The Speaking Spelling Bee is a really fun handheld game that helps you spell and kids who like spelling bee games should get it. I mostly like it when I do the hard words I’ve never spelled before. And you can hook it up to the TV and play it! It’s pretty cool. You can have a tournament against other people, or you can play by yourself.

Flip Words 2 is another word game and it’s kind of like hangman. Lots of fun! Oh, and here’s a code for 40% off at Brighter Minds! It’s KIDS40.

We also have some computer software that’s fun to use. Corel Painter Essentials 4 is digital art. It lets you turn photos into paintings or sketches. It’s pretty cool for bigger kids and adults.

If you like to do art and learn about art, you should try Creativity Express. It has games and it teaches you art basics and about artists and famous paintings.

Don’t forget about our cookbook and headphones giveaway!

Liberty

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Do you have a whole family you have to buy for? What if you got them all of the stuff they would need to go on an eco-conscious picnic together? They could have lots of fun together and help the environment. A bunch of different companies that like to help the environment sent us some things to test out and we thought it would be a good idea to put them all together to be an eco-conscious picnic set! Here are some things that we tested out and we like to use on a picnic:

• A blanket! Ours is an eco-friendly charcoal heather blanket from Zip N Go that folds up into its own carrying case. And it keeps our butt warm and dry when the ground is wet and cold.
• Cloth napkins! We used Happikins napkins with a handy pouch, and a Fabkins napkin. Both brands have really cute styles to choose from, and using cloth napkins doesn’t waste paper.
• Stainless steel water bottles! Our friends at Baying Hound gave us a Kleen Kanteen to try out and we liked it! It has a wide mouth so we could pour stuff in it better. We also got a cool one from Tappenings. Now we don’t have to use plastic bottles!
• A bag for stuff! Tappenings also sent us a bag made from recycled water bottles and yogurt containers. We stuffed our rollerblades and helmets in it.
• A game! We like Girl Mogul’s Conversations to Go game. It gives us lots of interesting things to talk about while we’re saving the environment.
• Nature books! Give some books about nature so the whole family can learn about the environment while they’re on their picnic. We like Take a Winter Nature Walk by Jane Kirkland. She also wrote all kinds of other Take a Walk books.

Families would love to get this kind of stuff for Christmas!

Lena

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Kids who LOVE High School Musical and Hannah Montana should get the Hannah Montana DVD Game and the High School Musical DVD game! They’re coming out on November 18th and they are really fun! My favorite is the charades game. On the Hannah Montana one it’s called “Hellooo Drama!” and on the HSM game it’s called “Drama Class”! You can sing and play the drums and other stuff on it! There’s even a trivia quiz! On the High School Musical my favorite one is the Career Finder Quiz! It asks you questions and at the end it will tell you what your job should be! It’s really cool! I should be a lifeguard.

Don’t forget, we’re giving away 2 books: Totally Vegetarian and Smelly Locker. Just click here to go to the giveaway post and answer the easy-peasy question. You have until 4:00 Sunday!

And keep checking back because you won’t even believe what else we’re giving away between now and Christmas.

Liberty

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Zingo by ThinkFun is a fun game for big kids, but mostly it’s fun for little kids because Zingo teaches little kids how to read! Even though it teaches you stuff, it’s still fun. But don’t give it to kids who cry when they lose. But still, it’s a fun game.

And we have a brand-new giveaway! We’re giving away something for grown-ups and something for kids: A book called Totally Vegetarian: Easy, Fast, Comforting Cooking for Every Kind of Vegetarian by Toni Fiore, and a book called Smelly Locker: Silly Dilly School Songs by Alan Katz! So whoever wins gets 2 things! Just enter by answering this question: What’s your favorite movie? If you are a grown-up, what was your favorite movie as a kid? Right now my favorite movie is Naruto and the Legend of the Stone Gelel.

Liberty

This contest closes November 16 at 4:00pm EST

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Ready, set, bake! The youngsters around here really love this fast-paced game. Each child chooses a recipe card and then they race to collect the necessary ingredients for their cookies. If they get the rotten egg, they have to put all of their ingredients back and start over. Lots of fun for the younger set.

We promise we will announce the winners of The Blue Elephant DVD giveaway later today. Right now, the kids are all too sleepy and grumpy from the horrors of waking up that they can’t even pick a number out of a bucket. Tune in later.

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