PJ Masks, here to save the (Christmas) day

We’re a PJ Masks Ambassador and received compensation or product for this post. All thoughts are our own. To the elementary school set, PJ Masks is their jam. Every friend that our 7 year old has over to play is immediately drawn to his PJ Masks stuff. Now that the show is a hugely popular Disney Jr. program the full gamut of toys, games and activities are hitting stores.

Some of these products arrived at our house as a happy coincidence when some of their friends were here to play.  “Stop-I must take photos of everything”, the visiting kids must’ve thought that dad was just a snap-happy photo freak. However, our children knew the deal and calmly told their friends that they could play with them after I took a picture-at which time they told me to take the pictures ASAP.

We received the PJ Masks Figure Pack, PJ Masks Night Sight Game, PJ Masks Color and Sticker Book and Time To Be A Hero, an actual PJ Masks book from Simon & Schuster.

First up for the kids to work with was the PJ Masks Figure Pack. It has Owlette, Catboy, Gekko, Luna Girl and Rome. They’re all in action poses and good for role play, crude kid-made stop motion movies or cake toppers. These toys are solid, well made and will immediately hook the imaginations of PJ Masks fans 7 and under. Initially our two guys were trading as to which character stayed in whose room. I finally had to interject that all five of them will stay in the play room.

The PJ Masks Night Sight Game took a little bit of instruction from me, but after that it was a very good fit with the 6 year olds. Owlette, Cat Boy and Gekko each have a store front that contains nine items, with Romeo having a smaller store. Each store front has three strips of items that are hidden by coded paper. It’s a good thing the game includes three masks that allow players to see the hidden images.

The actual gameplay requires players to work together so that Romeo’s store front doesn’t get any items. It’s a memory and matching game, so our 7 year old could easily play this game to where it wasn’t challenging. Ages 6 and younger will love putting on the masks, looking for the pictures and laughing at each other.  For bonus points we put the action figures out on the table when we played so that Luna Girl could get in on the action.

Coloring is a classic, combine it with stickers and price it under $6 and you’ve got hours of entertainment for ages 3 and up. The Crayola PJ Masks Color and Sticker Book fit that bill. Our 7 year old loved coloring the sheets as detailed as possible, whereas his younger brother was rougher; colored in the basics and supplemented it with stickers. It comes with 32 pages to color, over 50 stickers and can only be found at Toys R Us.

Time To Be A Hero is a level one book in the Ready-to-Read series from Simon & Schuster. This series of books are great in aligning young readers to content that they actually want to read about. Level one readers are usually between 4-6 and that description fit our kids exactly. The 7 year old could read the book from his first attempt.

The 5 year old is learning to match the sounds of the words to what they look like. For example, he knows all of the PJ Masks characters, so when one of their names was printed I’d point to the picture, ask him who what is and then point to the word. Time To Be A Hero is a perfect level for him, with content that he actively seeks out, so it’s win/win.

These are just some of the PJ Masks toys, activities and books that you might see at stores this Christmas holiday season. What are your kids looking for the most? Drop us a line in the comments as we’re always eager to see what kids are talking about and what they want to play.