LeapFrog Touch Magic Rock n' Learn Party

We got an amazing opportunity this month  to Host a LeapFrog Touch Magic Rock n' Learn Party. 

First Up for the Party the Touch Magic Rockin' Guitar:

Little touches. Big learning.™
• Amp up the learning fun and create and perform music while building motor skills and confidence!
• Includes guitar, percussion and special effect sounds—even applause.
• Ten different learning songs let little musicians layer in sounds and create their own unique music.
• The Touch Magic Rockin' Guitar is appropriate for children ages 3+ years.
• Parents can connect to the online LeapFrog® Learning Path for customized learning insights and ideas to expand the learning.

The girls taking there turn at the party!

The Touch Magic Rockin' Guitar teaches: 

Music: Making and listening to music can increase a child's creativity as well as support language, math, and physical development.

Social play: As children get older, they interact more often with one another during play--making things, dramatizing, or playing games.

Motor Skills: Motor skills allow children to coordinate the muscles needed to pull, push, grasp, point, and write.

Price $24.99 and you can Click Hear to get it. 

The kids loved this little guitar its super easy to use touch the on button and it starts playing strum the guitar faster and the song play faster. Its got some cute songs on it that the kids already knew so they could sing along. They had a blast taking turns with it and seeing who could sing the song the fastest. It runs on 3AAA batteries they are included and so far we haven't had to change them. I love that its got volume control on the back Lo and HI. Hi is not as loud as I expected which is a good thing when the girls insist on playing it while I am trying to write this review.  It does not have raised strings the face of the guitar is completely smooth. No groves for gunk to get stuck in. Its simple enough that even the smaller kids enjoyed it. we did take off the strap for the little ones to be sure they did not get it tangled around there neck or other body part. It is very light weight so its perfect for little ones to rock out with.

Second UP in the Touch Magic Rock n' Learn Party is the Touch Magic Learning Bus. Hears what the product is about:

Little touches. Big learning.™
• Hop on board for fun with the alphabet, early vocabulary, motor skills and learning songs!
• Make a movement or touch a sensor to activate the bus and get the learning journey rolling.
• Switch between 3 modes: Learning, Letter Exploration and Music, which includes fun sing-along songs about the alphabet, motion and more.
• The Touch Magic Learning Bus is appropriate for children ages 2+ years.
• Parents can connect to the online LeapFrog® Learning Path for customized learning insights and ideas to expand the learning.

This is what it teaches:

Letter names and sounds: To read independently, children must understand the relationship between the sounds in spoken words and the letters that represent those sounds.

Early vocabulary: Children expand their listening vocabulary by matching pictures to words.

Music: Making and listening to music can increase a child's creativity as well as support language, math, and physical development.

Animals: Even very young children can begin to categorize animals by species, imitate their sounds and learn interesting facts about them.

Price $24.99 and you can click hear to get it.

The Smaller Kids loved this one. The music is great its got a lot of my favorite songs on it. Like the touch Magic Rock n' Learn guitar the face is completely smooth so no places for gunk to get trapped. It has both a High and Lo volume on it. Runs on 3AAA batteries and they are holding out quite well we haven't had to change them yet. The little ones seemed to like making there own music with the piano keys and  hearing the animal sounds. The Touch Magic Learning Bus is also very light weight so its easy to carry around the house.

All the Kids had a great time at the touch Magic Rock n' Learn Party Jamming to some tunes and Playing all the fun games they sent us. Great Job LeapFrog! Thanks for another fun product.


We received the materials for the Tough Magic Rock n' Learn Party free of charge as part of a Mom Select Party Hosting Package. The kids had a great time Thanks LeapFrog and Mom Select!!! 

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I found this great little online store this week called Cover your Hair. They have a huge selection of Hair accessories bows, flowers, feathers, head bands, hats and much much more. The prices are very reasonable. Ranging from under $5 to around $25.  Standard shipping is $4.99 or for orders over $30 you can get free super saver shipping check there site for details.  http://www.coveryourhair.com/. I found a  tone of thing there that me and the girls would love to have.

www.coveryourhair.com is super easy to navigate. There are categories along the side of the site so you can easily find what you are looking for. There are even some great how to videos if you need to learn how to tie one of there soft head bands.  We got to try out a couple items. A cute little fedora hat and a beautiful metal leaf head band.  The items arrived with in a few days I was very pleased with it. The fedora is super cute, my daughter snatched it from me. Its held up well and still looks nice and that's saying a lot considering my 5 year old has been wearing it all week. I love the the Metal leaf head band it looks so cute with my new hair cut. I love the delicate design of it and its actually more comfortable than I expected usually I hate hard head bands because they make my head hurt right behind my ears. This one is way more comfortable than most of the ones I have tried from other stores.  www.coveryourhair.com has tone of great hair accessories so if you are looking for some great priced hair accessories this is a good place to go.

the look she gave me when I ask if I could try the fedora

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LeapFrog Tag Human Body Discovery Pack #LeapFrogTag #spon

                                                      

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This week I was given the opportunity to Review a product by LeapFrog. The Tag Human Body Discovery Pack. Before I get to that part of the review I want to explaining what the Tag Reading system in-case you haven't discovered this great learning tool. Tag is a reading system that brings stories to life with sound effects, the voices of there favorite characters, and exciting activities. The Tag system has a library of 60+ books, maps and more. The Tag system is designed to help guide your child on a reading adventure.

The Tag Human body Discover Pack Its a 5 piece set that brings learning fun about the human body and nutrition facts. You use the tag reader to bring the human body chart to life. It teaches all the amazing things that make up the human body and how different parts of the body work together. Its got a two sided interactive chart and game board. It reinforces learning through 300+ responses and over 40 activities. With an interactive growth chart and interactive glow in the dark stickers the possibilities are endless. The Tag Human Body Discovery Pack sells for $19.99 and you can click hear to find it on the Leapfrog site. Don't forget that the tag reader is required to use the Human Body Discovery Pack.

I gave the Hot Rod Princess a quick demonstration of how the tag system worked. She picked it up very quick and was excited to start exploring. I had to pry her away from it to get her to come eat dinner. Its always great to see your kids get excited to learn something new. I was amazed at how much information she has picked up from the Tag Human Body Discovery Pack. She really loved the skeletal system, she has walked around for two days no feeling the bones in our hands, feet, arms and legs even naming a few. She surprised her POP when she informed him that the bones in his fingers were called phalanges and that muscles made her hand open and close. She has spent a lot of time with it each morning and is now asking for more Tag books. Snoopy gets a kick out of hearing it talk and loves to sit next to the Hot Rod Princess while she is working. She loves the wash your hands song its quite catchy and we have begun singing and danging to it when we wash our hands. The tooth brushing song is the Hot Rod Princesses favorite song she likes to play it while she is brushing her teeth at night. I have to admit its a fun song.

The Tag Human body Discovery Pack is helping me to teach the girls about the Human body and good nutrition. I have to admit I love interactive learning products and so do the girls. The two sided interactive chart is cool. You can touch everything on it to learn something new. We had a great time exploring the human body and I even re learned a few things I had forgotten.  We set up the interactive growth chart and the girls took turns marking there height on it. Since they both celebrated there birthdays this week we got try out the Birthday stickers. The stickers are interactive so when you touch the birthday sticker the Tag reader say's This marks your height on your birthday and cheers the girls got a kick out of it. The Hot Rod Princess now wants to loose her first tooth just so she can put the interactive tooth sticker on the growth chart. The Human Body Discovery Pack comes with some other interactive stickers that the girls have really enjoyed. We love that it talks to you so its great for a little independent learning time.  I like the games because they help to reinforce what they have learned. But the girls like them because they are fun. Me and The Hot Rod Princess have a lot of fun with the Making healthy choices game. We even make games of our own using the Interactive stickers to see who can get the most bones and muscles right.

Leapfrog's Got a video available so you can see the Tag Human Body Discovery Pack in Action check it out its very cool.
Tag Human Body:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9ROt7OplE



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LeapFrog Tag Get Ready for Kindergarten #LeapFrogTag #spon

Thank you to LeapFrog for sponsoring this review.  For more information about LeapFrog Tag Get Ready for Kindergarten, please click hear to visit their website #LeapFrogTag #spon

 I want to start by explaining what the Tag Reading system in-case you haven't discovered this great learning tool. Tag is a reading system that brings stories to life with sound effects, the voices of there favorite characters, and exciting activities. The Tag system has a library of 60+ books, maps and more. The Tag system is designed to help guide your child on a reading adventure.

As most of my readers know we have started home schooling our two girls.  I was given the opportunity by LeapFrog to review Tag Get Ready For Kindergarten.  To say I was was excited when I got the news we had been selected would be putting it mildly. I believe I may even have jumped up and down a little like my 5 year old does.

Tag Get Ready for Kindergarten is a book that you use with the Tag Reader.  Tag get ready for kindergarten is designed for ages 4-6 years old. It is a multi subject book that builds essential skills in reading,math, social studies and science to help kids prepare for success in school. The Tag Get Ready for Kindergarten book $13.99. Now keep in mind you need to have the Tag reader in order to use the book. You can check it out hear at http://shop.leapfrog.com/leapfrog/jump/Tag%22-Get-Ready-for-Kindergarten/productDetail/Tag-Reading-System-Bundle-Software/TAG21212/cat80030

As a new home schooling mom I am loving this Book it covers some of the basics that my kindergartner needs to know. Letter sounds, vowels, and it even covers some sight words, consonant blending. For math it touches base on  patterns, skip counting, and basic addition and subtraction. It even has a calender and the months. It also explains the different seasons. I love the little interactive community were my daughter can touch on different places and people and learn about what they do there. Its got a page on dinosaurs I love the sounds they make and the information it tells about them. There is a Feelings Funhouse where children can explore different emotions. I also love how crystal clear the tag reader is. The voices are amazingly clear and the enunciation on each word is great my girls have no trouble understanding what it says. 

I gave the Hotrod Princess the Tag Get Ready for Kindergarten book and the tag reader and gave her a quick demo on the first page of how to work it. She understood how it works right from the start. She wanted everyone to know that she thinks it is "wicked cool" which says a lot coming from the girl who is easily board now days.  She loved that it helps her sound out the hard words that she does not know. I love that it has a lot of the sight words that she already knows. So she can read most of the book on her own with out needing the tag reader to sound it out for her. The great sound effects and voices of her favorite characters make her smile and keep her attention. I love seeing there smiles as they learn something new.  The HotRod Princess gave Snoopy some instructions on how to work it because "that's what big sisters do mom" Snoopy loves that she can touch the tag reader to the purple book and it will read the page to her. A blessing when I am working with the HotRod Princess on another activity. They both love the games that you can do on each page and I feel that they help reinforce the key concepts that each page is teaching. tag Get Ready For Kindergarten is a great book and I cant wait to expand out Tag Library.

Leapfrog put out a new video for Tag Get ready for Kindergarten come see it in action
Tag Get Ready for Kindergarten:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpvffO5laBE

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Ultimate SandBag

                                                                                                                                                                                         

I have been looking for some new exercise equipment but had not really found anything that sparked my interest.  That is in tell I spotted the Ultimate Sand Bag  http://www.ultimatesandbagtraining.com/  I have the

Ultimate Sandbag Training: POWER PACKAGE it sells for $99.99 Its comes with the outer bag that is 19Lx9w and two 10-15lbs filler bags, and a Training DVD that has six workouts. Its really a simple system you take the two filler bags and put sand in them you mad put more or less sand depending on how heavy you would like your Ultimate Sand Bag to be. Then you put the filler bags inside of the outer bag and then sip and snap it up. Its super easy to set up and very compact.

My daughter helping me show off
the Ultimate Sand bag is got 20lbs of sand

Iv had the Ultimate Sand Bag for about a month now i wanted to really test it out. I cant believe how much I have been using it. Its very versatile you can do just about any exercise with it that you would do with a set of free weights. The sand gives it a bit more of a challenge as it moves and shifts around. The ultimate sand bag has handles at different positions on the bag so you can grip it easily for different exercises. I love that is gives me an alternative to my standard work out so I can change things up a bit. I have defiantly noticed added muscle tone in areas that I was having trouble with since I started using the Ultimate Sand Bag. I am burning more calories in a shorter amount of time, for a mom that's a major bonus. I think the training DVD offers a good variety of work outs. They also offer additional free work outs on there site which I have found very helpful when I want to change up my work out. I think my favorite exercise is the clean and press it has given my shoulders and back amazing definition.  I also love doing squats and walking lunges with the Ultimate sand bag. I found it to be great for circuit  training, I don't have to swap equipment and I can transition from one exercise to the next.  I love that changing the weight of my sand bag is so easy I can add some sand or take some out depending on what I plan on doing for the day. It is a very tough bag, Great quality stitching and reinforcement at the stress points. Its sure to hold up for a long time to come. I think the possibilities with the Ultimate Sand Bad are endless. If you looking for great At home fitness equipment give a Ultimate Sand Bag a try. Its very affordable and small enough to stuff behind my couch. I would love to try out the new Water/sand bag filler so I think using water in my Ultimate Sand bag would another great way to enhance my work outs.

Disclosure: I received this product at no cost for review. All opinions are my own or what my kids thought of the product. 

Gutzy Gear Party

A sample of our Gutzy gear Party Items

So you probably want to know what Gutzy Gear is right? Gutzy Gear is a great way to express yourself by customizing your backpack, Sports duffel, messenger bag, and a lot more! Gutzies are cool removable patches. They stick to a Gutzy strap cover tat you can put on any strap. There are 56 Gutzies in a series and new Gutzies are constantly being introduced. Kids can collect and trade them friends and family. Gutzy Gear is about showing the world who you are in a fun way.  Check it out hear http://www.gutzygear.com

A few of the Kids showing off there Gutzy

This past weekend we held a Gutzy Gear Party at our house. We called up friends and family and ask them to come over. With a bunch of kids piled around the table we played some Gutzy games had some snacks, and got the kids excited about going back to school. I started out by giving each one of the kids a Gutzy strap cover. I opened up all the Qutzy patches and put them in a big bowl in the middle of the table and we let the kids take turns picking out a Patch to put on there Gutzy strap. We had a few arguments over who got watch patch but once they found out they could take them off and on and trade them around they were excited. The kids ended up trading patches several time by the time they went home. They all left excited about heading back to school in a few weeks to show off there new Gutzy Gear. I even loved them and made some for my camera bag and now I want the Shady and beach bum Gutzy.

The Strap covers sell for about $9.99 and the Gutzys sell for about $4.99 and you get two in a pack. Not a bad price for something fun for your kids to do that they can use and change around all year long.  If you don't want to order your Gutzy Gear on line you can find them at Walmart, Target, K-mart, and Toys r us.

We received the materials for the Gutzy Gear party free of charge as part of a Mom Select Party Hosting Package. The kids had a great time Thanks Gutzy Gear and Mom Select!!!