Posts Tagged ‘games’

Little Pim {GIVEAWAY}

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

I have to admit, I let my kids play with my iPhone anytime I need them to keep quiet.  I have purchased apps just for them for these occasions and most are not worth the $.99 I forked over to buy them.  That was before I was introduced to Little Pim’s Word Bag for the iPhone.  This app is fun for kids, it keeps them entertained and teaches them French or Spanish!

Research has proven that children who learn a second language before the age of  five are more likely to have superior reading, writing, analytical and social skills, as well as more extensive vocabularies than their monolingual peers.  Little Pim is designed for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to learn a second or subsequent language to not only aid in their early development but also give them an advantage later in life.  Parents can now take full advantage of their young child’s natural, yet brief, proclivity for learning languages just by downloading an app!

I received a code to download a complementary Little Pim’s Word Bag app for my iPhone.  I let my 5 year old son use the app the next time we went out to dinner.  He was thrilled with it!  By the time the food was served he was asking us how to say some different words in French.  My  husband and I do not speak French so we directed him back to the app where he did find the answer to many of his questions! Besides the iPhone app Little Pim also has movies and other products to help kids have fun with new languages.  Little Pim also has movies and many other products that are designed to teach many different languages.  There are also coloring pages that are free on the Little Pim website with the word of the day!

GIVEAWAY:

Little Pim would like to give one lucky BabyElan reader a free Little Pim DVD in the language of their choice!  To enter this great contest follow the rules below!

To be eligible to win, you must:

1) Leave a comment about which language you would choose for your Little Pim DVD or the BabyElan review

Extra Entries {please leave a comment for each one}:

2) Become a Facebook Fan of the giveaway sponsor & leave a comment on their FB Page

3) Follow giveaway sponsor on Twitter & tweet about this giveaway, using the ReTweet button located at the top of the review

Although the following are not part of the entry rules, we would love it if you did the following {but PLEASE do not leave a comment for these}:

A) Subscribe to BabyElan {daily}

B) Become our Fan on Facebook

C) Follow us on Twitter

Little Pim {GIVEAWAY}

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

I love this company and its educational products. Little Pim offers a few different ways to help your child learn a second language, it can be a DVD featuring the wonderfully playful and friendly Pim the Panda or with flash cards, computer games or CD’s. Starting early is key. Times have changed, our kids are expected to know a second language and start being taught very early on in school. So help them be prepared by taking steps now to learn a small vocabulary, maybe 60 words or phrases ensuring success and no frustration when the time comes in school for them to learn. They’ll feel so confident already having been introduced and having a foundation in the language. That is just smart parenting. :-)

Young children respond enthusiastically to Little Pim’s format, a combination of animation and live action. Babies respond to black and white, therefore the panda captures the attention of even the youngest viewers. Each 35-minute DVD is segmented into seven 5-minute episodes to accommodate a young child’s attention span and encourage pausing for parent interaction. Simple sentences are broken down into easy-to-understand parts, and reinforced through repetition. Little Pim is an award-winning foreign language immersion DVD series for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Currently offering three theme-based DVDs that use our unique Entertainment Immersion Method™, which combines animation and real kids, teaching simple words and phrases for everyday activities. Each program is available individually or in a discounted three-disc set. Currently we offer Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, English (ESL), German, Arabic, and Russian. They have just released 3 new DVD’s to the series!

We received the Spanish set including the fantastic flash cards! The flash cards are surpisingly more of a hit than the DVD;s in our house. We go through the flashcards at bed time or at bath time. We pick several cards and make up a “once upon a time” story using the cards we’ve selected. Nicholas is all about pretending, making up stories so this technique works perfectly. We just got back from the beach, we brought Little Pims flash card box set with us and found it was a great way to spend 30 minutes in the car! Nice! This handsomely boxed set of sixty beautifully illustrated flash cards features Little Pim the panda and introduces basic words and phrases in Spanish. One side of each card includes a translation and phonetic transcription for adults; the other is the drawing alone. Each card indicates the Little Pim DVD on which the word or phrase is introduced.

GIVEAWAY!! One winner gets a DVD and flashcard set from LITTLE PIM of your language choice! If the winning contest entrant is also a fan of Little Pim on Facebook, you’ll also receive a Little Pim plush panda for your tot! Contest ends in one week, good luck!! MONICA YAGLE IS OUR FEATURE WINNER!

NEW GIVEAWAY RULES – Please note that we will only accept a maximum of 3 entries per person, as outlined below.

To be eligible to win, you must:

1) Leave a comment about the giveaway product or the BabyElan guest post Extra Entry {please leave a comment}:

2) Become a Facebook Fan of the giveaway sponsor & leave a comment on their FB Page {Little Pim}

3) Sign up for their e-newsletter

Although the following are not part of the entry rules, we would love it if you did the following {but PLEASE do not leave a comment for these}:

A) Subscribe to BabyElan {daily}

B) Become our Fan on Facebook

C) Follow us on Twitter

Musicolor

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Kids love to create!  I haven’t met a child who isn’t proud of something they drew or a song they learned to sing.  MusiColor combines these two childhood favorites and will cause hours of fun and many, many smiles as a result!

Each music disc comes as a blank canvas for kids to color.  The disc and markers are a “paint by letter” concept which allow kids to easily know which color goes where.  {Marker A colors all the A’s on the disc and so on.}  Once the disc has been colored kids insert it onto the player and the colors magically turn into music! {Choose to hear each song played by a piano, violin or horn!}  These are songs that most kids are familiar with and can sing right along with them.  There are also additional markers and discs available for purchase outside of the main MusicColor Kit.  That is always a bonus for me since there is nothing worse than having your child fall in love with a toy that can’t be replenished.   

     

Our family received our own MusiColor to try out.  My five year old son couldn’t wait to get started.  As a preschooler he is very proud of his polished coloring abilities and made sure to point out to me how well he had colored inside the lines on the first disc he worked on.  It was also fun for him to use the “record player” by himself and he thought it was magic that his picture turned into a song.  My daughter who is almost three LOVES to dance and has so much fun during the “dance parties” we have with our MusiColor.  Although she is still working on her coloring skills she knows her colors and we used the markers to work on her letter recognition.  My little Mozart also likes to color on the blank discs to make her own music!

To find a musicolor for your kids visit them at Musicolor or deltacreative.com.  Delta Creative is an award winning company with toys you and your kids will love!  Enjoy!

Little Pim {GIVEAWAY}

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Here is an exciting innovative educational tool you can use at home with your baby, toddler or pre-schooler, Little Pim!   When I look at my pre-schooler I hope I am doing everything I humanly can to encourage creativity, intelligence, spontaneity and success.  For a pre-schooler that really just means doing some great crafts, counting to 30, tracing letters and being polite :-)   But we all want our kids to strive, be successful, confident, and brilliant.

Little Pim is literally a cute cartoon panda bear character who teachers your child a foreign language using the Entertainment Emersion Method.   The entire DVD is spoken by native speakers, and words are presented and repeated at regular intervals. Each Little Pim DVD focuses on sixty words and phrases typically acquired in a toddler’s primary language, providing the essential building blocks for language acquisition.

Little Pim DVDs are designed and paced for developing minds. Young children respond enthusiastically to Little Pim’s format, a combination of animation and live action. Babies respond to black and white, therefore the panda captures the attention of even the youngest viewers. Each 35-minute DVD is segmented into seven 5-minute episodes to accommodate a young child’s attention span and encourage pausing for parent interaction. Simple sentences are broken down into easy-to-understand parts, and reinforced through repetition.

We were lucky enough to receive the set above as a sample for Nicholas.  It is amazing to sit and hear Nicholas just repeat the words while playing, he laughs at himself having fun doing something completely different and entertaining to him :-)   I was impressed at how quickly the panda character caught my busy 3 year old attention but I think too that it was interesting for Nicholas to see kids his age saying these words in Spanish, “if they can do it, so can I”.

You have to check out Little Pim’s website to fully appreciate this fabulous children’s entertainment and learning series.  If you have the desire of giving your child an edge, of opening doors, broadening horizons for him then help him learn a foreign language, now.  According to much research, many scientist, now is the very best time to help your child learn a foreign language.

Use the flashcards, DVD’s, stuffed Panda toy or music CD’s to get your child interested in learning any of the nine choices of languages.   AND interestingly, Little Pim is going digital with a new iPhone application!  How fun is that, you child can play games anywhere anytime.  Little Pim Word Bag, developed by Animax, is an interactive word game featuring Little Pim the panda. The game uses adorable artwork, music and sound effects to teach children 27 everyday vocabulary words in a second language – French or Spanish. “Word Bag” costs $1.99 to download and can be used on both an iPhone and an iPod.

There really is too much to say in one feature, you must visit the Little Pim website to understand how wonderful this learning tool is.  After all, Little Pim is designed by Julia Pimsleur Levine a uniquely previous filmmaker, language teacher, and now mother who is also the daughter of Dr. Paul Pimsleur, who created one of the most popular and acclaimed audio teaching language methods for adults.  So obviously Little Pim is a masterpiece of exceptional expertise in the area of educating language to people old and young :-)

Enter to win a free Little Pim DVD of your choice (10 languages to choose from). Just go to LittlePim.com and comment on one blog post. http://www.littlepim.com. Be sure to enter your email address in the appropriate field so you can be contacted if you win! If the winner is also a Little Pim newsletter subscriber, they will also be sent a Little Pim plush panda.

Good luck!

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Bruce the Moose {GIVEAWAY}

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

As a former Alaskan who has spotted several moose during my arctic tenure and also an obsessed iphone owner I believe I am very qualified to report that Bruce the Moose is awesome!  Not only is he fun for kidos to play hide and seek with on an iPhone and very reasonably priced {$0.99 for a limited time} but he is also completely adorable!

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I was given a one time complimentary copy of Bruce to download onto my iphone to try out.  I let the “experts” at my house try to find Bruce and both experts {my 2 year old and 5 year old} loved the game.  They had so much fun with him I downloaded my own permanent copy of Bruce for them to play again and again!  You can also become a fan of Bruce on Facebook!  {He is Bruce Moose if you want to look him up.}

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Find Bruce is really a simple game, just touch the rocks, flowers, trees etc. to look for Bruce.  These animated objects will smile and jump if Bruce is not behind them.  When you do Find Bruce he jumps out from behind the object and smiles!  A perfect game to play while waiting for food at a restaurant or while shopping.  Since the game is fairly simple even the little ones can join in on the fun!

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GIVEAWAY!  Three lucky BabyLuxe readers will win their very own copy of Find Bruce for their iPhone.  To enter just post why you would like a copy of this fun game! {This game can only be purchased from the American iTunes Store}  This contest will run for one week!  Good luck!

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Tweet {daily}

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Blog about this giveaway and provide us the link

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