Quarto Holiday Gift Ideas For Kids Plus Giveaway

I love seeing the new lists of books Quarto Knows comes out with and I love that we get to test and try out a lot of the new Quarto Knows products. Quarto Knows not only has amazing paper back and hard cover books; they also have a wide variety of activity kits with books included. We got to test out Marvels Secret Message Lab, Make Your Own Disney Princess Lip Balm, Spa Soaps Forest Friends, Make Your Own Toy Story Soaps, All Natural Spa Soaps, SmartLab Toys Crazy Drinks Science, SmartLab Toys Shimmering Balm Science, SmartLab Toys All Natural Balm Boutique and SmartLab Toys Extreme Secret Formula.

Young Scientist Challenge Incorporates STEM From Discovery Education and 3M

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Students from all over the world apply themselves year round to be the best in their respective studies. Discovery Education and 3M aim to reward those students who study science especially STEM related scientific studies.

What is STEM? STEM EDUCATION is a new movement in American Education to help teachers and their students understand how the academic disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics impact their world and prepare them for the workforce of tomorrow.

STEM is multi-discipline based, incorporating the integration of other disciplinary knowledge into a new whole. Technology helps us communicate; Math is the language; Science and Engineering are the processes for thinking; all this leads to Innovation. Learning in a STEM environment compels students to understand issues, distill problems, and comprehend processes that lead to innovative solutions. They can learn to lead the way to innovation; learning today to make a better tomorrow.

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital content for K-12, transforming teaching and learning with award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development, and the largest professional learning community of its kind.

Science Fun For The Budding Little Scientist

During the holidays I am always searching for the best gifts for my kids. Each one of my children has a different personality type, different likes and very few similar interests. When I find a gift that is perfect for both my boys I am always super excited especially when that gift is also an educational gift. I feel like so many times I have wasted money when I should have bought things we needed or not bought anything at all. With My First Lab I am confident that my kids will love their gift and I as a mom am super satisfied to see them utilizing a toy/learning tool.

Geomatrix The Perfect Educational Gift For Kids

The only thing better than finding a toy your kids absolutely love and will actually get use out of, is when that toy happens to be STEM approved toy. California Creattions the creators of Geomatrix, The Magnetic Art of Building has become the newest toy to hit our household. Both boys, ages 6 and 10 years old spend hours at a time building with these. Whether they are making puppy dogs, trucks or just making silly things, it's always a great thing to see them being constructive and using their imaginations.

Storming into Giveaways Giveaway Hop

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In The Know With JoJo is so excited to be a part of this hop and to bring you a amazing prize. One winner will receive a SmartMax Start+, SmartMax My First Animal Train or My First Safari Animals. Winners choice of one of these three items US only! Check out our review here and enter below:

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Get Jungle Fever With SmartMax USA 's New My First Animal Train and My First Safari Animals Plus Giveaway

In The Know With JoJo received samples for free to facilitate this review and giveaway all opinions are 100 percent my own.

Bring jungle fun to your kids with SmartMax USA's newest  My First line. The SmartMax My First Animal Train and My First Safari Animals will bring the jungle to your living room. Kids create and build a train complete with animals and conductor with the SmartMax My First Animal Train. With SmartMax My First Safari Animals children construct their favorite safari animals and mix and match animals to make crazy combinations. A giraffe, crocodile, lion elephant, rhino and hippo are included in the Smart Max My First Safari Animals. The My First Line teaches kids STEM and STEAM and allows then to journey into the magical world of magnetism.

Young Scientists Four New Funtastic Robotics Kits Review

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The Young Scientists Club has always been a favorite for gifts and homeschool activities for my family. They have gifts that are not only super engaging and fun for children but are full of STEM building learning activities. If you are buying a gift anyway why not buy a gift that teaches!

Little Passports Valentine's Day Gift Guide Review and Giveaway!

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Does your kids love hands on activity's as much as mine does? If so The Little Passports SWEET sale is the perfect sale to buy gifts this Valentine's Day for your little one! They have so many different subscription and one time monthly gift options that you are sure to find the perfect box for your little one.

My kids enjoy hands on activities. Our kit this month was a Forensic Science Kit. They had activities like A Very Berry DNA Extraction where you use berries to take fingerprints. They also included a lot about different spatter patterns which is easy to do with kids. I knew they would love getting to do the fingerprinting activity. I loved that they were learning about forensics and using science. I loved that we could incorporate the activity from our subscription box into an educational activity. Little Passport's is perfect for homeschooling. Their boxes are full of STEM building activities!

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Downtown Bookworks Review and Giveaway! #Valentine's Day Gift Guide

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Downtown Bookworks has an amazing selection of gifts for any child! Their books are not just books they are mini adventures for you and your children to partake in together!  We received an amazing selection of books for review and an activity kit from Downtown Bookworks. We received three books from their Science With Stuff line, Insect-O-Mania, Fossil-Icious and Space-Tacular. We also received from the PBS Kid's line Super Simple Crafts: Sticks & Stones! I always like giving my kids a book for Valentine's Day it is a small gift and you can easily attach their Valentine's Day card to the book! Downtown Bookworks has an excellent selection of STEM , superhero and many other books!

The Science With Stuff is perfect for all ages of children. My two year old loved the Insect-O-Mania. She likes bugs and enjoyed that it came with an actual bug in resin. The bug in each book varies but each bug includes one bug in resin! I am constantly trying to teach my kids because so much is expected of little ones in school. I took the bug in resin a step further and started talking about fossils and how a lot of fossils are captured in resin that it is a great way of preserving. That way we could get into our Fossil-Icious book that also included something really cool. We actually got our own little fossils! Fossil-Icious was my oldest sons favorite as he loves fossils! My middle son likes space he was a huge fan of Space-Tacular he loved that it came with real space rocks! I even learned something from Space-Tacular! Do you know what "Space Rocks are called? I sure didn't! They are tektites!  I think kids learn so much better when they can see things and touch and feel them. My kids are all visual learners!

Our favorite out of all the products was the PBS Kids Crafts: Sticks & Stones! We live in Eastern Kentucky so we explore the great outdoors a lot. We have tons of hills, forests and just wildlife all around us. The Sticks & Stones Crafts was something we could enjoy doing as a family. We took a nature hike I gave each of my kids a bag and asked them to pick up whatever they found interesting in nature. We had rocks, leaves, sticks and pine cones mostly. Then I let the kids open their Sticks & Stones craft kit. They all seemed to enjoy painting rocks the most. There are over 50 activities though that you can choose from to do with your little ones all in this one kit!

With Downtown Bookworks you can't go wrong they have something for every little one! Make sure to check out Downtown Bookworks site and follow them on social media below:

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Kidable Adventures October/Halloween Doodle Bug Busy Bag Review! #Halloween Gift Guide

Kidable Adventures has plenty of tricks and treats up their sleeve for the Halloween Holiday as well as the coming holidays; especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. After reviewing Kidable Adventures Little Thinker's Box and loving it so much; I was so excited when I got the opportunity to review Kidable Adventures Doodle Bug Busy Bag. You can see our review of The Little Thinker's Box here.

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Kidable Adventures Little Thinker Box Review! #Toddler Gift Guide

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I have reviewed many subscription boxes over the years that I have been a blogger and am a huge fan of subscription boxes especially as gifts. I feel like they are the gift that keeps on giving instead of one huge present the kids toss away; they get a subscription that comes long after Christmas. Very few boxes wow me anymore; although I like a lot of different subscription box companies most are just that what you have come to expect a few dollars over retail value if that. Kidable Adventures wowed me this week! It wasn't necessarily that the box was jam packed with high dollar value items it was the thought and the overall feel of the box my boys received.

Dino Construction Company™–Wrecker the T-Rex Skid Loader Review! 2014 Holiday Gift Guide!

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Do your kids enjoy digging in the dirt and dinosaurs? My sons are huge fans of both as most little boys are so when we got the chance to try out the Educational Insights Dino Construction Company™–Wrecker the T-Rex Skid Loader the boys were really excited! After the first time mine played with Wrecker I knew we would need two so I purchased the Dino Construction Company™–Spike the Ankylosaurus Steam Roller for Gavin; they both really enjoy them to this day! They are very durable and have won 2 very prestigious toy awards. Dino Construction Company™–Wrecker the T-Rex Skid Loader won the Toy of the Year Award 2014 and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award Gold Seal. That is why I love Educational Insights products they are all so durable and stand out from competitors educational toys. Educational Insights is my go to for purchasing children's gifts and is a 2014 Holiday Gift Guide recommendation for the Wrecker T-Rex and any children's shopping you have in general be sure to stop by Educational Insights first!