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Here's a chance to grab a free copy of "Dora's World Adventure" PC game for your children.
All you need to do is register for updates about Nickelodeon video downloads and other Nick Jr. offers. After you register, you will receive a link in your e-mail to download this cute free game.
Remember, with freebies we post on Fun 4 The Children, if you don't want to fill up your main e-mail address with the offers we post, you can always get another free e-mail address through Gmail or Yahoo.
It's the season for gifts and here is one from Jitterbug. For a limited time, you can get free downloads of 7 original holiday songs from artists on Jitterbug.
Available songs include:
Wake Up by The Hipwaders
Trim The Tree by Brady Rymer
Make Santa Happy by Didi Pop
Fa And A La by Gustafer Yellowgold
Holidays by Princess Katie & Racer Steve
December Nights by Rock Daddy Rock
Hanukkah All Over The World by David Tobocman
You can listen to the songs online and then download the original songs to your mp3 player/iPhone/iPod, making a great addition to your children's music. Click on the Free Jitterbug Holiday Music to listen and download your songs.
NORAD is the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the United States and Canada. For more than 50 years, NORAD has tracked Santa’s Christmas Eve flight by using four high-tech systems – radar, satellites, Santa Cams and fighter jets.
By having high-speed digital cameras pre-positioned at many locations around the world only on Christmas Eve they are able to capture images and videos of Santa and his reindeer as they make their journey around the world.
Your children will enjoy seeing Santa's journey on the NORAD Tracks Santa homepage and they can also track his flight in Google Earth.
Make sure you visit the Kids' Countdown Village discover new surprises and join in on the fun!
Back for 2009 is the ever popular, ever very funny Elf Yourself. Turn your children or your whole family into dancing elves! Always a fun and popular post on Fun 4 The Children, we had a great time with this last year and this year they have added a couple new features.
Create your own video by uploading a photo of your child (or anyone you would like) to see them get transform into a dancing elf, complete with music and an optional message.
To get started, you will upload a photo of who you want to star in the video. Be advised, it's easier to use photos with closeups of the head and face. After you upload your photo you will get to adjust the head size and rotate the photo. From their, you will position the mouth in the photo.
When your finished positioning the mouth, you will have a choice to upload up to four more photos, to have all your family members dance together or proceed with your original photo.
You next decision is to choose a dance. There are five dance choices for you to choose from (Hip Hop, Singing, Disco, Classic, and Country).
That's it, you finished. You will have the option of e-mailing your video to friends and loved ones. You can also embed your videos into any websites or blogs you may publish or share them through MySpace, Facebook and other sites. They are also offering products for you to purchase from your videos and an option to download your videos for a small fee.
Parents, this free software can help your children master their spelling or vocabulary words fast.
It will help help them practice their spelling words by quizzing them on their spelling words using audio prompts. Either yourself or your child can input the words for each list making a sound recording of each word and then SpellQuizzer quizzes them on each word correcting them when they make a mistake.
System Requirements for this software: Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, ME or 98.
The Free "SpellQuizzer" software download is available from Giveaway of the Day and is only available for for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher). As of this posting, the time left for this download is: 9 hours 41 minutes.
After you download the software you will Unzip the package you've downloaded, and carefully read the instructions which you can find in the readme.txt file (included with the downloads). If you don't have software to unzip the download do a Google search for CAM UnZip or ZIP Reader, both are free.
As of this posting, the below image shows the Free "SpellQuizzer" software download image but it will change when the time expires. The good news is that if you have arrived at the offer after it has expired there will be a new offer listed in the image box that you may be helpful to you or your children.
Anyone with children who are fans of Disney's The Princess & the Frog? If so, I've found five (5) free music downloads.
From the Walmart website you can grab a free download of Mama Odie's "Dig a Little Deeper".
You will have to enter the code "PRINCESSFROG". Walmart Music Downloads Are Available Only in the U.S.
Visit the Walmart website to download you free Mama Odie's "Dig a Little Deeper" from Disney's The Princess & the Frog soundtrack.
"Never Knew I Needed" Video (with Animation):
The second download is from Amplified.com (also in today's LA Times) and you can download four free songs:
Down in New Orleans
Almost There
Ma Belle Evangeline
Never Knew I Needed
For this one you have to enter the code: RK4F3TM
Rules on this one state: "Offer only valid while supplies last. Download available in U.S. only. Please ensure your browser is set to accept all cookies. Wizip, WinRAR or other decompression software required to open ZIP archives."
Another fun an easy Christmas craft to make with your children. The Disney Family Fun site always creates some wonderful crafts that your children will love.
Create your own caroling trio to spread holiday cheer. Now remember (and this goes for all crafts posted on Fun 4 The Children) the video and instructions are your beginning point to show your children how they are done. The best part is letting your children use their imaginations when it comes to the further designing of these carolers.
Create your own copy of the North Pole News with a photo of your child on the cover. Your children will love seeing themselves on the cover of the North Pole News along with a cute story about your child and Santa.
You can create a story with photo in a few easy steps:
1. Upload photo and click the "Next" button.
2. You will then enter you child's name, address and gender.
3. Next enter family or friends e-mail addresses if you would like to share with them (you can enter your own e-mail address in this area if you don't want to share).
4. Lastly, provide your name, e-mail and click "Next" to create your copy of Santa's Front Page News.
When your story is created your children will also get to see Santa's Flight Tracker that show Santa's flight to your home!
For the second straight year, I am very happy to share with you Macy’s BELIEVE campaign, which builds on the great success of last year’s holiday effort to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For those not familiar with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, they give hope, strength and joy to children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work. Truly a wonderful foundation for an outstanding cause!
This year, Macy’s is adding to the spirit of “Believe” with a national Santa Tour, an honorary National Believe Day, a “Yes, Virginia” animated special, and a new TV commercial featuring Queen Latifah.
Inspired by the New York Sun’s famous “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial from 1897 and includes letter-writing “Believe Stations” in Macy’s stores across the country. For each letter received, Macy’s will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, up to $1 million.
On Friday, December 11, 2009, Macy’s will celebrate the first National Believe Day to recognize and reward acts of kindness and generosity from coast to coast. Also that day, CBS will premiere a new original animated special called, “Yes, Virginia.” on Friday, December 11, at 8 p.m. ET.
While there, don't forget to enter the "Tell Us Why You Believe" contest to win a trip for four to New York City, for the Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2010. To enter just tell Macy’s WHY YOU BELIEVE.
This year they have also added a wonderful resource for schools and teachers by providing an online toolkit that allows teachers and schools to use “Believe” as a writing lesson or activity during the holiday season. The toolkit includes a Santa letter template, coloring sheet and “I Believe” bookmark cut-out and can be downloaded at Macy's BELIEVE.
Macy's Gift Card Giveaway
A big thank you to M80 on behalf of Macy’s and in the spirit of giving, I have two $25 gift card to Macy's to give away to two lucky readers of the Fun 4 The Children blog.
MAIN ENTRY:
Leave a comment telling me one item on your Christmas list. This is your first and main entry, it's a must in order to include any other bonus entries!
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5. Five Extra Entries if you blog about this giveaway with a link back to this post and a link to the Macy's BELIEVE campaign.
Unlimited Extra Entries
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This giveaway is open to residents of the United States only, 18 or older and will end at 11:59 PM EST on December 18, 2009. The winners will be selected at random and the entries verified. The winners will then have 48 hours to claim their giveaway prize. If the winner does not claim their prize within their 48 hour period, a new winner will be chosen. Prize will be provided and shipped directly by M80 Public Relations on behalf of Macy’s.
You must leave an e-mail address (or have it available in a profile) so that I can contact you if you are the winner.
Be advised, comments are moderated.
** We did not receive any incentives from M80 Public Relations or Macy's for writing this post. I big thank you to M80 Public Relations on behalf of Macy’s for generously provided the gift cards for this contest. **
WINNERS Announced:
Thank you to all that entered. I wish I had gift cards to give to all of you. Here are the two winners:
Deanna G. and JC
I've sent an e-mail to both of you and you will have 48 four hours to respond (must reply by 12:25 PM Monday 12/21/09). If I don't receive a reply, another winner (or two) will be selected.
Plenty of Christmas elves and a couple of pictures of Santa.
Click on the above link and wait for the coloring book to download in PDF format. You can then print single pages or the whole coloring book by clicking on the image of the printer in the top left corner of the coloring book.
Back for 2009 is Santa's Personalized Video Message from Disney Family.com.
We had a great time with this last year and I'm happy to see that it is available again.
With the Santa's Personalized Video Message, you get to put your child's name on Santa's nice list and then receive a personalized video message from Santa!! From past experiences I can tell you that your children will get a great thrill seeing themselves on the video.
To get started, visit Santa's Personalized Video Message on the family.com website. You will have to register or log in and then click on "Create your video now".
Next you will enter your child's first name and upload a photo of them. After your photo uploads you will then get to customize the image to fit.
Click on "Generate Video" and you personalized video will be ready.
When you finish your video you will get to share it with family and friends through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, a blog, e-mail or just copy the link and save it for future visits.
Enjoy this fun list of Santa Claus along with his sleigh, reindeer, gifts and more.
As always, feel free to share your finished work with us and if we have any artist, please feel free to e-mail your pictures to us and we will add them to Fun 4 The Children.
