Get Moving on National Recess Week
Did you know that March 2nd-9th is National Recess Week?
Recess Week emphasizes encouraging kids to get up and get moving. When I was a kid, recess was just plain FUN. We weren’t thinking about burning calories or building muscle, but that is exactly what is happening when little ones skip, run, and dance around!
Putumayo Kids is has some wonderful world music CD’s with infectious beats for wild and free impromptu family dance sessions, and to celebrate Recess Week, Putumayo Kids is giving away a collection of 3 CD’s from the Playground series!
The first CD in the series, World Playground, was released in 1999 and was my introduction to the treasure trove of Putumayo Kids offerings. I borrowed it from the library over a year ago and I still find myself singing the chorus to Fatou Yo , a tune from Senegal, every now and then.
It is hard to resist the urge to groove when you listen to songs from Jamaica, Brazil, Congo, and a half-dozen other exotic locations.
The Mom Most Traveled family has also enjoyed Sesame Street Playground and Hawaiian Playground. Having these CD’s is like a cultural music buffet. I just pick what to serve according to my mood.
Putumayo Kids has more in the works for the Playground series! In May we can look forward to the release of European Playground and Picnic Playground in July.
A “Putumayo Presents Picnic Playground” concert tour is planned for this summer too; that sounds like a good time to me!
Putumayo Kids is the children’s and educational division of Putumayo World Music,with a goal of introducing children to other cultures through music. Putumayo Kids is a truly global record label, with millions of CDs sold in more than 100 countries around the world.
To enter to win a collection of THREE Putumayo Kids Playground series CD’s including World Playground and two surprise selections, browse the Putumayo Kids catalog.
Leave a comment here with the name of a Putumayo Kids CD that you would like to listen to, not mentioned in this post.
For a second entry, leave a separate comment about how you might celebrate National Recess Week with your family.
One winner will be chosen at random to recieve this wonderful prize, a $45 value!
This contest is open to those with a US mailing address.
This giveaway will close on 11:59 pm CST, March 11, 2009.
*Congrats to Putumayo Kids winner: Christie Gold (non blogger, comment: I tweeted, http://twitter.com/christygold/status/1265975775)*
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28 February 2009, 5:57 pm
Those look fantastic! I was just thinking this morning that I want to expose Livy to more world culture and music. This would be perfect. Celtic Dreamland, Animal Playground sound great! The Latin Playground is one that I will have to look into. I really want Livy to hear a bit of her heritage.
28 February 2009, 9:51 pm
Dreamland sounds like a nice collection. I could really use some new lullabies to play!
01 March 2009, 5:43 am
I would like to hear the Celtic dreamland
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01 March 2009, 8:27 am
I’d like to hear the New Orleans Playground. They all sound like a LOT of fun!
01 March 2009, 12:29 pm
Dreamland sounds nice but they all do,thanks for the chance
01 March 2009, 12:32 pm
I think we will celebrate National Recess Week,by being more active,im buying my little grandson a jump rope an teaching him how to use it,an playing outside/inside games with them that will keep them active
01 March 2009, 12:35 pm
I would love to listen to Celtic Dreamland!
01 March 2009, 1:39 pm
folkplayground sounds nice
01 March 2009, 3:35 pm
I would like to hear the Animal Playground CD
01 March 2009, 4:38 pm
The hawaiian playground
01 March 2009, 5:32 pm
I would like to listen to Celtic Dreamland. Thanks for the giveaway!
01 March 2009, 5:33 pm
I might celebrate Recess Week by spending more time sleeping.
01 March 2009, 5:37 pm
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01 March 2009, 5:38 pm
I tweeted, http://twitter.com/christygold/status/1265975775
01 March 2009, 5:40 pm
I definitely stumbled, christygold.
I’m wondering if it’s because some people think they are stumbling when they’re not? That site is hard to figure out.
01 March 2009, 6:59 pm
I think the Celtic Dreamland sounds nice!
01 March 2009, 7:33 pm
Hawaiian playgrounds sounds cute.
01 March 2009, 7:34 pm
Just yesterday my family and I went on a 5 mile hike at a regional park and then we flew kites.
01 March 2009, 7:34 pm
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01 March 2009, 7:40 pm
I would listen to Celtic Dreamland!~
01 March 2009, 8:44 pm
the Animal Playground CD is good.
02 March 2009, 12:19 am
Animal Playground looks like fun. They love animals.
02 March 2009, 12:43 am
would love Celtic Dreamland
02 March 2009, 1:21 am
I would love to share the World Playground with my neice
02 March 2009, 3:05 am
celtic dreamland sounds amazing
02 March 2009, 3:05 am
going to the park a little more maybe a picnic
02 March 2009, 5:51 am
Great! I will take my grandson to the playground this week.
02 March 2009, 6:58 am
Hello, What a wonderful giveaway prize package giveaway contest! I enjoy Celtic music and the Celtic Cd
from them would one I would like for our family. These
Cds are fantastic. Please enter me in your drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
02 March 2009, 7:00 am
We love the animated show called “Recess!” Also, depending on the weather, we are fortunate to have 3 lovely parks near our home. A picnic sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks! Cindi
02 March 2009, 12:29 pm
I would love the Sesame Street CD! AWESOME.
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02 March 2009, 12:31 pm
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02 March 2009, 4:21 pm
The latin playground and the animal playground sound like a lot of fun. I love world music and it’s great to share that with children. thanks!
02 March 2009, 4:43 pm
Would love to check out the Dreamland CD. We love Putumayo Kids and own a couple of the cds. It’s great music for both kids and grownups. T
02 March 2009, 6:02 pm
I like Reggae Playground
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02 March 2009, 6:02 pm
I think we can celebrate by hitting the skatepark that week.
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02 March 2009, 11:41 pm
I would choose the Latin Playground cd as we are going to try to teach our new baby to speak Spanish and English. I would also love the Dreamland CD.
02 March 2009, 11:43 pm
It is supposed to be warmer later this week. Joshua and I are planning to walk to the neighborhood park and play with our friend who lives close by for Recess Week (well, actually, I’ll walk and Joshua will ride in the stroller-since he is only 6 weeks old)
03 March 2009, 4:51 pm
I think Celtic Dreamland or Animal Playground sound like something our family would enjoy together! Thanks for sharing this with us!
03 March 2009, 9:15 pm
The Celtic CD sounds really neat. But I am honestly most interested in the Hawaiian one - but it was already mentioned in the post!!
03 March 2009, 9:41 pm
The Carribean Playground sounds great! Thanks for entering me.
03 March 2009, 11:19 pm
Hawaiian Playground
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04 March 2009, 12:04 am
I’d love to listen to Reggae Playground!!
04 March 2009, 1:34 am
I would like to hear Hawaiian Playground.
04 March 2009, 1:55 am
The Reggae Playground sounds great. I love reggae and so do my kids as a result! =)
04 March 2009, 1:56 am
For Recess week, we’re planning on taking our bikes and scooters to our local park and ride ride ride!
04 March 2009, 2:05 am
I would love Brazilian Playground, Sesame Street Playground, or Asian Dreamland!
04 March 2009, 2:37 am
I think Animal Playground looks great.
04 March 2009, 2:38 am
I think the Reggae Playground looks like something my daughter would love to dance to!
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04 March 2009, 5:19 am
I would like to hear the Celtic Dreamland.
04 March 2009, 4:24 pm
celtic dreamland!
04 March 2009, 4:25 pm
i play with my son…instead of carrying my toddler around, i hold his hand and give him a chance to do most of the walking when we’re outside of the home.
04 March 2009, 6:01 pm
We would love to hear the Celtic Dreamland CD. Thanks for the giveaway.
04 March 2009, 8:28 pm
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04 March 2009, 9:15 pm
Celtic Dreamland or the New Orleans one would sound wonderful!
05 March 2009, 1:39 am
reggae playground sounds awesome!
05 March 2009, 1:44 am
We’d love to hear the Caribbean Playground. Thanks
05 March 2009, 1:23 pm
I’d like to hear Asian Dreamland.
05 March 2009, 7:37 pm
Ooh, I would love to hear Asian Dreamland. Thanks for the opportunity!
05 March 2009, 8:06 pm
I would like the animal playground cd
06 March 2009, 2:44 am
I’d love Caribben Playground.
06 March 2009, 9:03 am
I think my son would love Brazilian Playground. I love Brazilian beats and I’m sure we could dance around the house and have fun!
06 March 2009, 9:05 am
We try to make every week Recess Week in our house. I’ve been making an effort to go out and ride bikes with my boys instead of just standing and watching them. I’ve realized that when I join in, the kids want to play longer and we all have fun!
06 March 2009, 2:24 pm
The Latin playground would be my pick to help me further teach my son Spanish and teach him about his heritage.
07 March 2009, 2:22 am
I can imagine that “The African Dreamland” would sound good. Thanks.
07 March 2009, 4:43 am
I would like to hear the Animal Playground CD
07 March 2009, 11:57 am
I would like to listen to Latin Playground. Thanks for the chance!
07 March 2009, 11:59 am
we would celebrate Nat’l Recess Week by finally doing some family yoga (intention has been there for quite some time!) and continue to dance to music the kids love. Thanks!
07 March 2009, 4:38 pm
celtic dreamlands sounds like a wonderful cd.
08 March 2009, 4:56 am
I really like the Latin Playground CD. My daughter is from Guatemala so this would be great for us.
Thanks for the opportunity,
Beth
08 March 2009, 4:59 am
For national recess week, we’d love to take a nature walk (if the weather permits).
Thanks for the opportunity,
Beth
08 March 2009, 7:13 am
Celtic Dreamland looks wonderful
08 March 2009, 7:13 am
Hopefully the weather will be warm enough that we can get out and walk and ride bikes
08 March 2009, 2:56 pm
Celtic dreamland sounds well….dreamy!
08 March 2009, 8:08 pm
The Folk Playground and Latin Playground CDs would make my little guy happy!
08 March 2009, 8:10 pm
We’ve taken every advantage to get out and play this week with our crazy weather extremes–sledding in the snow on Monday to bike riding on an unusual balmy 70 degree day yesterday.
08 March 2009, 9:22 pm
We’d like the animal playground cd. Thanks for the chance.
08 March 2009, 10:02 pm
Let’s do the Celtic Dreamland.
08 March 2009, 10:02 pm
For recess, we’ll go biking.
08 March 2009, 11:49 pm
I love love love Putumayo! We have a few of their cds (including Sesame Street Playground..thank you!) and I’d love to try Asian Dreamland and Folk Playground. Their cds are great, especially since they’re not too annoyingly kid-ish.
08 March 2009, 11:52 pm
We celebrated yesterday by going to the park and playing (in the mud, albeit).
08 March 2009, 11:53 pm
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09 March 2009, 4:51 am
good contest
09 March 2009, 7:11 am
I would love to hear the African Playground — I love African rhythms.
09 March 2009, 7:13 am
in honor of national recess week, I’ll be sure to dance with my baby daughter!
09 March 2009, 4:38 pm
We love the Caribbean playground! And I’d love to check out the Reggae Playground next!
09 March 2009, 4:40 pm
Oops…I didn’t realize last week was Natl Playground week! But that’s ok…the kids & I are always running around & playing outside. We’ll have to make a special trip to the playground now, though!
09 March 2009, 4:57 pm
Putumayo Kids does such a good job introducing kids to world music. We love to own any of the CD’s really. Latin Playground and Folk Playground sound particularly interesting.
09 March 2009, 4:58 pm
Today is the last day of recess week. Guess we’ll go outside and play a little kickball and jump in some puddles!
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09 March 2009, 5:00 pm
Oh they all sound great but I would love to try the New Orleans Playground.
09 March 2009, 5:00 pm
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09 March 2009, 5:01 pm
For National REcess week I think we’ll just hit every playground around here.
09 March 2009, 11:07 pm
I’d love to hear Celtic Dreamland. It sounds soothing and beautiful.
10 March 2009, 6:29 pm
I think my kids would love the Animal Playground CD!
10 March 2009, 9:12 pm
I would really like to listen to the Reggae Playground CD. I bet my toddler would enjoy it!
10 March 2009, 9:23 pm
Hawaiian Playground!
11 March 2009, 12:17 am
Animal Playground sounds great!
11 March 2009, 1:04 am
I like the Celtic CD.
11 March 2009, 2:08 am
I would like to listen to the Celtic Dreamland CD.
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11 March 2009, 3:38 am
I’d love to hear Animal Playground.
11 March 2009, 4:46 am
Having just returned from Aruba with the grandkids joining us, I think that they would really enjoy the “Brazilian Playground.” They seemed to like the music with a lot of rhythm!
11 March 2009, 5:36 am
My favorite is the New Orleans Playground CD. Thanks for the giveaway!
11 March 2009, 5:36 am
I’ll take a walk in the local park to celebrate recess week.
11 March 2009, 5:40 am
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11 March 2009, 5:41 am
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11 March 2009, 5:42 am
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11 March 2009, 11:53 am
Dreamland would definitely be my choice!
11 March 2009, 1:58 pm
The Animal Playground CD sounds fun.
11 March 2009, 9:22 pm
I like French Playground
11 March 2009, 9:26 pm
My kids would love the Celtic Dreamland.
12 March 2009, 1:31 am
I think my daughter would like the Animal Playground CD. Thanks!
12 March 2009, 1:33 am
Since it is still too cold to get up and play outside, I might celebrate National Recess Week with my daughter by bringing her to some active indoor places to play like the open gym at the gymnastics studio nearby or to play in the gym at the Y. Thanks!
12 March 2009, 2:00 am
Reggae Playground sounds good!
12 March 2009, 2:03 am
We are breaking out the kites and heading to the park to celebrate National Recess Week!
12 March 2009, 3:53 am
The Hawaiian Playground because I’ve been to Hawaii and it brings back happy memories~!
12 March 2009, 4:10 am
French Playground
12 March 2009, 4:46 am
Folk Playground sounds truly magical! : )))
Thanks so much for this fabulous give~away! : )))
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12 March 2009, 4:46 am
I stumbled this give~away! : )))
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12 March 2009, 4:47 am
And, I TWITTERED about this give~away…….username: mamaleahita.
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12 March 2009, 5:02 am
I love the Animal Playground CD!
12 March 2009, 5:04 am
We might go out for walks more often.