We will be headed out to Splish Splash Waterpark in a little more then a week, and we wanted to share a discount code with you so you can save when you go as well!
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See you soon at the waterpark! Don’t forget the towels 🙂
Nintendo has touched millions of families all over the world with its much-loved characters and games. Parents can rekindle the magic of the Nintendo world that shaped their childhood and share the wonderful memories with their kids this summer at the upcoming Play Nintendo Tour. Inspired by the Play Nintendo website, Nintendo’s fun, engaging and age-appropriate online destination for kids and families, the 12-city tour will visit malls and other locations across the United States. The tour will bring the magic of Nintendo to life with playable Nintendo 3DS games starring characters like Mario, Kirby and Donkey Kong from June 17 to Sept. 5. There will be exciting contests, amazing prizes (while supplies last) and photo opportunities. This one-of-a-kind experience bursts with color and imagination to offer parents a fun and engaging way to spend time with their kids. Best of all, the tour is free for everyone.
“With the Play Nintendo Tour, there’s a surprise around every corner for kids and kids at heart,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “The tour’s massive play area is filled with Nintendo 3DS games and charming worlds themed around classic games and characters.”
Visitors can hop into a Yoshi egg to play Yoshi’s New Island, recline on a giant banana while checking out Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and relax in pink beanbag chairs to play one of the newest games, Kirby: Planet Robobot, which launches on June 10. People who are into cool family photos or amazing selfies can take some snaps next to a huge Kirby figure, beside an oversized Yoshi egg, inside a barrel flanked by Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong, under a devastating blue Spiny Shell in the Mario Kart 7 area or next to a giant Pokéball in the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire region. The New Super Mario Bros. 2 section features a photogenic flagpole, stacks of coins and a warp pipe, while the YO-KAI WATCH area makes people look like they have stepped into Springdale, the town in the game, complete with mischievous Yo-kai lurking about.
At each location, visitors can compete for a chance to win prizes (while supplies last) and play games on a video wall shaped like a giant Nintendo 3DS system. The Play Nintendo Tour is scheduled to visit the following locations:
To extend the tour online, the Play Nintendo website features many additional activities that kids and families can enjoy. Kids can create their own Super Mario Maker wallpaper, take a quiz to learn their Pokémon type, discover their Mushroom Kingdom BFF and many more creative and surprising things. For more information about the Play Nintendo Tour, visit https://play.nintendo.com/tour
Remember that Nintendo 3DS features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii U™ and Wii™ home consoles, and Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ families of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.4 billion video games and more than 693 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™, Nintendo GameCube™ and Wii systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at http://www.nintendo.com.
Now that the sun is finally starting to peek its head around the clouds and warm that nip out of the air its time to start thinking about family trips. As with most family trips kids will of course be coming, drat. But fear not human parents, with the help of Scholastic there are many tips to be found to make the most of your trip, either during the school year or just making it through a long car or plane ride.
In our house Dad likes his audio books in the car while Mom can’t stand them, but what if the audio books were more kid centered. With audio books the longest of rides are simply eaten away at with a good story and an enthusiastic reader. Scholastic has a few suggestions for children of all ages and I am sure if Mom, Dad and little one look through the list together they will find at least one story they can all enjoy together.
If audio books aren’t for you there are also tablets for the kids and adults, as well as portable music players and digital games for little kids, big kids and adult kids. With your in flight entertainment figured out its time to wrap your head around school work. What are some ways to keep your kid stimulated and learning while on vacation?
Below are a few tips from Scholastic:
1) Give your teacher the heads up at least a week before hand, they will be happy to keep your child in the know with current school work.
2) Double check supplies, make sure you have pens, pencils, crayons, notebooks, etc. Especially if leaving the country or going to a more rural area where office supply stores are not available.
3) Stay in touch, check the class website, email the teacher, etc.
4) Every day is a learning experience if you look and be creative, have your child journal her experiences and feelings (reinforces ELA connections and mindfulness), research the destination (underscores study skills and social studies concepts), bring her own independent reading book for the trip (always a good idea), help calculate mileage and a budget for souvenirs (enhances math connections) are a few suggestions.
5) remember bed time stories, keep the bed time rituals going and read as often as possible. Keep a book log and find topics relevant to your trip. Going to New York City, find a book about it, etc.
6) Bring a tablet or laptop, the internet is a wealth of information for kids and parents from tutorials to video lessons, a topic is just a few clicks away.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Disney. The opinions and text are all mine.
Star Fox has quickly become one of the fun Nintendo staples for each of its consoles, from his debut on the Super Nintendo right on through to the Wii U with Star Fox Zero.
Each one builds upon the familiar, rails shooting style to open area dog fights, while building up on new vehicles as well as mechanics.
In addition to the familiar Arwing, which is Star Fox’s memorable space craft, there are also the Walker which is a bird type running hopping transformation of the Arwing. The Land master is a tank design which can also perform on ground rolls from side to side adding much needed mobility to the force of destruction. The newest addition is the Gyrowing and Direct-i. This combo vehicle includes a slow moving but very mobile helicopter feeling hover craft which is attached to a small drone type robot which can collect items as well as hack computer systems.
Star Fox has also brought some classic friends along for the adventure this time around as well, including the tough guy falcon, Falco Lombardi, the troublesome Slippy Toad, and the tactician Peppy Hare.
The enemies are varied and a blast to mow through a galaxy of more then 9 locations. Also Star Fox Zero interfaces with the Fox McCloud Amiibo as well as the Falco Lonbardi figure. Both of which unlock new Arwing designs for Fox to use.
The controls do take some learning to master, but with the proper amount of trying and learning the game mechanics are easy to get into. My son was more drawn to the Star Fox Guard game, while Dad liked Star Fox Zero. For fans of the series you are going to have fun, for new comers this is also a nice way to get your feet wet in the gorgeous graphics and fast paced gameplay of a Star Fox dog fight.
Star Fox Zero is out now for the retail prices of $59.99 and includes a second tower defense type game called Star Fox Guard.
Disclosure- We received this game in order to review it. All opinions are our own and honest. For more, see “I Disclose”.
This is a game for adult players. While there is no outright “acts”, there are some allusions that in my opinion make this not the best game for young gamers. My husband played this game, enjoyed it, and has reviewed it below. There are interactions with other characters in the game that are a bit grown up, such as blowing on them, touching faces, flirting, and other things of that nature. Nothing major, but a little to adult for kids for my personal taste.
Fire Emblem is the long running RPG with tactical movements on a grid environment. Each environment has various obstacles and story line elements from Dragon Veins to deep canyons. The series spans over 15 games and often refers to a weapon or shield seen as the power of war and dragons. Each character has a turn in your party and then the enemy gets a turn for each of their characters. There are also ally characters who you help and defend throughout the course of the game. The most striking element of this game is the story line. It starts out as many role playing games do, with a lost main character just trying to fit in. From there, it spins out of control and an important decision must be made- stay with the family that raised you, side with you biological family, or choose neither. Depending on your pick is which game you will play each with its own unique story which weaves your player into some interesting adventures and situations.
Fire Emblem Fates : Birthright has you side with your biological family, Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest with the family which raised you and Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation has you side with neither. Each story is fun to play and is in its own right a fully developed tale, but to get the true entire story all three games should be played. This can add up to quite a bit of money if each game is purchased separately, but if purchased together in the Special Edition bundle you receive not only all three games on one cartridge on game release without having to wait for Revelations to become available but you also receive a 3DS carrying pouch and a hardcover art book featuring some of the stunning artwork from the game.
Fire Emblem Fates Birthright and Fire Emblem Fates Conquest retail for $39.99 each and the Special Edition with all three games retails for $79.99. And will be available 02/19/16. While Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation will be available for download on 03/10/16 for $19.99 or on 02/19/16 with the Special Edition.
It is that time again, for a new Alvin and The Chipmunks movie. This time, we follow the hilarious antics of our favorite singing woodland creatures as they go cross country to save their friendship- or is it their family? This movie is meant for the little ones in the audience and as such, the story line is easy to follow. Dave, the Chipmunks manager/father figure, is enjoying time with his new girlfriend Samantha, and they go on a trip to Miami.
The chipmunks suspect there are other plans afoot, an engagement and try to foil Dave’s plan. Their main issue with the engagement is having Samantha’s son Miles in their lives. Not a nice kid. In an increasingly chaotic adventure, the Chipumks and Miles team up to get to Miami and work together to bring Dave and Samantha apart. In the process, they all learn about working together and get closer then expected.
My son loved this movie. He likes the songs, and the Chipmunks TV show is one he has always enjoyed.
Alvin also enjoyed taking a “Road Chip” of his own with us to NYC. He had so much fun with my son as we traveled around, and explored some of the most fun spots and famous places in the city. Here he is at the Museum of Natural History.
He joined us at our 4H Club meeting.
He enjoyed sitting on the iconic “Wayne’s World” couch and set at the SNL Exhibit- still open and worth the visit!
He saw the majesty that was “King Tut” at the pop up exhibit- so much gold! He was just blown away, ha.
Sadly, he was eaten by Spongebob Squarepants at Madame Tussauds. It was a dark, tragic day.
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We just saw the new live action version of Disney’s “The Jung;e Book”. My son loved the animated version, as well as Rudyard Kipling’s story. As a huge animal lover, I knew he would love this one, and he certainly did. It’s a little dark for the littlest viewers (there is some animal violence, nothing graphic at all) but some of the little peanuts got scared, so be warned.
My boy is 8, and I think he is a great age for this movie. My husband and I really enjoyed it as well, and I’m not a person to go nuts for children’s movies. It was sweet, kept everyone’s attention, and was really, really well done. Not to mention the voices were fun- especially Christopher Walken as King Louie, haha.
Fun “Easter Egg” moment- Mowgli in the monkey temple. Fans of SNL and Walken in general will get a kick out of this fun moment.
My son can’t wait to see it again, and has been raving about it to all his friends. It’s a very different movie then the animated version you are used to and have seen, and I think you will like it. I don’t want to give much away, but I recommend it highly. The Jungle Book opens this Friday, make sure to grab your tickets and head in.
Cast: Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, Neel Sethi and Christopher Walken,
Synopsis: “The Jungle Book” is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub raised in the jungle by a family of wolves, who embarks on a captivating journey of self-discovery when he’s forced to abandon the only home he’s ever known. “The Jungle Book” seamlessly blends live-action with photorealistic CGI animals and environments, using up-to-the-minute technology and storytelling techniques to immerse audiences in an enchanting and lush world.
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