Archive for Product Reviews for Kids

Pound Puppies DVD to release on March 6th!

POUND PUPPIES: HOMEWARD POUND

DVD Special Feature include Learn to Draw Lucky

AVAILABLE MARCH 6 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY

Puppy lovers rejoice! Pound Puppies: Homeward Pound will arrive on DVD on March 6, 2012, from Shout! Factory Kids in collaboration with Hasbro, Inc.  The DVD set will contain bonus feature Learn to Draw Lucky.

The Pound Puppies are a team of fearless dogs whose sworn mission is to find homes for lonely puppies. Even though they look like regular dogs, these pro-active pooches match up pups with loving families fulfilling the mantra of a pup for every person and a person for every pup—all while they keep the humans at Shelter 17 clueless. Sometimes dogs are dogs’ best friend!

The Pound Puppies series is currently airing on The Hub in the U.S. and YTV in Canada. The DVD release marks the North American home entertainment debut of Hasbro Studios’ hit show.

Episodes:

Homeward Pound

My Fair Rebound

Quintuplets

K-9 Kid

Zoltron

Bonus Feature: Learn to Draw Lucky

Pound Puppies: Homeward Pound is priced at $12.99 MSRP.

Did you have these as a kid? I don’t remember a cartoon ever existing, but this would have been fun to watch years ago! I’m just glad it’s coming out now! My sister and I used to have tons of these little puppies (kitties too) all over the place. I loved rescuing them from “the pound” when we played. I have a feeling that little girls may take to this more so than little boys, but either way, I’m showing it to my boys. I’m sure it’s going to be adorable!

Print Lady and the Tramp Coloring Sheets, Activity Sheets, Recipe Cards & Valentine’s Day Cards!

In celebration of LADY AND THE TRAMP DIAMOND EDITION on Blu-ray and DVD, I wanted to share with you a fun new widget with activities that your little ones are sure to enjoy!
  • LADY AND THE TRAMP Story Book
  • Video Clips
  • Coloring Sheets 
  • Spot the Difference Activity Sheet 
  • Special Recipes
  • Valentine’s Day Cards

The Adventures of Chuck & Friends set to release on Valentine’s Day!

 

POPULAR KIDS SHOW MAKES ITS DVD DEBUT!

Drivers, prepare to buckle up! The Adventures of Chuck & Friends: Friends To The Finish will arrive on DVD on February 14, 2012, from Shout! Factory in collaboration with Hasbro, Inc. Featuring 10 exhilarating episodes, The Adventures of Chuck & Friends also touts a color-your- own-cover activity.

 Follow CHUCK THE DUMP TRUCK character and his incredible cast of friends in this delightfully fast-paced, song-filled, high-energy series for preschoolers. Every visitor to the truck stop where CHUCK lives fuels his exciting fantasies, and he enlists his pals DIGGER, BOOMER, ROWDY, SOKU, BIGGS and HANDY to turn those fantasies into reality.

The Adventures of Chuck & Friends series is currently airing on The Hub TV Network in the U.S. and on Treehouse in Canada.

The Adventures of Chuck & Friends: Friends To The Finish is priced at $12.99.

Trailer

Best in Show

Practice

Chassis’ Dance

Over, Around and Through

I’ve never seen these shows before, but Cutler has many of these trucks and I know he’d enjoy being able to play with the toys as he follows along with the movie. All my boys loved trucks and seeing them come to life is a perfect kid friendly adventure!

Trick your kicks with U-Laces!

Cohen (just turned 6) has been on this kick that he needs lace up shoes. The boy just learned how to tie his shoes and I have a feeling that he’s not going to like new lace-up shoes once he realizes that he has to tie them over and over, over the course of a day. I make my boys take off their shoes when they come into the house. Granted, they only do it about half of the time, but either way, it’s supposed to be happening.

So when Eleah reached out to me about U-Lace I was all too eager to give it a try. Honestly this product exists to trick our your kicks, allowing you to personalize your laces with cool colors and designs, but for us this makes it easy to slip on and off your shoes.

ulace_instructions

I started with Cohen’s new shoes and stripped the laces from them. I realize that he really should work on tying his shoes, but I’m just too impatient to wait for the constant “Mom!!! I can’t tie my shoes!” or “MOM! Tie my shoes for me!!!”. I can’t stand lace up shoes.

The U-lace laces are easy to put in. It has 2 tips, aglet and “fingernail”. Pull the aglet through and point the fingernail towards the toe.

When you put in the next lace, it’s important to nestle the aglet into the fingernail from the lace ahead of it. We noticed that they didn’t stay in put. If it shifts and points in the wrong direction I would think it could poke you. The instructions state that you may have to adjust the aglet/fingernail nestle after you’ve put the shoe on.

I’m thinking that would be a pain in the rear, but that’s the price you pay for some tricked out kicks!

Cohen loves the way his shoes look. It did make them more snug than just when they were laced up old-school. Cohen has a wide foot and prefers his shoes kinda loose. Camden on the other hand, has a narrow foot and likes his shoes really snug. Figures the pair I just bought him are Z-Straps. I think I’ll go and get him a new pair this weekend just so he can sport the new U-Laces!

One package contains 16 U-Lace segments. They are stretchy, which is awesome! It also contains 2 top laces. This would be good for creating the basket weave type look. Each pack will run you either $7.99 or $8.99 from their online store. They have some great colors including the 80′s neon’s that are back in style, bright vibrant, muted and even glow in the dark (those are $10.99)!

A friend of mine just bought these for her daughter for Christmas. Wouldn’t these look so cool all tricked out! I’m so telling her about these.

Would you wear them as an adult or strictly for the kids?

Want to stay in the loop so you don’t miss a deal or steal? Follow U-Lace on Twitter and like U-Lace on Facebook for all the scoop!

50% off subscription at Reading Kingdom! Expires January 1st, 2012.

My boys are still loving the Reading Kingdom program that I told you about back in June.

Reading Kingdom told me about a great promotion they have right now. My readers can get a limited-time 50% discount on any subscription to the Reading Kingdom. Subscriptions are either annual or monthly and can be cancelled at any time.

Try the Reading Kingdom for free for one month and if you like it, stay with the program and receive 50% off for the life of your subscription!
The Reading Kingdom is a fun, interactive online reading game that teaches kids to read and write to the third grade level.
To use this promotion,
1.Go the Reading Kingdom signup page and signup up https://www.readingkingdom.com/signup/
2.Use this promotion code: HOLIDAYRK
3.You get the first 30 days for free and then 50% off the life of your subscription with this promo code.
4.This offer ends on January 1st, so signup today. Remember, it’s risk free, and you can cancel at any time.
You will be so glad you did!!!

My 5 year old and his Heely’s.

With my affiliation with the wonderful Business 2 Blogger I was selected to try out a pair of Heelys. They encouraged us to order a pair for ourselves, but I knew I’d just wear them once and be done with them. I’ve never been that coordinated with roller skating or inline skating, so I picked one of my kids. 5 year old Cohen volunteered. He’s a size 13 and I piced the Edge for him. Just $60.00! Didn’t they use to be $80.00?

So first I had my sister try them out on my nephew Karcher. That didn’t go too well. He was afraid he was going to fall down. He kept walking on his tip toes. Oh well. So we tried Cohen next. He did okay if I was holding his arms and dragging him across the kitchen floor. He was a bit saddened that it wasn’t as easy as he thought it was going to be. Here’s a video of us trying them out:


So after some unsuccessful attempts at “Heelying” we turned to YouTube.
Here is a 2 year old that can Heely:

That impressed me! What’s next? How about a 4 year old:

Here is that same boy, Spencer, a year later at 5 years old:

After Cohen saw these he is more determined now than ever! We’re still working on it! If he ever gets it down I’ll post another video. We did check out the Heelys Safety Playbook for tips as well as their video How-to section.
Final thoughts?
If you have a kid that likes to roller skate, inline skate, skate board or really really wants these shoes, then it may be worth the investment. If your kiddo just kinda wants the shoes? Well, they may not have the determination it takes to stick with this. It’s a pricey shoe, but for what it does it seems reasonably priced. If they don’t like it or no longer want to try, and you have them wear the shoes without the wheel? Then it’s an expensive shoe.

Have you tried the Heelys? Any tips you can share with Cohen?

Want a deal on a pair of Heelys?
Heelys is throwing a Black Friday special!! Between Nov 25-Nov 28, Buy any pair of Heelys, get the second pair for $25. Or buy a Nano, and get a pair of shoes for $25, and get free ground shipping on all orders!

Want to stay in touch with Heelys so you never miss a deal? Like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
*Disclosure: Heelys sent me a pair for review. Opinions are my own.

The True Story of Puss ‘N Boots DVD review

Today my boys watched The True Story of Puss ‘N Boots starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner William Shatner as the voice of Puss. In all the Shrek movies the voice of Puss was played by Antonio Banderas. That was the first thing they noticed.

You can rent it with Redbox, and you can buy it from Amazon.com for $22.49. The first thing I noticed on both sites were the bad reviews! Redbox gave it half a star out of 5 and Amazon had it rated 1 star out of a possible 5. This is NOT the Dreamworks movie.

My boys watched it for just a few minutes and they were terribly disappointed. It wasn’t the right voice, had it been Banderas instead of Shatner they may have stuck with it a little longer, but they lost interest in it rather quickly.

If your children have not seen Shrek, then they may really find that they enjoy this movie. Having seen any of the Shrek movies first kinda ruins it for the kids. Have you been duped by other lookalike movies before?

*Disclosure: I received this video to review from Child’s Play Communications. The opinions are my own.

Zoozoo Readables app for kids, you’re gonna love it!

If you have a little one that loves books or is just learning to read then you will love this app!

Zoozoo Readables is a book app for little ones that allows them to read along and learn the words of the animals through repetition. There are 8 mini books based on the 8 animals you see in picture 2.

So 8 individual books, 1 for each of the following: Monkey, Zebra, Hippo, Elephant, Lion, Giraffe, Frog and a Tiger. The books are so cool and animated too! It’s not just a book with static pictures.

The book highlights the word it’s reading in red as it reads it. If you want to hear it again you hit the small blue repeat button in the bottom right hand corner. The books are narrated by male and female, so it changes it up a bit keeping it from becoming stale.

Cutler really enjoyed the books. It’s easy to turn the pages, if you can swipe then you can handle this. Super easy. The do repeat many of the same words page after page, but children do really learn well with repetition. My favorite part was the cute little animations. I made the books come to life!

You can buy the full version on iTunes for $1.99 or the lite version can be downloaded for FREE! It was created for the iPad primarily but it can be used on the iPhone or iPod Touch as well. I viewed mine on the iPhone and had no trouble whatsoever.

Here are a few more pics:

Watch your favorite Nursery Rhymes come to life with singing and dancing!

Don’t you get tired of watching the same old shows on TV with your toddler? I don’t know about you but I can only handle so much Bubble Guppies, The Fresh Beat Band and the Dinosaur Train. What is that show even about? Dinosaurs on a train? Don’t even get me started. Would you be interested in seeing your favorite nursery rhymes come to life? Cutler got to view the Mother Goose Club DVD called Nursery Rhyme Singing Time. I filmed his first time seeing it so you could see for yourself…will he watch it? Will it keep his focus? Will it keep him entertained?


They are a group of 6 singing dancing kids. If you ever had a kid that was fascinated with Barney-type shows involving people in costumes, then this will be right up their alley! The kids remind me of Stephanie from Lazy Town. Did you ever see that one? So cute! Their clothes are colorful, hair and ears are large and in-charge! Love their energy too! This is a LIVE action movie that is 40 minutes of uninterrupted nursery rhymes. The characters in Mother Goose world are Teddy Bear, Jack B. Nimble, Little Bo Peep, Baa Baa Sheep, Mary Quite Contrary and Eep Mouse! Adorable and easily remembered by little ones.

Here’s a little snippet from Mother Goose Club:

Early Childhood research has shown that familiarity with nursery rhymes helps young children learn to read. When preschoolers read, recite, sing or clap along to rhymes, they develop a feel for the sounds and structures of language, the first step in becoming successful readers.

On the Mother Goose Club website you can check out some fun printables for your kiddos to color and create on, listen to rhymes, watch videos, listen to songs and shop the store! Right now you can buy the *super pack (which is what we received) that includes the
Mother Goose Club DVD, Nursery Rhumes CD Volumes 1 and Volumes 2, the Coloring Book and stickers! Normally all of this would be $40.00 but if you enter the code SUMMER at checkout you will get a $13.00 discount bringing your total down to $32.00! You can purchase all items separately or just get the digital downloads of the music for $12.00. Want to listen to the tracks before you buy them? Me too! Guess what? You can!

To stay in the know you need to like the Mother Goose Club on Facebook, Follow them on Twitter and Subscribe to their YouTube channel!

*I received the Super Pack from Mother Goose Clue for review purposes only. Opinions and all writings are my own.

Moon Dough has an all new formula!

Moon Dough has an all new formula! It’s less crumbly, it’s holds it’s shape better and it still NEVER dries out! I love that we can use it again and again. As a mom I like it better because it’s not sticky. I make the boys play with it in the kitchen, but evivetiably some always ends up in the living room carpet. Unlike playdough I can just vacuum it up! If it was playdough it would be a stuck-in bright pink mess!

I liked how it felt it my hands. It was so incredibly light weight! Cohen was really into making mountains.

Camden got in on the action trying to help Cutler create foods with the Push ‘N Pop pieces but he wasn’t having it. He was convinced Camden was just trying to take his moon dough so he kicked him out.

Cutler was just interested in tearing it up into little pieces. I tried to get him to squeeze it together as a little ball but tearing it up and tossing it must have been way more fun.

After he got a hold of a fork he decided to try and eat it!

My plan: I placed the moon dough back into the individually sealed bags and put them into a small bag by the back door along with the Push ‘N Pop toys. This will be perfect to grab and go when we need to keep the boys entertained while we are in a restaurant waiting on our food. I used to take playdough and half the time it would be dried out because a lid wasn’t placed on securely. I don’t have to worry about the moon dough drying out so this will be perfect! Thanks Team Mom!

Disclosure: We received a sample to play with from Team Mom. The opinions are my own.
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