I’ve always liked what Putumayo already does in terms of music, so I was pretty curious to see their new products in the publishing arena. I was not disappointed at all.

We got the Latin America sticker collection which is a hardcover “book” that comes with a ton of stickers related to the geographic area being explored. The fact that the stickers are reusable makes them great for storytelling. Vanessa took to this idea very quickly and, as you can see in the photo below, she started placing different stickers on the book as she made up a story about a man who played the cuatro and a boy who fished by the river.

The book also included a colorful map showing all the countries in the area. I’ve always loved geography and I guess I’ve passed my curiosity about the world down to Vanessa because she’s pretty obsessed with maps, too! She knows that I was born in Peru, papi was born in Puerto Rico and her brother and her were born in Denver.

Because she’s learning how to read and already recognizes all the letter of the alphabet in both English and Spanish, as soon as she saw the map on Putumayo’s sticker collection package, she looked at Venezuela and asked me what country it was since it started with the same letter as her name.

We also got the Africa oversized coloring book which includes an introduction, a map and a glossary to help children identify the animals and musical instruments found on that continent.  Here’s Vanessa’s attempt at drawing her own African scene:

A great way to get kids interested in geography!

THE GIVEAWAY!

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner: Monica!

We’re giving away one copy of a Latin American coloring book one copy of the sticker book to one lucky winner.

To enter, just leave a comment telling us how you teach geography to your children.

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can get additional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

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This giveaway ends Thursday, Oct. 27 at midnight PST and is open to everyone over 18 years of age.  Check out the Giveaway Rules.

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Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is almost here, so it’s time to get ready for this festive tradition. For us the fun doesn’t end with Halloween, we have two more days of a Spanish enriching celebration to enjoy. If you´re looking to plan a party your kids will remember for years to come , Happythought’s new “Celebrate Day Of The Dead” e-book is full of fun Dia De Los Muertos fiesta planning materials. There are over 90 pages of party planning fun including recipes and craft tutorials!

Day of the Dead is a time for familia. Involving our niños in a Día de los Muertos party preparation is a great way to share and pass on our traditions. Happythought’s new e-book includes 14 beautiful and easy to make printable invitations, decorations, games,  and party favors. With so many options the fun will surely begin hours before the actual party.

“Celebrate Day Of The Dead” also includes simple recipes, fun party tips, and craft tutorials. So when you’re ready to start preparing for your fiesta all you have to do is print, cut out, and have lots of fun!

If you want more info on this party planning kit click here. 

The Giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winners: Monica, Marisol, Karina, MJ, Lindsey, Anna, and Laura !

We are giving away one copy of the “Celebrate Day Of The Dead” e-book to seven lucky winners!

To enter, all you have to do is check out the e-book here and leave us a comment telling us what is your favorite Day of the Dead tradition and how you can celebrate it with one of the activities in the party planning kit.

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can get additional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

**Please leave a separate comment for each so we can count them and avoid mistakes.

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3. Like SpanglishBaby on Facebook and join a thriving community of parents.

This giveaway ends Tuesday, October 25 at 11:59 p.m. EST and is open to everyone over 18 years of age. Check out the Giveaway Rules.

Have you downloaded your printable Calaverita yet? Go here to download and to find out how you can win $100 by sharing your kid’s Calavera personalized art! Follow all our Day of the Dead art, crafts, recipes and more here!

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One of our favorite times of the year at SpanglishBaby is here: Day of the Dead/Día de Muertos.

We love embracing it because of the deep traditions, symbolism and colors it brings to our bicultural lives. It´s an especially fun time of the year to create original crafts and activities with our kids.

This is our third year celebrating this special occasion with you. If you´re looking  for information on what Día de Muertos is and how to celebrate, then check out these posts:

How To Make Paper Flowers For Your Día de Muertos Altar

How To Make a Unique Day of the Dead Art Project and Craft

How To Bake a Traditional Pan de Muerto

Cultures Intertwined: Halloween vs Día de los Muertos

Kid Friendly Day of the Dead Activities + Crafts

How To Celebrate Dia de Muertos

Dia de los Muertos Finds Part One and Part Two

Two Día de Muertos Finds You’ll Love

Introducing Your Bilingual Children to New Cultural Traditions

Now, on our third year are dedicating a whole week to have a Day of the Dead fiesta full of crafts, recipes, stories and a our very first ever Facebook photo contest!

Click on the image to download the Calaverita

We want the SpanglishBaby niños y niñas to have some fun with us and help you win one of three prizes in our Design Your Own Calaverita and Win! Contest:

Grand Prize: $100 Walmart Giftcard,  a Celebrate Day of the Dead Party Planner E-book.

Two runners up will each win: $25 Walmart gift cards, plus a Celebrate Day of the Dead Party Planner E-book.

We really want to have fun with this one, so we´ve created a Facebook contest.

To enter, download and print this adorable Calaverita that our amiga at Viva Greetings has designed exclusively for us.

Give it to your kid(s) and let them get creative and have fun with it. They can paint, color, glitter and sparkle-it, cut and paste to it, whatever they like!

Take a picture of their creation, or scan it, and then go to our Facebook Photo Contest page here to upload.

Submit your Calavera between today, October 17 through October 23.   As soon as voting starts on October 24 make sure you to let all your friends know to vote for your kid´s calaverita. They can vote once per day until October 30.

A huge Gracias to Carla from Viva Greetings for creating the calavera design for us. We´re so excited we can now find her awesome cards and designs at Target! Check out the Viva Greetings Facebook page for details and fun cositas!

Make sure you´re subscribed to our email list so you don´t miss any of the fun and unique Day of the Dead things we´ll be sharing all week long!

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Check out Nicole’s pictures and cherry cobbler video where she shows us how easy these were to make using the new PAM. Just click on the links below, and then scroll down to enter the giveaway:

Easy and Delicious Lasagna Cups

Easy Cherry Cobbler

The Giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winners: Erin, Carmen, Delia, McKim,and Annette!

To help you try out these recipes, or create your own, we are giving away one PAM toolkit to five lucky winners!

The toolkit will include:

–PAM branded spatula

–PAM branded oven mitt, Pyrex dish (13” x 9”)

–12-cup muffin tin

–one can of the new and improved PAM

–PAM related literature and recipes.

To enter, all you have to do is tell us what recipe you plan to try out with Pam. 

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can get additional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

**Please leave a separate comment for each so we can count them and avoid mistakes.

1. Subscribe to receive blog updates and subscriber-only content via email and leave us an extra comment letting us know you did so or that you’re already a subscriber. Make sure to leave the comment using the same email you subscribed with.

2. Follow us on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway including a link to the post, plus a mention @SpanglishBaby and #PAMPerfection

Ex: I want to win 1 of these 5 PAM Toolkits @SpanglishBaby to try the new & improved PAM. Enter here: http://su.pr/5yhCnE #PAMPerfection

Copy the link to the tweet in an additional comment on the giveaway’s post.

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This giveaway ends Sunday, October 23 at 11:59 p.m. PST and is open to everyone with a U.S. mailing address over 18 years of age. Check out the Giveaway Rules.

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With this upcoming holiday season we are all getting our phones and cameras ready to capture our little ones special moments. To make things a bit easier for us parents, Smilebox has created a simple way for us to share all of those special moments with our loved ones. Smile box is an online photo and video sharing tool and app which add’s new design and templates every week.

Check out the super cute and animated ecard my girl and I created together to remember a special day with her special amigo. Very easy to upload pictures from our desktop and Facebook and then even easier to share online!

We’ll be set to send creative thank you notes, invitations, greeting cards and much more. Each creation can be customized with our own pictures and even with songs that we can upload from our iTunes! And if you’re in a rush the new Smilebox app will include the “Wrap-Up” feature which creates and e-mails a collage of photos from the day, taken from your phone, to you with just one click. So whether we have the time to play around with this great app or not, we will be able to share our special moments with our loved ones. 

The Giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner: Rosie!

We are giving away one year of Smilebox premium service ($40 value) to one lucky winner.

To enter, all you have to do is leave us a comment telling us what event you´re looking forward to sharing with the Smilebox app. 

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can get additional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

**Please leave a separate comment for each so we can count them and avoid mistakes.

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This giveaway ends Thrusday, October 20 at 11:59 p.m. EST and is open to everyone with a U.S. mailing address over 18 years of age. Check out the Giveaway Rules.

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My daughter just experienced her first Scholastic Book Fair at school. I volunteered to work the fair a couple of days, not only because I wanted to help, but also because I wanted to see her in action. And, it was just as I expected, she was in book heaven! I helped her, and her little friends, fill out her wish list and a few days later we went back to the fair and got her a couple of the books on her list.

Since she had a few more books on there, I was really happy to find out that Scholastic Book Clubs has joined forces with Kellogg to make it easy to get free books. All you have to do is to purchase 2 participating Kellogg’s products exclusively sold at Walmart and redeem the special codes found inside each box online to download a $5 coupon. You can use the coupon for books or other products through Scholastic Book Clubs or at the Scholastic store online.

It’s that easy!

Please note that this special offer is available until July of next year (all codes must be entered by 7/1/12), so you have plenty of chances of growing your children’s library for virtually nothing.

The Giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner:Monica!

To give you a head start, we’re giving away one nifty package to one lucky winner, which includes several participating Kellogg’s products, four Scholastic books (including two picture books and two chapter books) and a $15 Walmart gift card, so you can get even more participating products.

To enter, all you have to do is leave us a comment telling us about your “book nook” at home or where you like to read with your kids. 

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can get additional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

**Please leave a separate comment for each so we can count them and avoid mistakes.

1. Subscribe to receive blog updates and subscriber-only content via email and leave us an extra comment letting us know you did so or that you’re already a subscriber. Make sure to leave the comment using the same email you subscribed with.

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3. Like SpanglishBaby on Facebook and join a thriving community of parents.

This giveaway ends Friday, October 14 at 11:59 p.m. EST and is open to everyone with a U.S. mailing address over 18 years of age. Check out the Giveaway Rules.

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The Buddies have been there to spread the holiday cheer before, and now they’re back! Fall is here and it’s time for the festivities to begin. So to get our kids into the Halloween mood check out the Buddies in their new movie Spooky Buddies.This time these adorable talking puppies are taking us on a Halloween-themed adventure through a haunted mansion. Rosebud, B-Dawg, Buddah, Budderball, and Mudbud go across town and into a spooky mansion where something mysterious is going on. After meeting a new ghostly friend their Halloween fun begins.

The Spooky Buddies are now available on Disney  Blue-ray/DVD/Movie Download.

Check out this clip of the Buddies in action in their new movie and then click on the link below to enter to win a copy of the movie.

The Giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner: Teressa!

We’re giving away a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack of Spooky Buddies to one lucky winner! To enter just leave us a comment telling us who you, or your kid’s, favorite Buddy is.

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can getadditional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

**Please leave a separate comment for each so we can count them and avoid mistakes.

1. Subscribe to receive blog updates and subscriber-only content via email and leave us an extra comment letting us know you did so or that you’re already a subscriber. Make sure to leave the comment using the same email you subscribed with.

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This giveaway ends Thursday, September 29 at midnight PST and is open to everyone with a U.S. mailing address over 18 years of age. Check out the Giveaway Rules.

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Some of our young ones haven’t gotten to see this movie because it has been in the Disney vault since 2004, but the time has finally come! Disney is releasing “The Lion King” from the vault, and it’s coming back with a bang. This Friday, September 16, the all new 3D version of “The Lion King” will hit theaters for the first time ever, and only for two weeks.

Even if you used to see this movie on repeat with your older kids, you can be sure it will be a new experience for the whole family. Re-live the adventures of the young cub Simba, who “just can’t wait to be king,” and his two hilarious friends Timon and Pumbaa who help him along the way. This new 3D format of the all-time favorite will captivate you again with it’s epic  settings, award winning music, and lovable characters.

Then on October 4  you’ll have the chance to take this classic home with you on Disney Blu-ray and Blue-ray 3D. Your kids will be able to enjoy the Spanish version of The Lion King as well, since it is always an option with Disney movies. And of course, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of the DVD to take home with you!

And if you want some activity and coloring Lion King printables, download them here. 

Here’s a little taste of the Lion King en español for you to share with your kids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpNghXM_-g

The Giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winners: Monica and wcc !

We’re giving away a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack of the The Lion King to TWO lucky winners! To enter just leave us a comment telling us who your kids (or your) favorite Lion King character is. 

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can get additional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

**Please leave a separate comment for each so we can count them and avoid mistakes.

1. Subscribe to receive blog updates and subscriber-only content via email and leave us an extra comment letting us know you did so or that you’re already a subscriber. Make sure to leave the comment using the same email you subscribed with.

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Bath time in our home has definitely taken shape since the early days of when we first came home from the hospital. I was the very nervous mami that bought and returned about six different tubs the first couple months of our baby’s life. In addition, my anxiety was so intense that the idea of speaking in Spanish to my bebita was beginning to dwindle away, which totally broke my heart. After receiving a little pep talk from my brother-in-law about how to bathe baby I gained a little confidence.

I will never forget the evening when I promised myself to really try and relax during bath time. I held Sabrina in my arms, close to my chest and whispered, “Okay Sabrina, lo vamos intentar de nuevo (Okay Sabrina, we are going to try this again).” I promised myself to take deep breaths and sing songs in Spanish while I dabbed her with the little bath towel. It worked! When I took her out of the bath and into the warm towel I sat down and she looked into my eyes and began to coo as if she were saying, ”Gracias mami! Me encanto esta vez!/Thank you, mami. I loved it this time.”

As our bebita has grown out of her newborn tub we have found new ways to make bath time fun. I quickly learned that bath time toys needed to be rotated in and out in order to maintain her interest. We have run the gamut of items we have introduced during bath time. We have had traditional bath toys that swim with a simple wind to mega block boats and tractors.

As I mentioned, at one point, I felt that our idea of only speaking in Spanish was fading due to the challenge of balancing all of the elements involved with parenthood. I decided that I would try integrating Spanish during specific routines in our day-to-day lives, like bath time.  I added the other daily routines once I felt that the one we were working on was in place. As I continued to rotate age appropriate toys (such as alphabet letters, water proof books, mega blocks, containers to put things in and open and close) I realized that the different items helped with diversifying and continuing my use of Spanish during bath time. Eventually, Spanish took over all of our daily routines. We are now 98% of the time speaking in Spanish to our bebita.

Yes, we also still sing during bath time, but most importantly bathing our bebita is an important part of our bedtime routine that also involves playing, chasing, reading, lots of laughs, and eventually a baby that is ready to sleep.

Bathtime has now not only become fun time and a time for Spanish, it is another important bonding time with my baby that often brings joy. JOHNSON’S is “treasuring everyday joy” with a contest for parents to share our a photo of our sweetest bonding moment with our baby to have the chance to win the Grand Prize of a $25,000 scholarship. Just visit the JOHNSON’S Facebook page to upload your photo and enter. 

The Giveaway!

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner: Melissa !

JOHNSON’S is celebrating their new Desitin Soothing Rash Bath Treatment for a calming baby bath to soothe and relieve their delicate diaper area.  The fragrance-free bath is made of a colloidal oatmeal and skin conditioning aloe and vitamin E that’s gentle enough for baby’s sensitive skin.

We are giving away one gift set of Desitin and JOHNSON’S core baby products (as pictured), including the new Desitin Soothing Rash Bath Treatment, to a winner.

All you have to do to enter is share with us your biggest tip to make baby’s bathtime, fun time.  Here are some techniques from JOHNSON’S to get you inspired!

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can get additional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

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2. Follow us on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway including a link to the post, a mention of @SpanglishBaby and use the hashtag #BabyBathtimeFun. Copy the link to the tweet in an additional comment on the giveaway’s post.

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This giveaway ends Wednesday, September 21 at midnight EST and is open to U.S. residents over 18 years of age.  Check out the Giveaway Rules.

Disclosure:  This giveaway and article is brought to you by JOHNSON’S and Latina Bloggers Connect

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Today is the last day of giveaway-fun during this Back to {Bilingual} School special week.  No back to school season is complete without some good shopping and what best than what you need and want on top-name brands but up to 90% off  retail price?

You can find that by visiting Totsy.com and signing up to receive daily offers from this online private-sale site dedicated to offering apparel, gear, accessories and more for moms, kids and families.

I’ve been a member for a while and admit that I am sometimes cautious about opening their emails because I usually find something in there that I need, ok...that I want.  So, after I indulge, I pass on the guilty pleasure to my friends by inviting them to join Totsy and when that friend makes their first purchase I can receive $15 in Totsy credits and so can you! Not only will you receive the credit when your friend makes the first purchase, but a tree will be planted in their child’s honor–so far, they’ve planted over 25,000 trees in Peru!

Totsy is inviting you to join and check them out by hosting a giveaway of TedCo Educational Toys, valued at $52, plus a Disney book (pictured above, styles may vary.)

THE GIVEAWAY!

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner: Kelly T !

Totsy has put together a prize pack valued at $52 with TedCo Educational Toys and a Disney book (you must be a registered member to receive the prize. Click here to join so you don´t miss out!)

To enter just visit Totsy and tell us which of the sales they have going on right now is your favorite.

That’s all you have to do to enter this giveaway. If you want to up your chances at winning, then this is how you can get additional entries (only after you’ve completed the step above):

**Please leave a separate comment for each so we can count them and avoid mistakes.

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This giveaway ends Friday, September 16 at midnight EST and is open to U.S. residents over 18 years of age.  Check out the Giveaway Rules.

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