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Morton Subotnick’s Pitch Painter App Review

Posted by Brande on May 9, 2013
in Education, Fun Stuff, Kids Stuff, Reviews, School, Technology/Electronics

Morton Subotnick’s Pitch Painter App is an award winning app that is available in your iTunes store for iPad with an iOS of 5.0 or later. Finger Painting and Music combine 2 things that your 3 to 5 year old love to do! Without the Mess!

First choose the regional instruments you’d like to play. The regions are Europe and North America, West Africa, Middle East, or East Asia. Each region gives you 3 different instruments to choose from.

For example – Europe and North America has a Clarinet, Trumpet, and Piano. When the clarinet is selected it will give you a tone of a clarinet, then just finger paint and the tone will follow your child’s finger. Then change to a trumpet and get another color and sound. Your child can record their music and play it back. There are options to play the music backwards or upside down!

I really like this app, it’s soothing to the ears and fun! My daughter really enjoying recording her finger painting music and playing it back for us to hear. It’s a big hit in our house! I think your pre-school aged child will like it too!

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Home Depot – Free Kids Workshops

Posted by Brande on May 2, 2013
in Education, Family Stuff, Free Stuff, Fun Stuff, Kids Stuff, Kids Toys, Uncategorized

Looking for a fun and free activity for your kids!? Check out Home Depot’s FREE kids Workshops! The next workshop is focused on the upcoming movie “EPIC” and your child will be building an herb planter! It’s on May 4th! Home Depot also has 2 more upcoming workshop’s in June & July!

So far, my daughter built a bird feeder, here she is painting it.

She received her very own Home Depot apron, pin for her build, and a certificate! She is very proud of her accomplishments!

Head here or go to Home Depot’s site for more information!

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KinderStuff

Posted by 278Wife on April 30, 2013
in Baby Products, Children's Clothing, Clothing, Eco Friendly Products, Kids Stuff, Reviews

Finding quality, organic clothes for babies is not always an easy venture. KinderStuff makes shopping easy and affordable. They sell exclusively online to cut out the middleman and keep costs low. All of their products are 100% organic, non-toxic, and use only high-quality materials. Did I mention how fashionable their clothes are too? They offer adorable, vibrant colored bodysuits, long sleeve shirts and t-shirts in sizes 1-2 months through 18-24 months.

The Eddy the Teddy bodysuit I received was incredibley soft. The stitching around all of the seams was very smooth and of very high quality. The only thing I didn’t like was the tag was on the inside side of the bodysuit. It rubbed a little bit, but once I cut it off, it no longer irritated. The snaps on the bottom were very easy to open and close. The material was very stretchy and moved easily with the body. The neckline was especially stretchy and easy to pull over the head. I love that their clothes are machine washable and none of the color faded after washing. The fit was perfect, the colors were great, and the feel was ultra soft. What a great product!

Not only are their clothes 100% organic, they are also eco-friendly. Another great feature of KinderStuff is their Hand-Me-Downs process. When your kids have outgrown their KinderStuff clothes, you can send them back, with free shipping, and receive a discount code for future purchases. The returned Hand-Me-Downs are then either donated to a child charity, sold as “Hand-Me-Downs,” or recycled. What a great idea! KinderStuff is a great place to buy high quality, affordable, 100% organic clothes for your baby. You won’t be disappointed!

To see all of their products go to their website:

https://www.kinderstuff.us/

Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

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Tap the Cat – Reading Eggs Review

Posted by Brande on April 29, 2013
in Downloads, Education, Fun Stuff, Kids Stuff, Parenting, Reviews, School, Uncategorized

Continuing with the Eggy apps, here is Tap the Cat – Reading Eggs Review. Available for iPad (ISO 4.0 or later)

Reading 1

When you begin and tap the play button the balloons pops.

reading 2

Then you are brought to this screen,to choose which of the 9 activities you’d like to do. There’s writing, letters, smart quiz, speak and listen, making words, draw and paint, time to rhyme, vocabulary, and sight words.

Writing – A piece of lined paper and a word are on the page, your child will then trace the word and asked if they like their writing.

Letters – You find the matching letter (only 4 are given at a time). They tell you the letter as well as the sound that letter makes. Great for beginners!

Smart Quiz – listen to the question and find the matching picture. Example “Carrot begins with c. Which on begins like carrot” the pictures would be a lion, rabbit and cat. Once you choose cat you get a little tune. The questions do change to keep you child involved. The next example question is Ï look like a mouse, but I am bigger. Who am I?” The pictures are a chicken, rat and frog.

Speak & Listen – This is a recording one. Your given a written word and asked to tap to record yourself saying the word. Then you can play it back and are asked if you said the correct word.

Making Words – A picture of a word is shown (Example – Pan), the app will then sound out the word Pan and you are given blank tiles to fill in the word out of 4 letters.

Draw and Paint – Is just that, you pick a picture and color it.

Time to Rhyme – A figure of a house is given with this phrase “On the house I see a _____”, above the house are 3 pictures a mouse, hat, and ear of corn. Then you move the mouse to the house and get a congratulations.

Vocabulary – Tap the word to hear it and then match it to the picture.

Sight Word – Help the bunny get home. In this repetition app, the bunny jumps on about 6 carrots all the same word to get home. Another great one for the beginners.

I really like this series of apps, lots of learning and not realizing it. There’s one more! Look for my last Eggy app – Spelling!

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Lowe’s Build & Grow – Free Activity for Kids!

Posted by Brande on April 25, 2013
in Education, Family Stuff, Free Stuff, Fun Stuff, Gardening, Handmade Items, Kids Stuff, Kids Toys, Uncategorized

I’m always on the hunt for free and fun activities for my family. Lowe’s has a fantastic program called Build and Grow. On my daughter’s first visit she received a Lowe’s apron, a hammer & protective goggles to borrow and her project. When she/we finished the project we returned the hammer and protective goggle and she was given a certificate and a patch for her apron! She loves the iron on patches that she earned and loves to show them off on her apron.

So, far we’ve built 2 monster trucks and a “Croods” the movie planter. Our next build is a sweetheart frame on May 11th.

Click here or head over to Lowes.com and search for Build & Grow to sign up at your nearest Lowe’s for the next free activity for kids!

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RIDEMAKERZ ~ BUILD YOUR RIDE

Posted by Professor on April 22, 2013
in Family Stuff, Fun Stuff, Gift Ideas, Kids Stuff, Kids Toys, Uncategorized

New from RIDEMARKERZ, it’s XTREME CUSTOMZ! Have a great time building and customizing XTREME Customz rides!

Watch them in ACTION!

Get ready to build and customize the toy car or “RIDE” of your dreams. Choose from a wide range of body styles (about the size of a cell phone) and interchangeable, snap-on parts to transform your RIDE from mild to wild. With so many choices, it’s easy to Mix. Match. Make it Your Own.

XTREME CUSTOMZ RIDEZ comes in two sizes:

1:48 scale ~ about the size of a cell phone
XL 1:18 scale ~ about the size of a football

All parts are interchangeable across 1:48 scale RIDE bodies. All XL 1:18 parts are interchangeable across 1:18 scale RIDE bodies, including RIDEMAKERZ Disney-Pixar Cars RIDEZ.

1:48 scale XTREME CUSTOMZ RIDEZ even have a 4-mode adjustable chassis so you can customize the way you cruise. Choose from Race, Lifted, Jacked, and Off-Road…all with the push of a button! 1:4

Our Party and Review:

We had a fabulous time at our XTREME CUSTOMZ RIDEZ party. All the boys had a blast! We received 10 BATMAN starter kits.

The boys had an exciting time outing the cars together and playing with them. We had races and even a style show where the boys showed their tricked out cars and what they could do! What fun!

Here are some of the boys just receiving their XTREME CUSTOMZ RIDEZ!

They could not wait to open them and enjoy building. Each child built the BATMAN car…some needed more help than others, but overall the build was not difficult. The instructions were very detailed and outlined exactly what to do.

Here is the PDF file of the instructions…Batman PDF… to see how easy and detailed the instructions were to follow.

I had plans to show a Batman cartoon to compliment our RIDEZ but the boys were too wrapped up in playing with the cars to even think of a cartoon! This was great to see them interacting rather than watching television!

Each boy got to go home with his own custom ride and wish list! ~ Our group of boys are partiers and the moms loved the wish list provided by RIDEMAKERZ … this will make birthday party gift giving easier among our group!

Overall, EVERYONE had a blast…boys and mom’s included! Thanks RIDEMAKERZ for making our party a HUGE hit!

You can learn more about XTREME CUSTOMZ by RISEMAKERS by visiting www.xtremecustomz.com

Faith and Family Reviews received the following product from Mommy Parties/ Mom Select in exchange for writing a review. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

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The Christmas Web – A Christmas Tradition

Posted by Theresa Gould on April 9, 2013
in Books, Family Stuff, Fun Stuff, Holidays, Home, Kids Stuff, Kids Toys, SALES

This is a compensated post.

We’ve all probably participated in “Christmas in July” events or sales, I know I have multiple times over. It’s fun! Christmas is one of our family’s favorite holidays. Each of us has our own Christmas family tradition passed down from one generation to the next, but have you ever started a new holiday tradition? We have started a couple and our children have really enjoyed them.

If you are looking to start a new family tradition, consider www.ChristmasWeb.com The Chirstmas Web comes in a gift set – a hard covered, unique story book titled, “The Christmas Web” and three magic wands in nice packaging that can be used as a display as well. It’s a very cute idea to have children (or adults too!) find their special Christmas gift by following a literal web.

The Christmas Web retails for $39.99, however, right now there’s a “Spring Sale” going on and they are just $29.99. A 25% discount with the code SALE. Just enter the word SALE in the promotional code box to get the 25% discount at www.ChristmasWeb.com. One these are gone the price will go back to $39.99

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjAXh74jYZA

We received The Christmas Web and our younger children liked it and said it was a nice idea and a sweet story. A couple of them even asked when we could use the wands and I told them at Christmas. The next question was, “When is Christmas?” Then the children were trying to figure out how long they had to wait! We look forward to creating a new tradition this Christmas. Then again maybe we could try it for one of our children’s upcoming birthdays. Whether it’s Christmas or in celebration of some other event, I know our children will enjoy having fun following the Christmas web to discover a special treat or gift at the end of the line.

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Baby Magic Bath Caddy Baby Review

Posted by Brande on April 8, 2013
in Fun Stuff, Gift Ideas, Kids Stuff, Kids Toys, Reviews, Shopping

Baby Magic Bath Caddy Baby Review

Move over Baby Magic shampoos! Baby Magic now has baby dolls! This adorable little 8 inch doll smells REALLY good. She has that new baby powder smell. Mmmmm… takes me back. The Baby Magic dolls are perfect for little hands.

She comes in a bath caddy basket with a duck, shirt, headband, small towel, and I can’t forget 3 pretend Baby Magic bottles. Our Baby Magic is currently drying off in our bathroom. My daughter really enjoyed giving her baby a bath, the baby doll was however a bit slippery once she was wet (but, really most babies are, right? lol….). The duck, bottles and towel were great for pretend play and she enjoys washing her baby each tub time.

Here is our Baby Magic Baby before her first bath.

This is a great gift idea!

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Baby Magic Bath Caddy Baby is available at your local box store.

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Speedeebee!

Posted by Professor on April 4, 2013
in Family Stuff, Gift Ideas, Girl Stuff, Kids Stuff, Kids Toys, Reviews, School, Uncategorized

Can you beat the best? Are you the speediest in the hive? Join the fun with the ultimate word game. Roll the dice to serve up your challenge and be the first to call out a word. May the brightest bee prevail!

Speedeebee is another awesome game from Blue Orange Games. Speedeebee has 150 fun challenges and four alphabet dice. Players race to find words containing or excluding the letters shown on the dice. Speedeebee keeps everyone buzzing with exciting simultaneous play. There are no waiting turns in this family word game! The variety of challenges and dice combinations makes Speedeebee different every time it’s played!

Contents of the game:

50 cards
4 alphabet dice
Illustrated rules

Skills of the game:

Cognitive speed
Vocabulary
Spelling
Reaction time

This game is recommended for ages 8 to adult and accommodates 2 to 6 players.

Click here to see the game in action!

Our Review:

We LOVE this family game! This is certainly a new favorite for family game night at our house! Speedeebee gives the brain a workout! We loved that this was not only a fun game but also a great learning tool! This game is reminiscent of speed tests at school… it gets the children (and adults) into the practice of thinking quickly. We played this game as a family…and had a blast. Even my 4 year old had a great time identifying letters on the dice. Even though she could not spell we adapted her role to finding letters. The game is age appropriate from 8 and up…but we did not want to exclude our little one from family game night. My other two children who are 7 and 9 played the game with ease (my 7 year old is reading at a higher level so this game was appropriate even for him).

As a mom and “collector” of family games I love that this game is in a small convenient tin. No large box to store and it travels nicely. This game fits easily on our game shelf and can easily be put into a purse or bag for travel use! I also love the fact that the container is made of tin… so often the sides of our game boxes break and I need to tape them up…no worries here with strong tin construction!

Overall, what a fun family game! This was truly enjoyable to play! This is definitely an addition to our family game night and impromptu game nights!

For more information about this and other Blue Orange games please visit:

http://www.blueorangegames.com/

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Sleepy Boy – Wordless Wednesday

Posted by Theresa Gould on April 3, 2013
in Family Stuff, Fun Stuff, Kids Stuff, Wordless Wednesday

This week’s Wordless Wednesday photo is of Jr. when fell asleep on his brother’s shoulder as they were watching Pink Panther on my iPhone. The children set him down or he laid down naturally on my big purse on the floor. Too precious! It’s a lot calmer around the house when this little guy is asleep. When he’s awake he’s into everything and anything!