Geography Fun

Have Some Winter Crafting Fun With These Science Snowflakes

The Franklin Institute has some innovative snowflake designs you can download and cut out featuring mostly notable scientists and a few science oriented patterns

Quickly Make a Map Poster From Any Urban Location on Earth

Figuregrounder by Hans Hack is a fun tool that lets you create a simple map poster in seconds.

How to Make Map Ornaments and Christmas Decorations

If you want to lend a geographic touch to your Christmas celebrations, check out these ingenious crafting ideas for making Christmas decorations and ornaments from old and printable maps.

Delicious Geography: Chocolate City Maps

The geometric designs of these chocolate bars are meant to evoke the urban patterns of Beijing, Paris, Berlin, and Barcelona.

Silly Physical Geography Puns

Enjoy a little laugh with these silly jokes that play on geography words.

Color to Your Heart’s Delight With These Historic Map Coloring Pages

If your favorite coloring subject is maps, here are some historic maps you can print out and color.

Match Scribbles to Features on the Earth

Land Lines is an experimental online tool that matches drawn gestures on the screen with landforms extracted from satellite imagery.

Now You Can Track Santa with ESA’s Updated Sentinel App

You can now use the European’s Space Agency’s updated Sentinel App to track Father Christmas as he travels around the world, delivering presents.

Test Your Topsy Turvy Geography Smarts with this Map Skills Game

‘Up Side Down’, tests your map acumen by either zooming in to a tilted location that you have to identify or placed disparate features together and quizzes you on which one is the answer to the question.

Sunday Maptinee: Build a Cork Map

For a fun map making idea, try a cork world map. This video from Parson Woodworking shows how making to make a map of the world using cork.

Pacific Northwest Topo Glassware

North Drinkware currently has two handmade drinking glasses showing the terrain of Mount Rainier and Mount Hood at the bottom of each style.

For the dapper geographer in your life, try this map bow tie from Etsy.

How to Find a Unique Gift for a Geographer

If you are looking for a unique gift idea for a geographer in your life beyond yet another atlas, globe, or wall map, find some ideas here for unique geographically themed gifts.