Last week, I was sent a Chalk City Activity Kit. The kit come with a variety of toys: a road maker, a set of 3 road sign stencils, a set of 3 obstacle course stencils & 20 pieces of chalk. The kit encourages your children to go outside and play while having fun. This was Hannah’s first experience with sidewalk chalk. She picked out one of the pink pieces. Due to the horrible heat wave, she had to play with everything on the porch so she was out of the sun and I could easily get her in when she got too hot. She’s had a blast tracing and coloring in the stencils. She has also enjoyed playing with them in the house was well. The road maker is pretty neat too. It folds out and holds the two pieces of chalk to make a path. We haven’t gotten to play with it much yet, but are planning on using it in the driveway once the heat lets up a bit. When she’s not using the stencils, she’s been drawing smiley faces and playing tic-tac-toe. The chalk pieces are the big think ones so she ...
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Product Review – Linking Loops Mini Bead Maze
A few weeks ago, I unexpectedly received a package from Educational Toys Planet. It was a Linking Loops Mini Bead Maze for review. The bead maze is rated for 2 and over, and comes with an activity sheet. The maze itself consists of two wires firmly attached to a solid wood base: one twisted in an elaborate spiral and loops & the other in simple hills. It's relatively compact at 9 x 7.5 x 4.25 inches. Now, normally I would have the review written and posted within a week or so at the very latest. However, since it was a toy, I wanted to give Hannah a fair amount of time to play with it, in order put it 'through it's paces' so to speak. She can be quite rough with her toys at times, so I wanted to see how it would hold up to her treatment. I first took it out of the box, she wasn't really all the interested in it at first. She ran around with the box for a bit before she really took interest in the maze. Once she started playing with it, she had a blast with it. The ...
Product Review – Fisher-Price Precious Planet Crib-to-Floor Mirror
I'd been looking for any sort of mirror or activity station to attach to Hannah's crib...so she would stop trying to chew her way out. I didn't want anything overly huge or bulky, but wasn't too sure what to get. Eventually, I ran across this at Wal-Mart. Hannah immediately saw it and was all but lunging out of the shopping cart trying to get it off the shelf. I figured it was worth a try since Hannah seemed to be really taken with it. Attaching it to the side of the crib is easy. It ties on with two thick strings. So far they have held up very well under Hannah's daily assaults. I was worried at first about them coming undone, but I've noticed that the knots get tighter the more she pulls on it. If fact, I can't get one of them undone anymore. The base of the mirror has four activity feet: two of them are rattles, one squeaks, and the other jingles. The mirror itself has withstood hours of drool, poking, kicking, and chewing...and still looks almost new. The best ...