I’m so jealous! These look so fun. I wish they would have had these when I was growing up!

You can find more information about the Style Six line visit Jakks Pacific.

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Over 300 merchants have already signed up to participate in this year’s Free Shipping Day, and founder Luke Knowles expects more than 500 merchants will be participating by the time the date gets here. Some of the merchants that have already confirmed they are participating include Toys R Us, JCPenney, Apple Store, Nike, Sears, Babies R Us, Eddie Bauer, PacSun, PetSmart, and Adidas. If you order on December 17th, participating stores will deliver by Christmas Eve, if items are in stock.

If you have gifts you need to order online, or gifts you’ll need to have delivered, keep December 17th in mind.

You can find more information, and find out all the merchants who are participating at the Free Shipping Day website.

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The Girl Gourmet Sweets Candy Jewelry Factory allows girls to design, bake, wear and eat scrumptious candy jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets and rings. The set features a small baking oven and a variety of molds to create jewelry charms and sweet gems. Kids fill the molds with the candy chips and pellets included in the set and add colorful sprinkles to decorate.

Next up the Girl Gourmet Sweets Candy Bead Studio where girls can create their own necklaces and bracelets with candy beads and pendants strung on licorice rope. Then they can use the edible ink to stamp, draw cool designs or write their favorite sayings. With the studio kids can make 24 uniquely edible necklaces & bracelets!

Girls can create edible rings with the Girl Gourmet Sweets Candy Ring Maker! Just add your favorite candy rings to a plastic ring-base. The ring is then rolled, dipped. Then spread or paint with icing and decorate with fun sprinkles, candy flowers, beads, charms and glitter.

The Girl Gourmet Sweets Sprinkle Art Jewelry is deliciously fun and fabulous! Featuring clear plastic reusable tube bracelets, necklaces, and pendants that can be filled with tasty colorful candy crystals and sprinkles.

You can find all of the Girl Gourmet candy makers at major retailers, and online at Amazon.com and at the Jakks-Pacific website.

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The Wiggles are big on getting children up and moving, so Wiggletime has  a “take a break” feature that encourages children to get up an wiggle every twenty minutes.

“We wanted to take our Wiggles Fan Club to another level. We just needed to make sure we were going to be able to provide children with an environment that was exciting, fun, educational and safe. WiggleTime.com certainly has all of the right ingredients to provide children with a fantastic Wiggles experience”

- Anthony Field (BlueWiggle).

Your children can visit some of their favorite Wiggle destinations including Wigglehouse, Dorothy’s House, Wag’s Kennel, Captain Feathersword’s SS Feathersword, or Henry’s Underwater World, while they’re learning and having fun.

Wiggletime.com has different levels of membership from free, to monthly and yearly subscriptions, visit the website to sign up and for membership details.

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“How To Build a Gingerbread House” is a great guide to help you along the way. The book contains step-by-step instructions, easy recipes and over 200 color photographs to help you complete your gingerbread house project from start to finish.

The best part is, all you need to get started are everyday grocery store ingredients and basic kitchen equipment. The author, Christina Banner, was winner of the National Gingerbread House Competition and Food Network’s Gingerbread Challenge, so she knows her gingerbread!

You can find more information about gingerbread house building and her book at Christina’s website GingerbreadBuilding.com. She also has a recipe for a tree and greenery recipe for your gingerbread house, and gingerbread house making tips.

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Each character comes with 3 small “Kimochis™” – or feelings inside a special pocket. The small Kimochis have  feeling (happy, sad, silly,brave…) printed on one side, and a corresponding facial expression on the other. Each one also comes with a How-To Use Kimochis™ Feel Guide with easy fun lessons developed by nationally renowned child communication expert Ellen Pritchard Dodge M.ED.CCC-SLP.

The Kimochis™ characters will also have books, animation and an online world with educational content and activities that we will be launching in December.

If you’d like more information about these adorable plush toys with feelings, or to check out their educational content starting in December, check out the Kimochis website.

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On behalf of Universal Home Entertainment I have a Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas DVD prize pack to giveaway here at Play Library. The prize pack will includes the DVD , “Curious George Christmas Countdown” book, CD soundtrack, and a “Curious George Live” ticket voucher. The prize pack would make a wonderful holiday gift!

Here’s a fun little song from the new Curious George DVD.

So how can you win the new Curious George A Very Monkey Christmas DVD and the rest of the prize pack? Here are the rules:

• To be entered to win just leave a comment letting us know your favorite feature on the Curious George website.
• You can get bonus entries by posting about the contest on your own blog, tweeting about the giveaway (tweet it to @Linetteg) or becoming a fan of Curious George on Facebook, but you need to leave an additional comment to let us know which bonus entries you did to get credit for them.
• The contest is open to US residents only.
• The contest will end at midnight EST on November 30th.
• The winner will be selected from a random draw at the end of the contest, and will be notified by email, they winner will also be posted here at Play Library after the contest ends.

Good luck!

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I have a soft spot for holiday movies, so I can see this one getting added to my collection. You can find the new DVD at most major retailers and online at Amazon.com.

In conjunction with the DVD release, Universal is running an “All I Want This Holiday” $100,000 instant win game, where one lucky grand prize winner will get $100,000 to create their own “Family Fund.”

This can mean investing in a college tuition fund, paying for a new home or even taking a year off to spend more time with the kids. Also, more than 200 additional prizes will be awarded, including HDTVs, Netbooks, Blu-ray™ players and more. Enter and see official rules here at the Universal Studious Curious George Instant Win Website.

Stay tuned! I’ll be back with a Curious George Christmas prize pack giveaway here at Play Library, courtesy of Universal Home Entertainment, in the next day or two!

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I want to say a huge thank you to myWallaby for sponsoring the contest, and for letting me review such a fun product.

Now lets get to the winner! The winner was chosen by Random.org. Congratulations to Heather S who says:

I adore the Sunrise Surprise carrier, and that the strap is adjustable! Yay!

Thank you Heather for participating in the contest! I’ll be contacting you in the next day or so to find out where to send the myWallaby Doll Carrier.

Thank you to everyone who participated! I have a couple more giveaways coming up in the next couple weeks! So stay tuned, and subscribe to the Play Library feed if you haven’t already!

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It turned out to be a really cute family movie. It’s a little bit like the movie Home Alone, only the dog is the one home alone. The movie is a little silly funny at times, but kids will love it!

Zeus (voiced by Mario Lopez) is a former police dog who lost his bark. He ends up at the pound, and is adopted by a family looking for a good guard dog. The family discovers Zeus can’t bark, and begin to doubt their choice. When the family leaves on Christmas Eve and a pair of thieves try to break in, Zeus rediscovers his inner dog.

We definitely enjoyed the movie. It’s a cute holiday movie for the kids, I’m sure we’ll watch it again before Christmas gets here.

The Dog Who Saved Christmas will be available December 8th from major retailers, and is available now for pre-order at Amazon.com.

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