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We all love to take tons of pictures to remember our fiestas by and then share them with family and friends, and what birthday is complete without a special birthday card? To continue our Bicultural Birthday Celebrations week, we introduce to you our next generous giveaway. Our friends at Snapfish are giving away a $100 card prize pack to TWO lucky SpanglishBaby readers! You can use those $100 to create anything from photo books to puzzles for your kids toRead More ...

Feel like dancing with your kids? Then press play on the video below for a hip-shaking, samba-envigorating preview of the first two minutes of the movie Rio where Blu, the Brazilian Macaw, is still a baby bird in his native land. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Fr4mfIHnI As of today, Rio is available for your home viewing on DVD and Blu-ray.  This is a movie our kids will have a blast with and can also learn so much from with our guidance if we want toRead More ...

This whole week is dedicated to Bicultural Birthday Celebrations and group games have to be part of a good Fiesta. The games below were contribute by Jennifer Manriquez from The Bilingual Fun Company, so you know they must be a tested hit! La Araña La Araña is a fun and active group game. The game is played by a group of children ages 5 and up. The “spider” is confined between two parallel lines on the ground, drawn about 20Read More ...

Today we kick off a week-long celebration of Latino-style birthdays we´re calling:  Bicultural Birthdays Celebration. No Fiesta is complete without some outrageous gift-giving so we´ve put together four very, very generous giveaways of fantastic products for you to enter to win this week. The best way to make sure you don´t miss any of the giveaways this week (or any other, for that matter!) is to subscribe either to our reader feed or the email feed. The first giveaway comesRead More ...

Objective: Create your own bug hunt. Kids love looking for bugs in the summer time and the idea of searching is a fun, interactive activity that is perfect for language rich exposure and practice. Bug Hunt – La Búsqueda de Los Insectos • We love the summer bugs found at most Dollar Stores. Stock on the small plastic ones in a variety of colors. • Find a large, grassy area to sprinkle the bugs on the ground. • Give childrenRead More ...

Anne Geddes is known for her photography, mostly of babies and kids in flowers, with flowers, on flowers, etc. Mis primeros cinco años (My First Five Years) takes it a step further by incorporating the photographs into a baby memory book where you can keep all the little details that come with the newness of a baby – milestones, pictures, measurements, etc. Sprinkled throughout this book you’ll find Anne Geddes’ famous photographs. I will say however, that some of the photosRead More ...

Have you noticed that most of the Spanish children’s books that receive mainstream attention are for children under 4 or 5 years old? I recently became concerned that my son and all of the Spanish-speaking children I know would reach an age when Spanish literature (translated or original) would be impossible to find. Then, in a moment of great synchronicity, I happened to run into a display of Spanish chapter books at my local bookstore. ¡Entonces, existen! While it wouldRead More ...

Rio The Movie is coming out on DVD on August 2nd, as we mentioned in our 2011 Summer Family Movies post. Check out the Portuguese version of the trailer! (Spanish speakers, see how much of it you understand!) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnVyHcrSFAU Now have fun with Blu, the bilingual, bicultural bird who finds his roots during his Brazilian adventure with the following kids activities: Construct a Blu “glider” activity sheet Learn Portuguese with Blu activity sheet Math, Tic Tac Toe, and other mixedRead More ...