Danish toymaker Lego has unveiled its first minifigures with Hidden Disabilities Sunflower lanyards, which signal that the wearer has a non-visible condition such as autism or dementia. More
Czech architecture studio Čtyřstěn Architekti has completed House for Julia, a children's hospice in Brno designed as a "modern sanctuary" tucked within a large park. More
US studio SHED Architecture and Design has converted a former information centre into a colourful children's play space for a preschool at Seattle's Pike Place Market. More
A wood-clad acute-care facility modelled on a town forms part of University Children's Hospital, which Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed in Zurich. More
Visitors to the Replay event at the Design Museum during London Design Festival were able to participate in a game designed to make use of waste materials gathered from the city's workshops. More
Dezeen Showroom: children's furniture brand Wigiwama has introduced the Moon chair, a modular seat that can also be played with. More
Glue made from rice, crayons that draw on any surface and a stool that turns into an easel are among the unconventional craft equipment developed by Tokyo children's brand Woset for the next generation of artists and designers. More
Playful openings and colourful windows brighten the pixelated exterior of West Coast Kindergarten, completed by Chinese studio CLOU Architects near Hangzhou. More
German studio Alexander Poetzsch Architekturen has converted a former chocolate factory in Dresden into a youth club and assisted living centre for children. More
Pupils from The Piggott School in Reading, England, have won the Design Museum's Design Ventura competition with a card game that encourages children to learn about colours in their surroundings. More
Architecture practice Parallel Studio has punctured the white walls of this children's library in Zanzibar with small holes, providing natural ventilation and casting shadows across books inside. More
Scottish practices Loader Monteith and Studio SJM have completed The Harmeny Learning Hub outside Edinburgh, which is clad in larch to blend in with its woodland surroundings. More
A wooden structure will be left exposed throughout this children's daycare centre at the Technical University of Munich, on which Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has started construction in Germany. More
Belgian studio WE-S Architecten has created a nursery in the town of Aartselaar that takes the form of a nine-sided pavilion, intended to blend in with the surrounding park. More
American architecture studio NBBJ has created a series of interactive media displays in a California children's hospital to ease young patients' anxiety. More
Students from Soho Parish Primary School have designed a series of luminescent installations to light the streets of Soho, London. More
PLY+ and MPR Arquitectos have transformed a building at a former Catholic college into the School at Marygrove Elementary, filling it with colours and shapes that help spark "experimentation and exploration" among children. More
Sportswear brand Nike has launched the Nike Swoosh 1 trainer, a colourful Flyknit shoe for young children that is made from 80 per cent recycled materials and designed to feel like "cruising around barefoot". More
English practice Delve Architects has used joyful colours and natural, tactile materials to outfit a newly established kindergarten by the River Thames in east London that can be accessed via boat. More
Architecture studio Yukawa Design Lab has created a children's library overlooking Shirasagi Park in Sakai, Japan. More