The Little Travelers

Yazan: CanCan | 03 January 2009 | 53 Comments
Categories: Teaching Kids about Different Culture, educational products, giveaways, travel with children

The Little Travelers Production company is the brainchild of another traveling mama of two, Angelina Hart!
Angelina chronicles the travels of her two adorable daughters as they explore the world with a child’s eye view.
The Little Travelers DVD’s are a travel documentary series designed for children, and educational and enlightening for everyone!
The Little Travelers also share [...]

Help Your Child Turn Green

Yazan: CanCan | 03 January 2009 | 28 Comments
Categories: books for children, educational products, giveaways, green, reviews

Children have a strong sense of justice, and they love to rally behind a worthy cause (just think of all those kiddie movies where friends band together to save something from an evil grown-up).
The Little Environmentalists aim to arm children with facts to inspire them to go green! I’m Turning Green is the [...]

Thomas and Friends: Special Delivery

Yazan: CanCan | 01 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: educational products, games, reviews

Jojo has been happily playing Thomas And Friends: Special Delivery, a computer game from Brighter Minds Media that I gave him for Christmas.
He is actually playing it right now on the desk top computer as I type on the laptop.
The premise of Thomas And Friends: Special Delivery follows a story, as James (the red train, [...]

Life’s Building Blocks

Yazan: CanCan | 22 December 2008 | 130 Comments
Categories: books for children, coupon codes, educational products, giveaways, reviews

Did you know that children retain 10% of what you tell them, 40% if you add a story, 60% if you add pictures, 90% if you add music?
I really want my children to learn what it means to be of strong character. I am finding it challenging to teach my preschooler and toddler about [...]

Great Blocks from Parents

Yazan: CanCan | 19 December 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: educational products, reviews, toys

I love to surround my children with “traditional” natural toys, but once your toddler enters the “throwing stage”, you start to see your basket of wooden blocks as potential glass-shattering projectiles.
Parents has a great new set of soft blocks called Architecture ABC.
I see these as an improvement over the already wonderful Parents Counting Pal [...]

How-to Books For the Rest of Us

Yazan: CanCan | 16 December 2008 | 180 Comments
Categories: Mom stuff, Uncategorized, educational products, giveaways, reviews

If you know someone who loves to craft but is a Complete Idiot, you will be interested to know that there are guides for people like that!
The The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beading Projects is a great place to start, featuring step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs.
The projects in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beading Projects [...]

Make Claymation Movies at Home!

Yazan: CanCan | 11 December 2008 | 141 Comments
Categories: educational products, giveaways, reviews, videos

I remember trying to make “claymation” videos as a teenager, using a regular video camera and a wad of playdough. I didn’t get much more advanced than “animating” a ball of play dough to roll accross a counter top.
I had lots of creative ideas that I didn’t know how to implement.
HonesTech has a Claymation Studio [...]

Smart E Bear Is Mama’s Best Friend, Too!

Yazan: CanCan | 09 December 2008 | 194 Comments
Categories: educational products, games, giveaways, reviews, toys

Chances are you have heard by now of the hot new toy called Smart-e-Bear; so far, Smart-e-Bear has been honored with the NAPPA Gold award, picked as one of Dr. Toy’s Best 10 Technology Toys and Best 100 Products, included in Top Kid Tech Gifts in Tom’s Guide, won a Greatest Products award from [...]

Quilting and Knitting for Tweens

Yazan: CanCan | 08 December 2008 | 96 Comments
Categories: books for children, educational products, giveaways, reviews

A homemade holiday can be very special; but what about children who are old enough to think beyond basic nursery school crafts?
Sure, the little acrylic paint hand prints on an apron for grandma is cute from a 4-year-old, but children ages nine and older would feel proud to give beautiful, useful gifts they hand [...]

Sneaky DIY Projects

Yazan: CanCan | 07 December 2008 | 63 Comments
Categories: books for children, educational products, frugal, giveaways, green, reviews

I love the idea of a handmade Christmas. Gifts from the heart, possibly saving money, making happy memories.
But what about those family members who can’t knit or whittle? Or be trusted near the oven?
I went on a search for DIY projects that would be of interest to children and non-crafters.
Yes, they do exist.
Before I became [...]