Our oldest son just turned 7and is knee deep in a world of darts. He’s got a couple of dart guns and jumped like a cat when a pickle is placed behind him when he found out we were reviewing the Dart Zone Enforcer Motorized Belt Blaster. Aside from being a mouthful of a title, this dart gun looks impressive and manages to do so in a compact form that’s very durable.
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Our oldest son just turned 7. Prior to much planning or research he opted for a Star Wars themed birthday party at home. For a kid turning 7 a Star Wars birthday party is a safe bet. We planned some cool Star Wars themed games for the party, sent out the invitations and let the Force be with us. Shortly after that we went to Toys R’ Us to see what toys were new and popular. It was then that he saw things that neither of us expected to see, Octonauts toys.
He was a couple isles ahead of us and I heard him yell, “daddy, daddy, Octonauts toys”. This had to be a mistake, I thought. I knew there weren’t any toys from that series. Last spring every big box store put their Octonauts toys on clearance and hasn’t had them since.
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We were in the toy department and accidentally knocked Gas Out Game to the floor. It made an immediate ‘pfffft’ sound; the kids laughed out loud and proceeded to make their own farting noise while pointing to each other. I double timed it before they wanted to get the farting game. Fast forward a couple of weeks and we were provided with a copy of Gas Out Game. It’s a very simple game to play that ages 4 and up will enjoy playing.
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With an almost 5 and 7 year old in the house I Love Construction Vehicles and its sister, I Love Rescue Vehicles is tailor made for them. These are activity sets, with a book, models they put together, reusable stickers and a vehicle that they can play with. Each of these sets are great gifts, to quote a popular game show, if the price is right.
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Miles From Tomorrowland, season 2 has launched on television and we got a chance to play with some of the toys. Our boys are big fans of the series, loved the toys that they had and were eager to get their hand s on the new ones. “Why do they have new toys”, they asked. I explained to them that the show was not cancelled and that the new Miles From Tomorrowland toys were an addition to last years and are part of the new story line.
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National Streaming Day is May 20 and we’ve got a cool giveaway for a Roku Streaming Stick. Just like National Bacon Day or International Cat Video Day, we don’t celebrate them exclusively when the calendar planners deemed it so. We stream every day. For us it started with a piece of what is now history, the Roku 2 XS. It allowed us to cut the cable, watch better quality television-while at the same time spending less time in front of the TV and opened up worlds of children’s programming options.
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There is just something about baseball and kids. Baseball History for Kids: America at Bat from 1900 to today by Richard Panchk is aimed at that sweet spot of children being passionate about something, able to read and wanting to learn. This book is a love letter to the game of baseball, its history, the players and the fans. It also doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to addressing the dark periods in the game and history, like segregation, work strikes or other things.
Continue reading Baseball History for Kids: approachable and fun for 9 and up
Hey, we were provided with some Star Wars toys for this post. All thoughts are our own. When I was a 9 year old kid Star Wars just came out. Back then there weren’t a huge variety of Star Wars toys to play with. Left to our own devices my friends and I simply played a generic “Star Wars” game that involved a stick we found in the woods and a Frisbee, more on that later. Now kids can play with any manner of Star Wars toys and Star Wars Day, the fourth of May has expanded from beyond the geek circle to a legitimate thing.
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