspaperclub.com/ and they were pretty impressive. My other option is a local printing shop in my town. I'm visiting them later this week so we will see.

    It will be in color. Broadsheet (350mmx500mm). 12 pages. Color.

    I've been designing puzzles, etc.. myself. Using claude and chatgpt to brainstorm fun games/expirements/etc...

    I don't have the site up yet. Waiting to get the first batch so I have some IRL images to add to the site.

jt2190  10 days ago

These don’t already exist?

https://cricketmedia.com/childrens-magazines

https://rangerrick.org/

  • wwalker2112  10 days ago

    I was looking for a old school newspaper style that is focused on games, puzzles, math, and outdoor activities. At least that is what I'm going for.

  • Loughla  10 days ago

    I wish ranger Rick existed for teens though. My kids loved that when they were smaller, but now we have to spend a shit ton of effort to find teen appropriate content of a similar nature (hah!).

  • renyicircle  10 days ago

    Compared to the usual tools for the tools for the tools to help you program programming tools, this is a pretty good thing to have more of