Happy Easter!
April 8, 2007 by Kerri Aldrich
Filed under Children's Books, Children's Books (0 to 5 yrs), General Play Library Goodies, Special Occasion Books
Happy Easter to all of our Play Library readers. Is your Easter finding you bundling up in hats, gloves, and scarves, too? We have snow covered roofs here, though we were running around in shorts and t-shirts at the start of the week. Spring is sooo unpredictable. Hope those eggs don’t freeze for the egg hunts!
May hope, peace, joy, love, grace, and mercy be yours abundantly, now and always. Happy Spring!
Gift Wrapping Is For The Birds
December 19, 2006 by Lei
Filed under General Play Library Goodies
Anytime I have to get down on the floor with scissors, tape, and big huge rolls of glittery paper is cause for a lot of hand wringing and whining. I just finished wrapping a Tekno robot puppy, a Lightning McQueen remote control car, and two small race cars from the movie Cars. It was NOT fun. What do you think of gift wrapping? Take our poll (here or in the sidebar)!
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Language Little Dolls
December 10, 2005 by Lei
Filed under Children's Toys
This is Anna, a Russian-speaking doll made by Language Littles. She and her multicultural, multilingual sisters come highly recommended by Dr. Sophy, an expert on the health and mental health of children. They can all speak both English and Russian, German, Chinese, Japanese, or Spanish.
Dr. Sophy also gives the following tips on his blog for dealing with the consumer monster this holiday season:
Self Awareness: Be clear about your motivations to purchase.
Know: Messages that come from your gift-giving.
Communicate: To your child the reasons and messages discovered above, and allow them to share their feelings. …read more
