Your child will love this Playtime Pad DVD Combo!

I received the Playtime Pad DVD Combo from PBS Kids in exchange for a review.

If your child loves playing on a tablet or watching movies, then he will love the Playtime Pad DVD Combo.  It is a 7" HD kid safe tablet and DVD player suitable for children as young as 2 years old.  Older children will enjoy it too, thanks to all of the awesome features.  It's on the go family entertainment on one device!  It comes preloaded with over 23 educational games, 120 video clips, songs and music videos with teacher approved subjects including literacy, math, science, social skills, school readiness and FUN! 

This combo is perfect for keeping kids entertained while at home or on the road.  It comes with a strap so you can attach it to the headrest of a car seat for kids to watch while traveling.  It features parental controls so you can customize and manage your child's entertainment experience.  You can approve or block content, manage apps, customize what is allowed for each child's profile and set a daily usage time limit and daily time frame for use.  With Google Play, you can access over 1 million applications and games, as well as having access to thousands of movies, books, songs, TV shows and magazines.

Features include a 7" HD multi touch display screen, 16 GB flash memory, 1GB RAM, WI-FI ready, Bluetooth and a Micro SD slot.  Each Playtime Pad DVD Combo comes with a USB Cable, Wall Plug, Strap, Word of the Week DVD, Quick Start Guide and Parents' Guide.

You can find the Playtime Pad DVD Combo at Walmart, both in store and online.  The manufacturers suggested retail price is $99.99.

Fend off Mosquitoes the easy way with Para'Kito

If you live or play in an area that is infested with mosquitoes, you're going to love these refillable wrist bands from Para'Kito.  

Just wear on your wrist and enjoy the outdoors without mosquitoes.  These bands are stylish and effective.  They use a blend of essential oils and patented slow-release technology to keep you from getting bitten.  Just insert one of the pellets in your band and you are good to go.  Each pellet lasts for up to 15 days and offers constant protection.  Each band comes with 2 pellets.  The bands are water proof and fully adjustable.  You can wear them on your wrist or ankle.  They are available in several different styles, colors and fashionable prints.  

The kids' bands have a special ID label for their name and your contact details.  Sports bands come in a lycra material and are reflective.  They also have an ID tag.  The new party edition bands come in lycra and feature fun, flirty designs.  

They also offer clips that you can clip on to your backpack, stroller or belt; as well as a roll on gel that you can apply to your skin.  The gel is designed for highly infested areas.  One stripe on your arms, legs or neck will give you up to 5 hours of protection.  I like the bands because you don't have to worry about reapplication.  Just put it on and forget about it.  

I live in an area where the mosquitoes are really bad.  I put one of these on and spent the whole day outside in my yard playing with my kids.  I didn't get a single mosquito bite.  These things are amazing! 

You can buy them HERE or at mass merchandisers like Amazon or Whole Foods.  Good for the whole family, all ages.  The suggested retail price is $19.50.  The Neoprene costs $19.98 and the gel costs $19.50.    

Exciting Games For Family Fun Night!

North Star Games has provided me with these products for review.

This is the Funky Chicken Card Game.  This is a 3-6 player game and is recommended for age 6 and up.  The game contains 72 cards and a Rule Book stored inside the Funky Chicken shaped pouch.  Kids will have a blast playing this!  To play, deal the cards out to the players.  Then each player turns up his top card and calls out what it says.  If two players have the same action card, then those players must act out the dance action on the card.  They may have to do the Funky Chicken, the Bump, Swing or Spin.  Once they have performed the dance action, they discard their cards.  The player that did not have a matching card must keep his card.  Next all players turn up their top cards again and call out the action.  Anyone with matching cards must perform the action.  You repeat the whole process over and over.  The first player to discard all of their cards wins!  You can purchase the Funky Chicken Card Game for $17.99 HERE.  

  
This is Wits & Wagers Party Edition.  It is a 4+ player game (the number of players is unlimited) and is recommended for ages 8 and up.  The game contains 105 Question Cards, 12 Betting Tokens, 50 Poker Chips, 6 Dry Erase Pens, 6 Dry Erase Player Boards, 1 Elvis Impersonator Board and a Rules Manual.  To play you read one of the fun questions, then everyone writes down their guess for the answer.  Then place your bets on who you think will have the correct or closest answer.  If you are confident you know the answer, bet on yourself.  If you think some one else knows the answer, bet on them.  If you have no idea, just take a wild guess and hope you are lucky!  For larger groups you can use pad and pencil or divide into teams.  We just chose 6 people to answer and the rest of the players placed the wagers.  This is a really fun game for all ages.  We enjoyed it!  You can purchase Wits & Wagers Party Edition for $24.99 HERE.      

This is Most Wanted.  It is a 2-8 player game and is recommended for age 10 and up.  The game contains a Scoreboard, 72 Playing Cards, 8 Player Tokens With Standees, 63 Money Bag Tokens, 6 Action Tiles and a Rule Book.  This is a very simple Western Themed game.  You need to be willing to take risks, double cross the other players and be able to run a bluff.  It combines the strategy of a poker game with the thrill of being an outlaw.  Playing the highest card, or being able to successfully bluff with a low one, could mean the difference between a successful train robbery or getting thrown into jail.  You can make a new start by repenting in church or working for bail money.  The first player to reach 13 points claims the honor of being MOST WANTED.  This game is great for large groups because everyone is involved even when it isn't their turn.  With 2 players, the game takes about 15 minutes to play.  With 8 players it takes about 30 minutes to play.  You can purchase Most Wanted for $24.99 HERE.  

This is Warsaw:  City of Ruins.  It is a 2-4 player game and is recommended for age 10 and up.  The game contains a Game Board, 105 City Tiles, 36 Cardboard Coins, 4 Mermaid Figures, 3 Player Aids and a Rule Book.  Players develop a district of Warsaw from the 1600's through to the present day.  Try to develop the most bustling district while withstanding the destruction brought by two World Wars.  Build residential areas, commercial complexes, cultural facilities, parks, industrial facilities and over 35 unique Warsaw buildings and landmarks.  You will be able to play over and over with new results thanks to the simple rules and deep strategy of game play.  You can purchase Warsaw:  City of Ruins for $39.99 HERE.   

Patriotic Shirts for Your Summer Wardrobe

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Are you looking for patriotic shirts?  With Memorial Day and 4th of July coming up, it's important to show your American pride with one of these 4th of July shirts.  There are many sizes and styles to choose from.  There are lots of styles for men and women.

You can pair any of these shirts with a pair of jeans, jean shorts, skirts and a pair of sandals or slides and you are ready to hit the ton town to show your patriotism!  These shirts are great for all the summer activities in your life.  You can dress these styles up for 4th of July fireworks celebration or just for a casual date.  The possibilities are endless

The flag shirts are a very popular item for men and woman.  I call this easy fashion.  You can also pair with a pair of red or navy blue carpi's or shorts and you are set. Tell me what your fave shirt is?

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Kids Love The Young Explorers Adventure Climber

Simplay3 has provided me with this product for review.  It is recommended for children age 1.5 to 6.  It will require an adult to assemble it before your children can play on it.  You can purchase it from their website for $199.99.  It is proudly made in the U.S.A.

This is the Young Explorers Adventure Climber. Kids love this thing.  It has a slide, a ladder to climb up to the upper level platform, holes and openings to crawl through and a vehicle styled center complete with a steering wheel and dash board.  Multiple children can play on this all day long.  This climber will keep your children entertained and away from the computer or TV screen! 

This can be used both indoors or outdoors.  Its super durable, double wall construction is weather and UV resistant, so it will last for years.  It has bright colors with rounded edges and corners, so there is no danger of sharp edges cutting your child.  It has an extra wide slide with easy to grip rails.  The ladder has built in hand holds so it's easy for kids to climb up to the large upper platform.  The jeep style doors and wheels are portals that children can crawl through to enter their "secret hideout fort".

You'll be surprised how big the Young Explorers Adventure Climber is compared to the size of the box.  They minimize the packaging by "puzzling" the pieces together to take up as little room as possible.

Kids can imagine the climber to be anything they want it to be.  It has the jeep like center, so they can pretend it is a jeep.  But the whole thing has a vague train shape, so they could also pretend it's a train.  That's the great thing about a kid's imagination, they can turn their climber into anything they want it to be!

I'm excited to announce that Simplay3 is kindly providing one of these climbers for us to give away to one of our lucky readers!  So please keep watching for the giveaway to be posted so you can get your entries in!   

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Spice up your Game night with Spicy Dice.

Spicy Dice provided these products to me for review.  The dice are 100% acrylic.  They are pearlized with rounded corners and edges.  They look great and roll perfectly. 

This is the Spicy Dice Main Game Pack.  These are special dice that have some of the numbers colored red and and some white.  The object of the game is to score as many points as you can in the ten boxes on your score sheet.  You can score each box only once, but you can do them in any order you choose.  First you roll all 6 of your dice.  If you roll a red number, you can turn that die into any number you choose.  But you have to do it before you roll again.  You can re-roll any dice you choose.  There isn't a limit of rolls per turn, but you only get a total of 30 rolls per game.  When you choose to end your turn, you score your dice and mark it in the box of your choice.  You also write down how many rolls you used on that turn.  Once you have all of your boxes filled in, add in your bonus if you have one.  If you use all 30 of your rolls before you've scored each box, you get a zero for the bonus and a zero in any unscored box.  Add up your total score.  Your game is now over, but the other players continue until they either use all of their rolls or have written a score in every box.  The highest score when every player is done playing wins.  If you play by the classic rules (which is what I just described) on main game pack is enough for an unlimited number of players if you share the dice.  There are also rules for alternate versions where each player will need his own dice.

You can get expansion packs to give each player his own set of dice in his own color.  The dice come in several different colors. 

This is a pouch to store your dice and score cards in.  It is included in the main game pack.

The suggested retail price of the main game is $14.95 and the suggested retail price for the expansion pack is $5.95.  You can find them on the Spicy Dice site, amazon and many independent toy stores.

You can download pdf files on their site free of charge to print your own additional score cards and rules for 2 additional games.  I thought that was really cool of them to give it to you free of charge.  Overall, Spicy Dice is a really fun game that the whole family can enjoy playing together.