Saturday, December 17, 2011

Gift Guide: Super Duper Publications Educational Games (Review & Giveaway)

"Sharon and Thomas Webber founded Super Duper® Publications in 1986 with two products and two types of stickers.
Sharon started creating easy-to-use therapy materials while working as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the public schools. Thomas was a practicing attorney before focusing his talents on developing therapy materials also. Fast forward 25 years - today, we're making hundreds of creative, colorful educational and therapy materials that you and your children will love. (Believe it or not, we have as much fun making them as your kids will have learning with them!)"
Super Duper Publications products are perfect gifts for your kids this year because they are educational and a lot of fun. I had the delight of reviewing three of their products, Jeepers Peepers - The Ask & Answer Question Game, Party Pups - The Game of Prepositional Fun & Anytime Go-Togethers Super Photo Fun Deck.
The first game, Jeepers Peepers is a question game with 101 photo cards in five different categories: Animals, Food, People, Things, and Transportation. The game comes with 6 pairs of Jeepers Peepers glasses, "My Cue Cards", 101 photo cards (4" x 5"), Spinner and bingo chips, and an Instruction booklet.
The rules to the game are very simple. Everyone wears a pair of glasses and a card is attached to the top without the person seeing what is on the card. After everyone has their glasses on and a card is placed on their heads, you start asking questions until you figure out what is on your glasses. The glasses are absolutely hilarious, we laughed so hard!
We went around the circle, and the first person to guess the right answer won. The round went for quite a while, so we didn't end up using the spinner and the chips. But, if you plan on playing a few rounds the spinner and chips would be a lot of fun. We had a blast playing this game as adults, so I am sure our kids will love it too when they are a little older.
 
The second product we reviewed is the Anytime Go-Togethers Super Photo Fun Deck! My daughter loves this set of cards and asks to play with them every night. The deck of cards includes 84 photo card pairs and a handy tin to keep them in. I really have enjoyed the photos on these cards because their is such a variety and the photos are very clear and colorful!
  My husband and I play a memory game with my daughter every night, which has been great for her.  She just has so much fun and wants to play it over and over again. I have noticed her vocabulary getting better and she surprises me every time we play because she remembers where the matching card is better than I do! What I really like about this set is that I can switch out the cards every night when we play memory making it feel like a whole new game.
Lastly, we reviewed Party Pups. This game is super simple and is a great way to learn prepositions and creating sentences. "Players take turns choosing preposition cards, identifying the preposition on the cards, and using them in sentences. Players spin the electronic spinner and collect doggie treats which they place on their game boards. The player with the most doggie treats wins!"
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(Same 3 items I reviewed)
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This product is featured in our "2011 Holiday Gift Guide!"

A big thank you to Super Duper Publications for providing me with Jeepers Peepers - The Ask & Answer Question Game, Party Pups - The Game of Prepositional Fun & Anytime Go-Togethers Super Photo Fun Deck to review and for providing these three games as a giveaway for one of our readers.  These are my honest opinions, your experience may vary.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Gift Guide: Zatswho Soft Photo Flashcard (Review & Giveaway)

"Our mission is to create simple educational and developmental products that encourage caregiver interaction with children of all abilities to increase learning skills and expand creativity, helping to enhance family relationships as they encourage their children to maximize their potential and create a lasting loving impact." 
My girls love to have photos of their grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles, so I was ecstatic to have received a set of Zatswho Soft Photo Flashcards. The set comes with 6 differently colored flexible flashcards, along with a travel tote and game instructions.
Zatswho Flashcards have been great for us because we will spend hours talking about our relatives and places that we have been. This week my brother is getting married, so we have traveled to Canada visiting a lot of relatives. When we get home I am going to replace the old photos with new ones, and I know my girls will love them since we will be away from my side of the family during Christmas!
 I really like the fact that you can put anything in these Flashcards. Since my kids are younger I will be using these for family photos, numbers, letters, colors, shapes and familiar objects. Then when they get a little older, I would love to use these for school subjects. If you would like them to be more permanent, you can seal the backs so the photos can't come out.

Educational and Developmental processes and goals promoted using Zatswho® Flashcards
  • Bond with a child
  • Recognition of Family members
  • Matching
  • Visual Discrimination
  • Hand and Finger Grasp
  • Language Development
  • Memory and Recall
  • Visual Processing
  • Visual Attention
  • Color Recognition and Identification
  • Object Recognition and Identification
  • Facilitate Learning First and Last Names of important people in a child’s life keeping a child safer

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Zatswho is available to Purchase online for $15.95!
Use PROMO Code "TakeMe" to get $5.00 off EACH set of Zatswho Flashcards!
(HURRY! Expires December 19th)
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This product is featured in our "2011 Holiday Gift Guide!"

A big thank you to Zatswho for providing me with a set of their Soft Photo Flashcards to review and for providing a set of their Soft Photo Flashcards as a giveaway for one of our readers.  These are my honest opinions, your experience may vary.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Gift Guide: Teach My Solar System (Review & Giveaway) CLOSED

 
"Teach My, award-winning all-in-one learning kits for babies, toddlers and preschoolers."
"No need to spend hundreds of dollars going to stores buying individual teaching tools, Teach My learning kits provide everything necessary to teach your baby, teach your toddler and teach your preschooler!"
Last week my family went to the museum where we visited the space exhibit. My daughter was very impressed and loved every minute of it. She was first introduced to the solar system not too long ago through Teach My's Solar System Add-On Kit. We have the Teach My Baby All-In-One Kit, so we were ecstatic to add The Solar System to it. The Solar System by Teach My is the perfect beginner kit to the solar system because it is simple and easy to follow. The Add-On Kit includes: 1 Book, 1 Full Size Poster, 10 Flashcards, 1 Poster, a Teaching guide and a Re-Sealable Storage Bag.
The Teach My Solar System book includes one "highlighted characteristic for each planet and each planet's place within the solar system." The simplicity of the book is perfect for my daughter because it does not overwhelm her. She can easily understand the placement of each planet, and a fun fact about that planet. The text is easy to read and the photos are fun to look at!
Something I really like about this kit is everything matches. The pictures of the planets are the same on the poster, puzzle, in the book, and on the flashcards, which makes it very easy for my daughter to connect each photo with one another.
The Solar System Flashcards are great because they have the picture of the planet on one side and the planet spelled out on the other, so they can see the picture, and hear the pronunciation while looking at the word.
Lastly, the Solar System kit comes with a fun puzzle with the sun and all of the planets. My daughter loves the puzzle and placing each planet into the right spot.
We have really enjoyed this Add-On kit and have had a blast learning about the planets. The only thing I would change to the kit would be the puzzle. We have found that some of the planets are a tad difficult to get into their spots, but besides that, this kit is a great learning tool for those space lovers out there!
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This product is featured in our "2011 Holiday Gift Guide!"

A big thank you to Teach My for providing me with a Solar System Kit to review and for providing a Solar System Kit as a giveaway for one of our readers.  These are my honest opinions, your experience may vary.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Gift Guide: uKloo Early reader Treasure Hunt Game (Review & Giveaway) CLOSED

 
"uKloo Early Reader Treasure Hunt Game: A new concept in Educational Games helps children gain confidence as they learn to read. uKloo turns your home into the game board and gets kids physically active.
Parents are in charge with uKloo!  After all who knows their kids best? Parents decide which cards to use, how many cards to leave out and what SURPRISE will best motivate their child!"
As little kids, there were many moments where we needed something do to because we were BORED! I vividly remember my littlest brother and I making a treasure hunt game with clues that sent us running all over the house! We had an absolute blast! I can't remember what the end prizes would be, but I am sure they weren't too extravagant, coming from a little boy with no money!

When I found uKloo online and read what the Early Reader Treasure Hunt Game involved it brought back so many fun memories and I was delighted to review it with my kids!
Ukloo was created as a reading game with the help of teachers, parents, kids and even special needs families! Not only is uKloo extremely fun to play, but it is educational as well. It is great for Beginner Readers, Young Readers, Reluctant Readers, ADHD Children, Autistic Kids and English as a second language students. The Early Reader Treasure Hunt Game provides kids with physical activity, an opportunity for them to problem solve and independent learning and play.
With uKloo all the work of a treasure hunt is done for you! My favorite part is the picture helper. It has pictures of the words on the cards, so my kids can refer to the chart when they can't figure out the word on the card! I keep this on the fridge so they know where they can find it. It is really a genius idea and makes the game a ton of fun! There are also 3 levels to the game. Each level gets a little more difficult, so you can slowly add in the harder cards as your kids get older and smarter!
Your kids will have so much fun playing this game. There are lots of things you can do with the game to twist it up too. One idea given is you can set up two separate games and have your kids race to see who finishes first! I like to hide gifts, so this will be a great way to get my hubby running around the house too!
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This product is featured in our "2011 Holiday Gift Guide!"

A big thank you to uKloo for providing me with their Early Reader Treasure Hunt Game to review, and for providing the uKloo Early Reader Treasure Hunt Game as a giveaway for one of our readers.  These are my honest opinions, your experience may vary.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Gift Guide: The Tuneables: "I Love Music" DVD 2 Disk Set (Review & Giveaway) CLOSED

The Tuneables is an innovative video and audio series that teaches the "ABCs" of music learning to preschool children in a fun and engaging way. This foundation focuses on four elements:
Tonal & Rhythm Patterns in Music The Singing Voice
A Basic Repertoire of Music Listening Skills
 When I was younger, I played the piano and the flute, and loved making music on my instruments. Unfortunately, I stopped taking lessons because I didn't fully appreciate it, and now regret not keeping up with it because I have forgotten everything. Now that I have my own kids, I really want them to love music and have it be a big part of their lives.
 When I found out about The Tuneables, I was in heaven! The Tuneables is a fantastic educational music DVD and CD series that is meant to teach kids the fundamentals of music in an engaging way! I was so happy to have come across such a great musical learning tool because I simply didn't know where to begin. I wanted to teach my kids the basics of music and The Tuneables: "I Love Music" is just what I was looking for! 
If you are worried that you don't know a whole lot about music, The Tuneables DVD and CD series comes with two parent guide books, one for the DVD and one for the CD. I really have enjoyed these guides because they have helped me be a better teacher to my kids.
The characters are absolutely adorable and is probably the reason why I have fallen in love with this series! Mo the violin, Pete the trumpet, Clara the clarinet, Sunny the cymbal, Snare the drum, and Gloria are such a fun, friendly bunch of colorful instruments, my kids can't take their eyes off of them when it's on. Both my daughters love participating and have learned so much through watching and listening to The Tuneables!
Check out The Tuneables website and download each one of The Tuneables character coloring pages! Just click on each character!
  Awards Won!
The Tuneables were recently honored with four prestigious awards for product excellence!
 Parents' Choice Foundation: Gold Award 
Dr. Toy: Top 10 Best Audio/Video Products 
Dr. Toy: Top 100 Best Children's Products
Creative Child Magazine: DVD Of The Year 2011
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This product is featured in our "2011 Holiday Gift Guide!"

A big thank you to The Tuneables for providing me The Tuneables: "I Love Music" to review, and for providing The Tuneables: "I Love Music" as a giveaway for one of our readers.  These are my honest opinions, your experience may vary.